[Elecraft] QRP FD KX2 Batteries & FT8 Report

[John Oppenheimer]

Covered in ARRL FD FAQ:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Field-Day/2019/2019-FD-FAQ-RevA.pdf

convenient backyard operations on property of home stations remain
either Class D (commercial power) or Class E (emergency power), even if
home antenna structures are not used

John KN5L

On 6/25/19 1:52 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> Interesting question. He reports:
> 
>> When our club’s plans for FD fell through at the last minute I set up 1B with my trusty KX-2 with a Bioenno battery and two internal KX2 battery pacs on my back porch. Got a Par 40-20-10 end-fed up about 40’ in a north-south orientation only to find band conditions here were pretty bad here in the north with QRN, QSB and faint signals at best.
> It sounds like he was not depending on any of the home station 
> infrastructure e.g. antennas, so I think that he was in class 
> 1B, one or two person portable or even perhaps 1Bb if he was 
> battery QRP. YMMV.