[Elecraft] Field Day Report

[Wayne Burdick]

The bands were hopping at our K6SRA campsite in Joseph Grant county park east of San Jose. 20 meters in particular was wall-to-wall. 40 m really took off in the afternoon and never stopped.

Most of the time the CW station was my KX2 at 10 W. The SSB station used various other rigs at 100 W. Coexistence was peaceful despite the antennas being separated by only 40 feet or so. (We didn't even consider using FT8. Still, that frenzied fun-house of robotic birdcalls did serve as a convenient marker for the end of each CW segment.)

When things wound down on Sunday I switched to my own call to do a bit of /PM operation with the KX2 and a whip. In a 10 minute walk I made another half dozen contacts on CW and SSB. One of years I'm going to try to do an entire Field Day this way. My goal is 50 QSOs per granola bar.

73,
Wayne
N6KR