[K3PZN-List] Field Day > Satellite Report

[Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680)]

To all,

I have a photo of two visitors to our Field 
Day site at my public information table to share 
with the club (and for Curt WB8YYY who 
I believe will be sending in our score to the 
ARRL).  So we can claim the many BONUS 
POINTS for, among others, Set Up In A 
Public Place, Information Booth, and 
Educational Activity.  The latter was the 
session we (Steve, Marc & I) held on 
Saturday night successfully working on the 
UHF helical RHCP antenna for the satellite 
station.  

About the satellite station, there were 
MANY successes involved in it on 
Saturday and Sunday.  One of my 
regrets is that we did not complete a 
two-way contact for bonus points, I 
think, in part, because set up was more 
complicated than the other stations and 
it started too late within the rules time 
table.  We should have set it up on 
Friday evening.  

BTW, we did indeed hear many 
stations on the satellites, with some 
coming in just as loud as the loudest 
stations heard on 20 meters.  No 
joke!  (The marvels of an antenna with 
excellent gain, circular polarization 
AND a really big 20dB and expensive 
low-noise pre-amplifier to boot!)  

Even with the frustrations we were 
battling all weekend with the station, 
I believe we figured out everything, 
and just ran out of time.  So, we are 
ready for next time.  It will be a 
charm.  

I had lots of fun and camaraderie at 
the K3PZN 4A MDC field day this 
year.  I want to thank all my friends 
who stopped by the satellite hut to 
say Hi and to those who lended 
the needed support at times.  You 
guys are great!  

CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN.  

Cheers,

Pat
N8PK

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From: Andy Leeds [wo3l at comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 8:40 PM
To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club
Subject: [K3PZN-List] Field Day

Just a quick reminder if you have receipts to turn in for field day let
me know I can meet up with you or you can email me a copy of the receipt.

I am short a length of RG213 coax, I brought out 2 about 50' runs but
only 1 made it home with me so check the trunk and make sure it didn't
hitch a ride home with you.

Andy