[Elecraft] Field Day Report

[ktalbott at gamewood.net]

FD was a hoot from the farm here in southside Virginia.  The KX2, an Alpha Delta dipole, and N1MM+ on a $99 Kodak laptop performed flawlessly.  The most amazing thing was 10m!  Since I embarked on my QRP CW adventure 4 years ago I had logged not a single 10m contact. This weekend I bagged 26 Qs on 10m, and as many on 15m.  My total of 212 in 6 hours of operation certainly thrilled me!  I really miss the FD social events of the late 1980's in Greensboro,  NC. But when you are trying to bust a pileup with 5-watts who has time for socializing?
Ken ke4rg

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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:30 PM
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Subject: [Elecraft] Field Day Report

A large group gathered for the K6SRA 3A/SCV FD operation in San Jose. Despite temperatures in the mid-90 s and blistering sunshine, we had many visitors, including a lot of curious non-hams. 

This tends to be a social event with lots of conversation and ad-hoc experimentation with radios and antennas, so I won t be bragging about our claimed Field Day score. Still, a good time was had by all, with vast quantities of water and other liquids consumed to avoid heat stroke.

Late Saturday afternoon I undertook a brief solo trek to exercise the KX2. I had intended to climb a nearby hill. Given the outrageous temperatures, I settled for a picnic table on the other side of the parking lot, beneath a large oak. 

Normally I would have tossed a wire into this tree. Instead I used a prototype 2-band, 4  whip, in keeping with the  two QSOs per foot challenge  we proposed in a recent Elecraft newsletter. I made 10 QSOs over the course of about 20 minutes (that s 3.00 Q/ft, for those keeping score), ranging from KH6 to the East Coast. 

Overall, conditions were not thrilling. 20 meters was pretty much single-hop until Saturday evening. 15 m was deceased until this morning when, back at the home QTH, I noticed things picking up on this band around the same time as some sporadic-E kicking in on 6 m.

Wayne
N6KR

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