Subject: Field Day Plans?
From: "Ryan, KC8PMX"
Date: 6/24/2004 11:20 AM Central Standard Time
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Will be running KC8PMX on 50Mhz-450Mhz bands.
I was thinking a shorter call would help, but I ran those phonetics thru
my mind a couple times, and "PAPA MIKE X-RAY" seems to me to be rather
prominent.
Decided to run on my own as a
matter of passive resistance to the local club's field day planner. Field
day is supposed to be an emergency preparedness scenario, and there is
nothing close to that from what I see of the plans locally here.
How's that, Ryan...??? Too much of the picnic-in-the-park thing?
Not sure which classification I will be running yet, but will be using 3
transmitters, on battery power, occasionally charged by a vehicle's
electrical system, but the batteries won't be located in the vehicle. And I
will be operating from our fire department's parking lot of which I am a
member of.
I had hoped to not be working this weekend, however I'm stuck.
Quite a few years ago I had built a small wind generator and had it on the
roof of the barracks I was in. It charged two marine (no pun intended) deep
cycle trolling motor batteries and those in turn ran my ICOM IC-730.
I ran it at 35-50 watts CW and I ran out beofre the batteries did!
I've been wanting to build another, and perhaps I will before next Field
Day.
73
Steve, K4YZ