[Elecraft] OT: Field Day anecdotes

[David Cutter]

We stepped out of our tiny caravan one morning to find we were axle deep in
water.

David G3UNA

On Thu, 21 May 2026 at 16:49, Michael Needham via Elecraft <
elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Many years ago I got permission from my National Guard commander to take
> one of our shop rigs and generator sets to FD .I set up  the generators and
> a rigged up interface  the NG had built to supply civilian plug-ins  , now
> mind you we in the past had small generators vs the two 10 Kw generator set
> I just showed up with.
> It was fun to see my club members discover that there was enough power to
> run all the stations plus air-conditioned  custom van , plus lights .
> So Saturday afternoon  som of my friends walked up while I was making a
> generator  swap over which involved having both generators operating and a
> heavy duty snap action change over switch that swapps the load over.
>  My friends  were staring at the control panel and expressed  concern that
> the clubs equipment was too much load  for the generator  , I had to laugh
> as I pointed out they was looking at the Cycles Per Second  gage not the
> load meter , we were holding at 60 CPS  and 10 to 15% load , where when my
> unit was in the field we ran these generators at 100% load for the
> duration  of the drill.
> It was a conversation with would pop up many times later about "That time
> we had more power than we knew what to do with".
>
>             Michael  WB7SKK
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:54 AM jimk8mr--- via Elecraft <
> elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> >  Many years ago I was operating after dark, from a table under a picnic
> > fly. When suddenly my pretty new IC-746 jumped off the operating table,
> > onto the ground!
> > A departing operator had caught the feedline on his car's rear bumper.
> > Fortunately I had an SWR bridge in line, the coax to it acting as a
> > mechanical fuse to keep the radio from going any further.  The op did
> > realize what had happened and stopped to check things out, so my radio
> > would not have accumulated may miles. But it still worked!
> >
> > 73  -  Jim   K8MR
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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