[K3PZN-List] W3AO Field Day Presentation by K3RA - Slight Change of Venue (April 6th)

Wed Apr 6 12:07:26 EDT 2011

Hi Curt and team CCARC / CCC field day fans,

I nominate Curt, WB8YYY to be our "green" station captain!

Current status of our field day plans:  we are awaiting approval from Gamber to use their great facility again.

Hard to believe less than 3 months until the grand event.

I am hoping NY3A will be a CW team leader again, and although we haven't offically appointed our leadership for the event, NOW is the time to start thinking about being a team captain!

73,

Jim    WX3B

--- On Wed, 4/6/11, Curt Milton <wb8yyy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Curt Milton <wb8yyy at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] W3AO Field Day Presentation by K3RA - Slight Change of Venue (April 6th)
> To: "Carroll County Amateur Radio Club" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 11:55 AM
> I am glad he admits this is 'extreme'
> field day.  
> 
> Its definitely 'heavy metal' -- lots of big yagi's, towers
> and big power thirsty 
> rigs (even when they are NOT transmitting) -- meaning gobs
> of generators and 
> burning some gallons of gas -- and lots of man-hours to
> set-up.  
> 
> 
> OK - its whatever 'turns you on.'  I guess I prefer the
> 'acoustic sound' for 
> field day.  I know of folk who will drive into park with
> only batteries, erect 
> some wire antennas (sometimes wire beams if they are near
> one of the coasts) and 
> use their 'less power thirsty rigs.'  (Example my K2
> consumes about 70 mA on 
> receive vs. my Yaesu-monster which does over an amp -- ok I
> like this 'monster' 
> when the power is coming from BGE.)  
> 
> 
> Actually one op last year had a pretty 'acoustic FD
> sound.'  NY3A was the last 
> to show up -- he erected a couple masts very quickly, and
> he was ready to 
> operate.  (OK I don't know how much power a K3 uses versus
> the FT-'s ....).  
> 
> 
> I wonder if we could consider ONE 'Green Station' at our
> FD (amongst the heavy 
> metal set-ups that may emerge) ?  Perhaps a K2 on solar
> cells, with 'big' but 
> light weight antennas.  It would be nifty if we can use it
> on both CW and SSB, 
> and if we are networked it could be assigned to operate
> effectively where lower 
> transmit power will work.  Perhaps someone has some solar
> arrays ??  
> 
> 
> I am imagining that we have more HF spectrum available this
> year -- perhaps 4 
> phone, 3 CW, 1-2 digital and VHF/UHF?  Of course we need
> more operators ..... 
> Can we aim to handily beat N3AO's set-up/tear down (and
> energy bill) by a huge 
> margin ??  
> 
> 
> Also maybe we can expand the inclusion of 'public service'
> demonstrations (and I 
> know ops at N3AO who would work with us again ....).  
> 
> 
> Spring fever - contest season nearly over (at least one
> PVRC rookie is done for 
> the year!) .... maybe other ideas are out there?
> 
> 73 Curt
> 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: James Nitzberg <wx3b at yahoo.com>
> To: k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Tue, April 5, 2011 11:01:27 PM
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] W3AO Field Day Presentation by K3RA -
> Slight Change of 
> Venue (April 6th)
> 
> 
> With regard to this presentation, the venue has changed
> slightly from the 
> Council Office Building (COB) cafeteria to the 6th Floor
> Conference Room.  Also, 
> take note of signs or ask the guard on the first floor
> across from the elevator 
> if additional directions are required.
> 
> 73
> Dennis Kronenberg N8IVN for MARC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: n8ivn <n8ivn at aol.com>
> To: pvrc <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: horlick <horlick at us.net>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 2:04 pm
> Subject: W3AO Field Day Presentation by K3RA
> 
> 
> The program will be "W3AO Extreme Field Day!" presented by
> Rol Anders, K3RA.
> 
> 
> How many contest teams have averaged 425Q's/hour for 24
> hours?!  That's the 
> typical performance of the W3AO FD team.  For 12 years,
> the call sign W3AO has 
> been in just about every Field Day log as the Potomac
> Valley Radio Club/Columbia 
> Amateur Radio Association (PVRC/CARA) team rises head and
> shoulders above every 
> other Field Day operation. The team holds 12 class scoring
> records and has the 
> record for the highest FD scores in history.  How do they
> do it? 
> 
> 
> 
> For those who missed this presentation at the past PVRC
> holiday dinner and would 
> like to find out the answer to these questions and hear
> more, please join the 
> Montgomery Amateur Radio Club (MARC) for our Wed., April
> 6th meeting at 7:30p.m. 
> in the cafeteria of the Stella B. Werner Council Office
> Building (COB) at 100 
> Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD.  Free parking is available
> in the adjacent 
> garage.  See www.marcclub.org for a map of the location.
> 
> 73
> Dennis N8IVN
> 
> 
> 
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