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Field Day 2004
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:02:12 +0100, Walt Davidson
wrote: There is still the recurring problem that many ops do not seem to realise that it's permissible to work DX stations for points in Field Day! Several Field Day stations did not send me a Section ... just an RST ... and others refused to work me at all, or logged me as "N3NYY"! Dude. Field day is NOT a "radio" contest. It's a beer drinking contest, and many people use it as a good excuse to get away from the XYL for the weekend. You'll find a few contesters, Walt, but most of the ops are weekend warriors.... 73, Jim KH2D |
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I have particpated in the Field Day activities of two different clubs
over the past three years, and I recall seeing many cases of cans of soda and but a single can of beer ("lite"). Some wives and whole families were at the Holland (MI) Amateur Radio Club's FD site for the whole weekend this year, and many other wives came for the Saturday evening potluck. Alan AB2OS On 06/27/04 02:56 am put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: Dude. Field day is NOT a "radio" contest. It's a beer drinking contest, and many people use it as a good excuse to get away from the XYL for the weekend. You'll find a few contesters, Walt, but most of the ops are weekend warriors.... |
I have particpated in the Field Day activities of two different clubs
over the past three years, and I recall seeing many cases of cans of soda and but a single can of beer ("lite"). Some wives and whole families were at the Holland (MI) Amateur Radio Club's FD site for the whole weekend this year, and many other wives came for the Saturday evening potluck. Alan AB2OS On 06/27/04 02:56 am put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: Dude. Field day is NOT a "radio" contest. It's a beer drinking contest, and many people use it as a good excuse to get away from the XYL for the weekend. You'll find a few contesters, Walt, but most of the ops are weekend warriors.... |
Minnie Bannister wrote:
I have particpated in the Field Day activities of two different clubs over the past three years, and I recall seeing many cases of cans of soda and but a single can of beer ("lite"). Some wives and whole families were at the Holland (MI) Amateur Radio Club's FD site for the whole weekend this year, and many other wives came for the Saturday evening potluck. You've never operated FD in Wisconsingrin While someone did find a bottle of something in the CW station, I don't think anyone drank any of it during the FD period. Might have been more exciting if we hadgrin. 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 http://www.w9wi.com |
Minnie Bannister wrote:
I have particpated in the Field Day activities of two different clubs over the past three years, and I recall seeing many cases of cans of soda and but a single can of beer ("lite"). Some wives and whole families were at the Holland (MI) Amateur Radio Club's FD site for the whole weekend this year, and many other wives came for the Saturday evening potluck. You've never operated FD in Wisconsingrin While someone did find a bottle of something in the CW station, I don't think anyone drank any of it during the FD period. Might have been more exciting if we hadgrin. 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 http://www.w9wi.com |
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.. W4ZCB |
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.. W4ZCB |
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 |
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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On 27 Jun 2004 05:26:46 -0700, (William) wrote: Jim, did are you grilling your famous chicken marinated in kikoman and boonie peppers? Nope, I'm not in Guam anymore. This year for field day we had deep fried alligator and grits. People in Florida just don't eat right...... 73, Jim KH2D Mmmmmm. I was born there. Wished I could have gotten stationed there after KH2. Would've stayed. And there's nothing wrong with a big slab of fried mush either. |
We had torrential downpours in TX. At one point I had 2 inches of running
water going through the tent. I'll not be in a tent placed there again! Had 216 contacts on PSK and RTTY. Didn't see a single contact on 10, but quite a bit on 20 and 40 along with DX on 15. --- AD5EN |
We had torrential downpours in TX. At one point I had 2 inches of running
water going through the tent. I'll not be in a tent placed there again! Had 216 contacts on PSK and RTTY. Didn't see a single contact on 10, but quite a bit on 20 and 40 along with DX on 15. --- AD5EN |
WOW on the 216 contacts on PSK and RTTY
Our GOTA station had 18 PSK QSOs (:-) But we spent a lot of time demo to newbies -- Lamont Cranston The Shadow Knows "Charles Bess" wrote in message news:rggEc.173138$3x.135638@attbi_s54... We had torrential downpours in TX. At one point I had 2 inches of running water going through the tent. I'll not be in a tent placed there again! Had 216 contacts on PSK and RTTY. Didn't see a single contact on 10, but quite a bit on 20 and 40 along with DX on 15. --- AD5EN |
WOW on the 216 contacts on PSK and RTTY
Our GOTA station had 18 PSK QSOs (:-) But we spent a lot of time demo to newbies -- Lamont Cranston The Shadow Knows "Charles Bess" wrote in message news:rggEc.173138$3x.135638@attbi_s54... We had torrential downpours in TX. At one point I had 2 inches of running water going through the tent. I'll not be in a tent placed there again! Had 216 contacts on PSK and RTTY. Didn't see a single contact on 10, but quite a bit on 20 and 40 along with DX on 15. --- AD5EN |
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