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Harold E. Johnson wrote:
Seriously, we had a great time at K4FUN. Worked a handful of DX. (unfortunately not including Walt - we have worked Walt in the past) And a whole pile of domestic QSOs. My beat up 'ol 1986 Jeep made the 130-mile round trip to Murfreesboro in one piece. And I think we may have trained a next-generation contester; 12-year-old KI4AYK made some 400+ QSOs on our SSB station. Gotta love FD... -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 The world has to be expanding instead of shrinking. It never was that far when I lived in Nashville and went to Short Mountain with the Murfreesboro club for field days.. This year we were operating from the Rutherford Co. Red Cross office on the west side of Murfreesboro. But it seems to move from year to year; last year we were at the Smyrna Airport. Either way, it's a LONG ride from Cheatham Co.! -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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Walt Davidson wrote:
Hi Doug! Glad you enjoyed FD again this year. I worked 90 FD stations on 40m and just a few on 20m. Other bands did not open to the USA. Conditions were generally very poor in comparison with recent years. Interesting observation. We felt conditions were pretty reasonable. (maybe because the *weather* was unusually pleasant, unseasonably cool & dry, not blazingly hot like it usually is on FD in Tennessee!) We actually worked a bit more DX than usual this year - two DLs, OK1CZ, RK9CWW, 4Z4TL, plus one each KH6/KL7/KP2. Admittedly that's not much of a sample size. 20 was pretty good into Russia last night. We also managed 39 contacts on 15 CW and another 73 on 15 SSB, a lot more than we did last year. 10 & 6 weren't very productive though. (though 6 was open) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
Walt Davidson wrote:
Hi Doug! Glad you enjoyed FD again this year. I worked 90 FD stations on 40m and just a few on 20m. Other bands did not open to the USA. Conditions were generally very poor in comparison with recent years. Interesting observation. We felt conditions were pretty reasonable. (maybe because the *weather* was unusually pleasant, unseasonably cool & dry, not blazingly hot like it usually is on FD in Tennessee!) We actually worked a bit more DX than usual this year - two DLs, OK1CZ, RK9CWW, 4Z4TL, plus one each KH6/KL7/KP2. Admittedly that's not much of a sample size. 20 was pretty good into Russia last night. We also managed 39 contacts on 15 CW and another 73 on 15 SSB, a lot more than we did last year. 10 & 6 weren't very productive though. (though 6 was open) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message ... Walt Davidson wrote: Hi Doug! Glad you enjoyed FD again this year. I worked 90 FD stations on 40m and just a few on 20m. Other bands did not open to the USA. Conditions were generally very poor in comparison with recent years. Interesting observation. We felt conditions were pretty reasonable. (maybe because the *weather* was unusually pleasant, unseasonably cool & dry, not blazingly hot like it usually is on FD in Tennessee!) We actually worked a bit more DX than usual this year - two DLs, OK1CZ, RK9CWW, 4Z4TL, plus one each KH6/KL7/KP2. Admittedly that's not much of a sample size. 20 was pretty good into Russia last night. We also managed 39 contacts on 15 CW and another 73 on 15 SSB, a lot more than we did last year. 10 & 6 weren't very productive though. (though 6 was open) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com For our club here in Michigan, weather was also great (a bit tool cool at night though) and propagation was noticeably better than last year although not matching what you can get at other points in the sunspot cycle. Forty meters was blazing with over 800 contacts combined voice & CW about equally split between the modes. Since we only ran 2A this year, we were able to keep this manned for the full contest time. Both 80 and 20 were also good although not up to what we got on 40. Higher HF frequencies did prove poor for us though, too. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message ... Walt Davidson wrote: Hi Doug! Glad you enjoyed FD again this year. I worked 90 FD stations on 40m and just a few on 20m. Other bands did not open to the USA. Conditions were generally very poor in comparison with recent years. Interesting observation. We felt conditions were pretty reasonable. (maybe because the *weather* was unusually pleasant, unseasonably cool & dry, not blazingly hot like it usually is on FD in Tennessee!) We actually worked a bit more DX than usual this year - two DLs, OK1CZ, RK9CWW, 4Z4TL, plus one each KH6/KL7/KP2. Admittedly that's not much of a sample size. 20 was pretty good into Russia last night. We also managed 39 contacts on 15 CW and another 73 on 15 SSB, a lot more than we did last year. 10 & 6 weren't very productive though. (though 6 was open) -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com For our club here in Michigan, weather was also great (a bit tool cool at night though) and propagation was noticeably better than last year although not matching what you can get at other points in the sunspot cycle. Forty meters was blazing with over 800 contacts combined voice & CW about equally split between the modes. Since we only ran 2A this year, we were able to keep this manned for the full contest time. Both 80 and 20 were also good although not up to what we got on 40. Higher HF frequencies did prove poor for us though, too. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
Our GOTA station managed 220 QSO's for 271 points -- no biggie -- but all
ops were inexperienced non HFers including several kids and "civilians" Also our GOTA had 44 PSK31 QSO's The rest were Phone on 40M, 20M, and 15M We built a 32 foot vertical with four elavated radials -- worked back to the east coast on 40M and used it as a 3/4 vertical on 15M Vertical radiator was three swimming pool poles held together with hose clamps. 20M antenna was a Cushcraft R8. 10M was zilch out here in the west One of the main stations worked over 70 6M QSO's Other main stations are being tallied although I heard one CW station was at the 980 QSO point Located at an EOC in Carlsbad Ca Thanks to all for the advice on PSK31 FD operation and to Mike for the "No VHF at the GOTA" input We gave our 6M antenna to a main VHF station. -- Lamont Cranston The Shadow Knows |
Our GOTA station managed 220 QSO's for 271 points -- no biggie -- but all
ops were inexperienced non HFers including several kids and "civilians" Also our GOTA had 44 PSK31 QSO's The rest were Phone on 40M, 20M, and 15M We built a 32 foot vertical with four elavated radials -- worked back to the east coast on 40M and used it as a 3/4 vertical on 15M Vertical radiator was three swimming pool poles held together with hose clamps. 20M antenna was a Cushcraft R8. 10M was zilch out here in the west One of the main stations worked over 70 6M QSO's Other main stations are being tallied although I heard one CW station was at the 980 QSO point Located at an EOC in Carlsbad Ca Thanks to all for the advice on PSK31 FD operation and to Mike for the "No VHF at the GOTA" input We gave our 6M antenna to a main VHF station. -- Lamont Cranston The Shadow Knows |
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