[Elecraft] Field Day at Home

[Kevin Rock]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:45:12 -0700, Alexandra Carter  
<alexandracarter at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the encouragement! Actually, I feel this is a valuable  
> learning experience:
>
> (1) Bring your own gear and be familiar with its use in the field  
> through practice, that way you'll always have a rig to plop yourself  
> down in front of and operate - yours.
>
> (2) Bring salt and pepper for the burgers, and mayo too, sriracha  
> perhaps too, just to see if anyone tries it (super hot sauce found in  
> all vietnamese noodle shops)
>
> (3) Be good at code - If I were more up to speed on code, I'd have felt  
> confident to just wait in the very short line to get on the CW station.  
> Problem is, while I've been putting in work on it and getting better, I  
> just wasn't "there" yet.
>
> (4) Nice simple antennas work great, think long hunks of wire + tall  
> trees = happiness.
>
> (5) Computers are NOT your friends!! I signed up to do the digital  
> station (psk31) because I can type better than most in the group and at  
> least it's one thing I can do. Computers crapped out both for logging  
> and I think when the one guy who set up the PSK31 station went home, the  
> station went with him, at sundown. At the SSB station, same story,  
> computer problems and unreliability. The GOTA station started humming  
> right along once their computer died and they started a proper paper  
> log. Learn to write well, quickly and cleanly, look up "directed script"  
> or whatever it's called that the old time CW ops used. It can be  
> transferred into a logging program that checks for dupes etc later, but  
> in the 24-hour time window of FD, computers only slow ya down.
>
> Now, I actually don't have any Elecraft rigs right now. It's a long  
> story. if I build yet ANOTHER KX1 I'll prolly just get the stock one and  
> the internal tuner, and not mess with additional bands. I could always  
> add them later, but keep it really simple at first. And I'll probably  
> just use my own paddle - I have one of the little American Morse jobs  
> and it's neat. Also, a Vibroplex Code-Mite straight key which looks like  
> a toy but isn't, it's a very nice, sturdy, good-feeling little key.
>
> Oh, and I have an IC-7000 I just got.
>
> 73 de Alex NS6Y.
>
> On Jun 25, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Joseph Trombino Jr wrote:
>>
>> Howdy Alex:
>>
>> I gave up on participating in club Field Day efforts many years ago  
>> precisely because of the points you raised.
>>
>> But don't give up on Field Day altogether.....you are a QRP'er which  
>> makes you a special breed....take your QRP gear out to the field and  
>> have fun.
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