[Elecraft] Field Day Report

[rich hurd WC3T]

Without shame, I am hereby checking in with my 5 SSB QSOs using my barefoot
KX3 and PX3 at our weekend camp on picturesque Lake George.  Hey I broke
some serious pileups to get them.  I deserve some cred. :)

Flying the end fed antenna end from my WonderPole, the owner of the camp
espied me and asked, "Nice pole.  What are you after?"  "Electrons," I
answered with a straight face.  His face broke into a big sunny smile.
Turns out he's not only interested in hamming himself but also runs a
private girl's school and they are heavy into the STEM thing (no "A",
please) and we ended up our f2f by making plans for a Skype session for the
girls for later this year for me to chat about that voodoo that we do.   I
did offer him a GOTA session. Sadly he never made it over.   He was busy
opening cabins and getting his properties ready for the summer.

After I was done and packed up, the nieces and nephews took a page out of
my kids' playbook by chanting "Whiskey Charlie Three Tango" for the rest of
the weekend.  Hey, I've been called worse.

I have lots of notes on what went wrong (the two biggest: CW CW CW is next
on the priority list. And either configure digimodes to run on this laptop
or get a more powerful one) and what went right.   As Ahnold would say,
"I'll be back."

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 23:40 <ktalbott at gamewood.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
> On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:30 PM
> To: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: KX3 at yahoogroups.com
> 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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