CCC has secured a professional storage facility, thanks to PJ2MI, on the island of Curacao. We have literally half of a semi, in a highly secure and professionally-administered location. W9EFL, Cindy, W0CG, and K8RF saw the place and will vouch for its quality. These items were hauled to the island by W0CG and Cindy in July, and by the members of the PJ2C team in October of 1999. More equipment was added by W0CG and W9EFL on 15 July 2000. Given the extreme difficulty of getting equipment processed through Customs, and the high duties charged, it makes sense to leave all this stuff on the island.

Our goal is to keep adding to this stash. It is there whenever a CCC group wants to do an operation on Curacao, large or small. Each trip, we will add more gear. Eventually, when we buy an operating location in the Caribbean, these materials can be moved to that location en masse.

W0CG and PJ2MI are the only people with signature authority to access the storage at present.

The storage facility can receive shipments -- thus we could ship anything, even tower sections to our "semi" and have them placed in secure storage without any of us being there. They would be there waiting when we arrived for the next operation.

Rent is $105.30 USD/month. Each of W8AV, K4LT, WA9S, W0NB, W0CG, W9EFL, N4OKX, K8RF, N8LGP, W8TK, and W9VA are contributing $10/month to support our storage costs.

(The detail in the list below may seem a little bit silly, but it will be a great help when we plan future ventures.)

Click on a link below to go straight to that category. Items in black were placed in storage on November 2, 1999. Other colors will be used for items stored in the future.

| Antennas | Antenna Accessories and Hardware | Coax, Rotor Cable, and Coax Connectors | Rope and Twine | AC Power Items | Computer-Related | Station Components | Grounding Supplies | Tools | Miscellaneous |

Antennas

Cush-Craft XM-10G five element 10 meter monobander, new, in unopened box

Cush-Craft A-3S triband yagi

Cush-Craft A-3WS 12/17 trap yagi, new, in unopened box

Cush-Craft 40-2CD 40 meter yagi  + feedline and balun, orange bag of boom to mast clamps taped to box, and female barrel connector, minus broken U-bolts for reflector to boom plate and two bent element tips, 1/2" by 6 ft

1 2-meter whip

5 element 10 meter monoband yagi, custom by N8LGP, in PVC tube

K8RF 80 meter vertical (minus one piece)

Butternut HF-2V, partially assembled

Butternut HF-2V, new in box (at PJ2MI's house)

Antenna Accessories and Hardware

40 ft telescoping mast - new

40 ft telescoping mast - new, top 15 feet broken off

1 HI-Q Balun and wire antenna to female PL-259

7 sets of radial wire, about 8 radials each

1 ICE beverage matching box

1 white plastic dog bone insulator

1 10 meter dipole with Radio Works balun

1 1/4 inch pulley and shackle

2 2-inch U bolts (long)

1 1-inch C-clamp

2 2-inch U bolts with flat straps

2 2-inch stainless steel U bolts, probably for reflector to boom of 40 yagi

1 bag of 8 miscellaneous pipe straps

50 tie wraps with labels

2 2 1/2 inch muffler clamps (rusty)

2 2-inch muffler clamps

1 1 1/2 inch pipe strap

1 1/4-inch rope pulley

3 - 2-inch pipe clamps

1 2-inch element clamp

24 screw eyes, 4" long

8 8-inch landscaping nails, spiral

K8RF hinged vertical base

4 1 1/2 inch plastic machined guy rings

3 miscellaneous metal guy rings

bag of hundreds of 6 inch black tie wraps

2 2-inch muffler clamps

1/4 inch pulley

Coax, Rotor Cable, and Coax Connectors

150 ft RG-8/U with one barrel

150 ft RG-8/U with one barrel

150 ft RG-8/U with one barrel

200 ft RG-8/U with one barrel

75 ft RG-8/U with one barrel

75 ft RG-8/U with one barrel

40 ft RG-8X with 2 PL-259s but no barrels

1 piece RG-8/U 3 ft long with one PL-259

1 6-position R&W Protax coax switch

1 double male coax connector

1 bag of 15 PL-259s

100 ft RG-8X with PL-259s

100 ft RG-8X with PL-259s

125 feet Belden 8-conductor rotor wire

RG-58 adapters for PL-259s (6 each)

