[Elecraft] KX3/KX2 remote for FD

[Jim Brown]

On 5/14/2020 11:17 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
>  From ARRL - At its core, *Field Day* is a local event and an 
> opportunity for local amateur radio clubs to showcase the skills, 
> science and technologies that make radio communication such a wonderful 
> hobby and a valuable public service.
> 
> I see nothing about this being a contest.

Yeah, they've been saying that for years. Saying something doesn't make 
it true. For the vast majority of contesters of my generation, it was 
our first contest. It's a "gateway drug." And if you don't think it's a 
contest, you've never been part of a club that takes FD seriously. The 
club I participated with in Chicago was, and still is, one of the top 
three in its class, usually #1 or #2, and our current group in W6 has 
won 1AB three times.

Important parts of doing well in FD are searching for and getting 
permission for a good site that is RF quiet and has good possibilities 
for rigging antennas, checking out all the gear in advance, selecting 
radios that play well together in a multi-transmitter environment 
(Elecraft is a big winner), rejecting those that don't (el-cheapo 
160-440MHz for $1K junk), learning how to separate antennas to minimize 
interference between stations while maximizing performance, checking out 
every part of our stations in advance. There's a lot to be learned that 
prepares us for emergencies from every element of what I've outlined above.

FD SHOULD also teach "short and sweet" operating procedures that are 
directly applicable for emergency operation -- that's when I first 
learned it from my contesting Elmer, W8FUM.

73, Jim K9YC