[ARC5] Field Day musings...

[Dennis Monticelli]

Our little four man FD group decided >10 years back to hold a vintage FD on
our own.  We transported an R-390A and Viking II to our favorite 7000'
campsite and flailed away on CW for the entire 24 hours.  It was definitely
a lot of fun.

Dennis AE6C


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's all about keeping the QSO rate high.
>
> I brought my HT-37 and SX-111 to FD one year.  Got pretty much the same
> response,  but being a club member I did operate it for a while.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
> Sent from my Android phone
> On Jun 24, 2013 12:12 PM, "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> wrote:
>
> > So, I went out to the local fairgrounds Saturday to see what the local
> ham
> > club was doing for FD.
> >
> > I took along my AN/GRC-109, a large box of crystals, my bug and my
> > phones since it had been hinted at to me personally that I might be able
> to
> > operate the stuff for a bit.
> >
> > I laid the '109 out on a table when offered the opportunity. Several
> > commented on it: "Gee, what a neat antique." etc, including the fellow
> with
> > whom I had been discussing this gear, and who had used one like it in
> Laos
> > "back then".
> >
> > I then asked if I could operate a little CW....receiving a blank stare in
> > return.
> >
> > I finally left in disgust, went home, fired up the generator, and
> operated
> > as a
> > 1E station for a bit: 89 minutes to be exact, and made 54 contacts,
> finally
> > having to turn the genny off since we had guests coming for dinner that
> > night.
> >
> > Listening on the bands for the local group's signals proved to me that
> they
> > weren't particularly active, apparently making one contact about every 15
> > minutes or so.
> >
> > I am more than a little ticked off.
> >
> > I may work towards finding some like-minded folks here in the area (so
> > far, I
> > know only one) who would join me in an effort to operate together next
> year
> > using our "antique" gear.
> >
> > Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
> >
> > "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John
> Wayne
> >
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