[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Vintage & Military Radio Field Day?

[Dennis Monticelli]

I went on FD with my small group of friends this year as usual.  It's
essentially a high Sierra's camping trip with a Vee Beam in 100' trees
spitting out CW.  I don't know if overall FD participation was down this
year, but I seriously doubt it because FD has remained very popular over
the past years.  Yes, signals were down.  There was a high disturbance in
the geomagnetic field on Saturday that absorbed signals to the point that
15 meters on up was pathetic and the lower bands had weaker than normal
signals a midst higher than normal background noise.  Perhaps that was what
you folks were experiencing.

FD is simply what you make of it.  There are big club groups, small groups
of friends, CW fans, the phone crowd, high power, QRP battery, social
scenes, hard-core contester types. urban campgrounds, the home shack on a
generator, or a hike into the woods.   I think the event deserves its
popularity and should be supported. The local newspaper carried a nice
piece on Monday that spoke very positively of the event and the
contribution of our hobby to emergency preparedness  We all collectively
benefit from that PR.   If you don't find a group you like locally,
organize your own or go solo.

Dennis AE6C


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> Well, gents, first of all it depends on the equipment, secondly on the
> skill of
> the operators, and thirdly, there is the fact that this Field Day proved
> that
> there were far fewer signals than any other FD I have ever been in on.
>
> QRM was NOT a problem.
>
> I think you are may be right in general, but wrong in specific. We'll see.
>
> I fired up the AN/GRC-109 last night and intend to do some serious
> operating to see how difficult it will be to use it in a FD situation.
>
> More later.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
>
> On 26 Jun 2013 at 7:00, mac wrote:
>
> > >> Trying to operate vintage equipment on ARRL FD suspect we would end
> > >>  up being buried in the QRM whatever special
> > >> operating/scoring/category scheme one might come up with.....
> > >>
> > >> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> > >> Glendale, CA
>
> Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
>
> "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John   Wayne
>
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