[K3PZN-List] FD2007 Initial Report - PSK QRO or equivalent

Tue Jun 26 12:09:01 EDT 2007

Greetings To All:

I think everyone has made good suggestions to better our FD operation. I 
can tell you we lost about 4 hours on CW because of a ineffective antenna 
on 40M. Thanks to Curt's 40M inverted Vee we were able to get in the 
pileups and rack up some contacts. Steve mentioned to me that we could have 
easily dropped the Windom and modified to a 40M dipole. We'll have to keep 
that in mind for next year. The CW contacts certainly add to the score plus 
it is a truly fun mode for those of us that enjoy it.

I had a real good time and enjoyed being with everyone for two days of pure 
Ham Radio...

Thanks again to John for his work organizing Field Day  and Pete for the chow.

73's

Bill  N3WM

At 10:12 AM 6/26/2007, geobra at att.net wrote:
>Curt,
>What are you talking about?  In 13 rig hours phone did 120 QSOs.  Digital 
>can share CW's antennas!
>Seriously, though, I don't think we need EOC (FTC) antennas for a QRP 
>field day, if we go that route next year.  Digital was on a portable 
>antenna, phone was on a portable antenna and I believe 40m CW was 
>also.  And if we don't use EOC (FTC) antennas, the antennas can be spread 
>out much farther for less interference.
>I also think that the 60 80m phone contacts in 8 hours and the 60 40m 
>phone contacts in 5 hours shows that phone is a viable (and for us a 
>really untapped) way to get QRP QSOs.  I'll bet that if you ran 2 QRP 
>phone stations continuously you could easily get 300 QSOs, probably 400.
>Rich, N3III
>
>-------------- Original message from Curt Milton <wb8yyy at yahoo.com>: 
>--------------
>
>
> > John
> >
> > Thanks for the nice post. Yes I like to poke a little
> > fun at the digital mode station since it has a thirst
> > for using DC power, and even the power to boost its RF
> > output may not be that great compared to how much the
> > PC uses ! (But I do enjoy working some PSK31 at home,
> > and it will be even more fun now running 30 watts
> > instead of 5 watts with my K2 ! And last night I
> > turned on my TT1340 QRP rig, worked a VE2, heard a
> > LY3-station that I could not work, so I did use the K2
> > to work him on 40m).
> >
> > Lets see 5 to 50 watts is 10 dB ...
> >
> > Maybe we can boost your RF signal next year with a
> > better antenna ! Maybe an extended double zepp will
> > get half of this 10 dB (or more) on 20m compared to an
> > outbacker? And on 40m likely it still would have
> > about 5 dB gain over an outbacker ?
> >
> > Next year I suggest we focus on fewer, better
> > antennas. It might mean sharing them between digital
> > and phone, but our productivity would go up a bunch.
> > And more time to chat between radio operating.
> >
> > And I wonder if a K2 on PSK would output less RF
> > across the band ....
> >
> > Maybe we need a play radio event at the EOC to see
> > what we can do as a rehersal.
> >
> > I wonder if there is a way to install halyards at the
> > EOC for easy temporary antenna lifting (??). Probably
> > no as we would have already done it.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- John Hart wrote:
> >
> > > Hello to all,
> > >
> > > I had a great time at the 2007 Field Day event. The
> > > HF Digital Station was
> > > a little slow getting started on Saturday due to a
> > > few little technical
> > > glitches but everything ran smooth all night
> > > (especially with the 4, 5 or more cups of coffee)
> > > and club member support.
> > > Batteries are the way to go, but I would like to
> > > have alittle more RF OUT
> > > maybe 50 watts would be nice on the digital modes.
> > > I guess I will need more
> > > batteries and MORE AMP-HOURS (you know you cann't
> > > have too many AMP-HOURS
> > > stored up for these events) .
> > >
> > > John, K3KWO
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: geobra at att.net
> > > >Reply-To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club
> > >
> > > >To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club
> > >
> > > >Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] FD2007 Initial Report
> > > >Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:46:38 +0000
> > > >
> > > >Great thanks to John who ran Field Day!
> > > >
> > > >Rich, N3III
> > > >
> > > >-------------- Original message from W3JJH
> > > : --------------
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > QST de W3JJH:
> > > > >
> > > > > The initial report for FD 2007 is posted at . In
> > > summary, 478 CW
> > > > > QSOs, 43 on digital, and 72 on Phone, with a
> > > total of 1800 bonus points
> > > >for a
> > > > > provisional total of 7370.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you to everyone who helped!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 72 de W3JJH
> > > > > John
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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