5 new PL-159s, Amphenol, new in bags

Coax pigtail, ferrite bead balun, male connector for A-3WS

Rope and Twine

Many tie-wrapped pieces of 1/4 inch yellow polypropylene rope -- about 2200 ft total

75 ft black nylon rope on spool - 1/8 inch

rope spool for 600 ft of 1/4 inch, with about 100 ft left on it

40 ft nylon cord in a plastic bag

1 metal wire spool, empty

AC Power Items

35 ft 12-2 w/g Romex with work box containing 220 volt female receptable with pins in - . - configuration

10 ft 12-2 w/g Romex with male connector on one end looks like | . - looking at the pins

6 ft 12-2 w/g Romex with large male - u - plug and work box containing dual female 110 VAC receptacles

1 blue plastic AC work box

1 male 220 VAC range plug \ U / pins

1 220 VAC universal range plug | U | pins configuration

1 large 220 VAC range plug \ | / pin configuration

2 220 VAC small receptacles - . - pins

1 six position outlet strip, no plug

1 2 ft 12-2 w/g Romex with plug - ^ | pins

1 bag red and yellow Romex wire nuts

1 small 220 v plug (yellow) / . \ pins

1 male 110 VAC plug

6 hole outlet strip (two each)

110 VAC plug

Computer-Related

25 ft telephone wire with RJ-11 on each end

1 RJ-11 female wall plate with 2 ft of twisted pair wire

4 diskettes

computer keyboard (to add to a laptop for two-op logging)

Compaq computer keyboard

Compaq serial mouse

3 computer AC power cords

14 inch computer monitor

486-33 desktop computer with CT, Telnet, Eudora, and WinTelnetX installed and tested, two com ports and bus mouse

1 CT 9 software manual

WA8LOW bag of 25 pin to RJ adapters

1 grey mouse pad

Station Components

110 VAC muffin fan with oone broken blade

W0CG linear relay box - 110 VAC

1 K1EA LPT CW adapter and phono cable terminating in male phone and male phono plug

1 FS-1 Heil foot switch

Y stereo dual headphones adapter

1 Allen wrench for Bencher keying paddle

AD-1-1IM Heil boomset to Icom RJ-type plug for Icom

Bencher paddle with cord adapter for KC Keyer, terminates in male phono plug (765 has a built-in keyer)

AEA Keyer and Bencher paddle (W9EFL has the paddle)

Icom IC-765 transceiver (at PJ2MI's house)

Ten-Tec Centaur linear amplifier and three new spare 811As in boxes (Svetlana)

Plastic bag of plugs and adapters for IC-765

Grounding Supplies

50 ft #14 red ground wire (2 lengths of 50 ft each)

150 ft bare stranded #14 copper wire

100 ft #14 red ground wire on spool

10 ft red ground wire with round lugs

Tools

1 hammer

2 butane torch soldering kits with supplies, unopened

2 pairs of work gloves

1 big flat blade screwdriver

1 short length of solder

1 package of hacksaw blades

1 9/16" box end wrench

2 6-inch rulers

1 large roll solder

2 flat blade screwdrivers

Phillips screwdriver

1 set masonry drill bits, 3/8 inch is the largest

1 small hacksaw (4 inches of usable blade)

2 flashlights, with D batteries stored in plastic bag

Wire cutters

8" crimping tool kit, including many crimp sleeves (from K4LT)

41 piece socket set (froom K4LT)

25 foot steel tape

Set of Husky box end wrenches from 7/8" to 1.4 cm

Large blue channel lock pliers

1 small general purpose file

1 wire brush, standard size

Miscellaneous

1 small roll of orange safety marking tape

2 1-amp 3AG fuses

2 bags of 6 each assorted 3AG fuses

1 alligator clip lead

package of barbeque skewers

10 stick-on mailing labels

1 roll scotch tape

Yaesu world radio map

1 roll blue marking tape

2 packages of 500 each 3 x 5 index cards

6 boxes assorted 3AG fuses

100 miscellaneous tie wraps

1 bag miscellaneous small hardware items

Envelope of sandpaper, new

6 rolls Scotch Super 88 electrical tape

1 bag steel wool

Red plastic box of assorted DC connectors and adapters (from K4LT)