[K3PZN-List] W3AO Field Day Presentation by K3RA - Slight Change of Venue (April 6th)
Curt Milton
wb8yyy at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 7 11:28:00 EDT 2011
John
Do generate your own thoughts on what we should consider applying to our FD!
(and email them to us!)
I do suggest we beat them on setup/tear down .... and aim to get more operators
involved per station than I think what they typically achieve.
I suggest for a higher RTTY rate we integrate N1MM to MMTTY (I think it also
supports a second 'RTTY engine' for I forget what it is -- literally one can
call CQ, type their call once - click to transmit - and click one more time to
log it. (OK here I do agree with the contesting methodology!)
Note if we network 'everything' a phone station experiencing a low rate could be
equipped to do some RTTY, another thought. (Also we can reverse our high dupe
rate we had last year on at least one mode).
73 Curt
----- Original Message ----
From: John Hart <john_k3kwo at hotmail.com>
To: (RADIO CLUB) CCARC-LIST <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 9:47:02 AM
Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] W3AO Field Day Presentation by K3RA - Slight Change of
Venue (April 6th)
Hello to all,
The program about W3AO Field Day events over the past was excellent last night
in
Rockville. K3RA did a great job explaining the ins and outs of Field Day setup
and operation and how they have been able to rack up such high scores even
though it's not a true contest, it is very challenging event.
John, K3KWO
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:07:26 -0700
> From: wx3b at yahoo.com
> To: k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] W3AO Field Day Presentation by K3RA - Slight Change
>of Venue (April 6th)
>
> 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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