[Elecraft] Field Day Report

[Rod Hardman]

Oakville ARC VE3HB (Ontario, Canada) ran an all KX2 QRP Battery Field Day this year from a a country back yard. Lots of rain but good times. 

Quite a positive education for all, esp the hardcore CW ops accustomed to 100 Watt contest stations. Ended up logging on iPads (Hamlog) syncing to a Raspberry Pi Zero Server - which the Operators found easy in power but the lack of automation proved tedious. (We should have implemented the Piglets) That’s ok, we automated with people!

Everyone had very good things to say about the KX2. Fantastic experience and the bands were kind to us. 

Best part was not having to listen to the generators (no end of Field day headache!)

Rod, VA3ON

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

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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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