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Field Day?
On Jun 22, 10:52?pm, wrote:
This year I'll be going out with a club group, running 3A. This FD is part readiness-exercise, part training, part publicity, part contest, and part social event. The first 100 points are already in the log. Results of the above operation: We had 3 HF stations on the air, and one VHF/UHF. HF rigs were all 100-watt-class middle-of-the-line transceivers, with various dipole antennas (OCF and G5RVs). N3FJP computer logging with networked computers at each setup. We made 470 CW and 342 'phone QSOs, with just one HF station on CW vs. two HF and one VHF/UHF on 'phone. Bonus points for 100% emergency power, "natural" power, W1AW message, SM message, information table, public location, publicity, and electronic log submittal. Great wx, lots of new and old friends, good food and lots of good times. Some folks dropped by for a few minutes, some were there beginning to end, and everything in between. Setup and takedown were done in record time due to good planning and experience. Only 368 days till the next one! 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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Field Day?
Jim N2EY wrote:
This year I'll be going out with a club group, running 3A. This FD is part readiness-exercise, part training, part publicity, part contest, and part social event. The first 100 points are already in the log. Results of the above operation: We had 3 HF stations on the air, and one VHF/UHF. HF rigs were all 100-watt-class middle-of-the-line transceivers, with various dipole antennas (OCF and G5RVs). N3FJP computer logging with networked computers at each setup. We made 470 CW and 342 'phone QSOs, with just one HF station on CW vs. two HF and one VHF/UHF on 'phone. Bonus points for 100% emergency power, "natural" power, W1AW message, SM message, information table, public location, publicity, and electronic log submittal. Great wx, lots of new and old friends, good food and lots of good times. Some folks dropped by for a few minutes, some were there beginning to end, and everything in between. Setup and takedown were done in record time due to good planning and experience. Only 368 days till the next one! 73 de Jim, N2EY Considering the poor solar activity, that sounds pretty good! Though I haven't seen the exact tally for the Machias Radio Group (W7MRG) running 2A + VHF, I think we'll come pretty close to your's. We had CW & fone tents (I stayed w/ the fone tent). The CW guys forgot to bring the 80m antenna and had to make-do w/ the 40m antenna + tuner. Still, they had just over 400 Qs. The fone tally was 360 Qs. We also had the usual bonus points... emergency power, public location, info table, publicity, and W1AW message. We had some snafus w/ setup of the fone antennas so, we weren't operational until late Friday night. An interfacing problem w/ the intended DVK made us switch to Plan B. I'm glad it worked... we didn't have a Plan C! The wx here in the Pacific "Northwet" cooperated, for the most part. The rain didn't happen until we had the tents up, and then abated until *after* we were packed up for the drive home. ) Vy 73, Bryan WA7PRC |
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Field Day?
Our 1B WV K8MN operation (K8MN + N8NN) used a single HF transceiver
with TR for logging on a laptop computer. Our primary antenna was a 200' flattop which varied in height--60 feet at one end and about 40 feet at the other. It was fed with ladder line through a Johnson Matchbox. Our bonus points were for the information table, publicity, local emergency personnel visit, SM message, emergency power and electronic submittal. We made 1070 FD QSOs (957 on CW) for 2027 points. Dave K8MN |
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