[ARC5] Field Day musings...

[Geoff]

I still have a 1957 FD photo of a couple of friends and myself at FD, no 
club involved but we had fun.

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Monticelli" <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com>
To: "Mark K3MSB" <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
Cc: "ARC5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Field Day musings...


> 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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