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A 30 meter double zepp sloper antenna hangs above the vineyard where we grow wine grapes and also make our own wine each Fall. Normal CW operations are typically at 18-22 wpm, on the 40 to 12 meter bands, at 5 or 100 watts, powered from batteries, solar panels, a gas generator or the power grid.

The local climate is nearly perfect for our Martini-Olmo 66 Chardonnay grafted to 3309 Courderc root stock. Our first vintage year was 2004 and we have been producing wine ever since. The wine is fermented with a Pasteur Champagne yeast and then put on light toasted oak before being cooled to 5C [42F] during the Winter, precipitating out tartaric acid crystals. After transferring to bottles the following year, the remaining fruit sugars support a second natural fermentation in the bottle to add abit of CO2 gas. So far, 2007 has been our best vintage year producing a balanced low alcohol (11.5%) wine.

Double Zepp Tune Chart & Pattern

Vines and 2008 Fall Crush

21 Meter High Sloper Antenna Tree and Cellar Shack Operating Position

Recent Holiday DXpeditions to France and Hawaii

N6VNO Modified K5 Chinese PR Army Key & KK2 American Morse Equipment Paddle

NA5N - 4 Day Solar-Geomagnetic Storm & Storm Indexes

N6VNO Series & Parallel Resonant Absorption Wave Meters

N6VNO Pin Collection (partial)