[ARC5] Field Day musings...

[Geoff]

The photo shows my Viking I/VFO and HQ-129X and a DX-100 with NC-98. There 
was also a 2M Gonset not shown and a couple of Globe Scouts with BC-348 and 
S-40 as backup.

The generator was WW2 surplus borrowed by one of the dads. The site was a 
"high elevation" open field...this was Long Island so "high" relative.

Transportation was in a 56 Hudson station wagon (what a beast) with another 
dad towing the genny. Food, soda, water, etc went in my semi custom/hot rod 
49 Ford.

Antennas were a Gotham vertical for 20/40 and extension ladder supported 
Gotham monobanders for 10 and 15.

Carl


Wow! That brings back some good memories.  When I was a JN in the early 
1970s the club in Pittsburgh PA that I belonged to would have this massive 
generator that was towed to FD site.  Haven't thought of that in a long 
time.
Mark K3MSB
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On Jun 24, 2013 7:31 PM, "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> 
wrote:

On 24 Jun 2013 at 18:31, Geoff wrote:

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

I have a newspaper photo of a very haggard-looking and much younger me 
operating in a FD
in Missoula, Montana. We had two 5 KW generators (both mine), and CW and SSB 
stations
on at least 4 bands.

There were enough operators in the entire club to only provide two per 
position for the entire
FD.

We won our class in our section.

THAT was FUN! :-)

We were much younger then...

Ken W7EKB
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