[K6NCG] Field Day report.

[Bill Miner]

Hi Your Self Sir,

I am so happy to hear that you had such a good time and were in the comfort 
of a mobile office truck and the yacht club.  Some people actually set up 
out in the "field" for Field Day.

It is strange that a "Communications Officer" declined to publish the K6NCG 
operating frequency until the end of field day.  It is also strange that you 
we able to make a total of only 20 contacts for Field Day.  How much effort 
was spent on that?

If you can detect a note of sarcasm it is because many of us were hoping to 
make a contact with K6NCG  if only for nostalgic reasons.  Why did you even 
bother to mention this on the list and get our hopes up?

Bill Miner - K6WLM (ex WA6JUL)
ET-A and ET-B School and K6NCG member mid 1960s


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Desmond Crisis" <dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com>
To: <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 7:12 AM
Subject: [K6NCG] Field Day report.


> Hi All!
>
> We had a lot of fun yesterday.  Andy, KI6ARA and Michelle, KI6ARB brought 
> a mobile office truck and a large canopy that made things very comfortable 
> to work from, thanks to those guys for all of the effort they put in! 
> They were setting things up when I got there and worked hard to make sure 
> everything was right.
>
> The station was a combination of two missions  The Coast Guard Auxiliary 
> (I'm a communications officer there) was running nets on government 
> frequencies for propagation test and there were a number of fellow 
> auxiliarists here for that.  We were calling it a "Demonstration Station" 
> because it's main purpose was to show new operators, hams and auxies, what 
> HF was about.  We were able to get a number of people on the air and we 
> were able to work our sister station in Souther California on only 5 watts 
> (forgot to turn it back up after tuning - pleasant surprise!)
>
> For Field Day, it was great to have K6NCG on the air again!  We were a 2A 
> station and took it pretty easy, mostly staying on 20m.  There were some 
> power issues and ground-plane issues but overall the Yaesu FT-897 and 
> Tarheel 300 antenna setup worked great after we worked out the bugs.  With 
> just Pete and I on HF spending most of the time showing new people around 
> we were still able to make about 20 contacts.  Lots of stations in 
> Louisiana, Texas, Idaho Connecticut and even a maritime mobile in Rhode 
> Island.
>
> I will try to get the station back up this morning at the Yacht Club.  I 
> don't expect that we'll submit the logs for the contest so lets work the 
> call while we have it here!  We picked 14.292 because it was mentioned on 
> the list a month or two ago, I'll stay there and drift only about 5KC in 
> either direction around QRM.  I'll get the station back up in a little 
> bit.  They're having a breakfast at the Yacht Club and I'll at least set 
> up the car and probably be on the air from 0900-1200 local.  (we'll get 
> that extra hour because we didn't start until later and things will be 
> quieter after 11:00)
>
> Remember, all of you are invited to let me know when you'll be in town and 
> we'll have you over to the Yacht Club whenever something's happening 
> there.  We should get a reunion at some point (I can sneak in an RV or two 
> in our lot for an overnight if you're brave enough to try it on our off 
> ramps!)
>
> I'm hoping for more of you and a bigger station next year out here, let's 
> start planning it.
>
> 73 FD de Desmond, KC6VHG
>
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