[KCDXC] Field Day - Mid 90's a picture tour BYRG style!

[Bob Brown - WØNQX]

Mid 90's Field DAY:

https://picasaweb.google.com/114167352822624270058/FieldDayBYRGStyleMid90S?feat=directlink


>From K0LW:

I did host a number of FD's at my QTH and they were great fun.
It seems that it became more difficult to get commitments after Doc, Ace and
Tom moved away.
The remainder save for a few just would commit with a "I might stop by".
That makes it VERY hard to plan any meals and refreshments (the heart
of FD), so I stopped hosting.

Sm0ke brought his whole family and camped out, so did Ike, WB0AAQ and
others. Alex,KU1CW
cranked away at the surplus rig with the hand generator and we had a blast.

I guess times are just different for many.

I feel that FD should not be planned except for radios. The whole idea is
for it to simulate emergency commo and not a well orchestrated operation
(IMHO). I enjoy the planned events just as well, but 100W and a battery to a
piece of wire is real emergency commo and good enough for me.

EOM
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Me, W0NQX I feel the same way Lee does about FD, it should be about
real field condtions IMHO,

But planned orchestrated set ups can be fun too!
Just as the Raytown site can be!. I have spent some time there too.
and the Independence EOC too!

Lets not get carried away with the idea and try to remember the spirit
of the OP!

On Field Day I always just grabbed what ever I could find out in the
barn, in the truck, in the shack and headed out to Lee's
place and made a weekend of it, the only thing that was ever planned,
was the weekend sleep over! everything else radio was
just what I had on hand! always seemed to work and we had fun doing it! :)

Of course my work schedule and getting older makes me plan a bit more now too!

anyhow enjoy the past FD pics!

https://picasaweb.google.com/114167352822624270058/FieldDayBYRGStyleMid90S?feat=directlink

and

Raytown's Field Day 2009, I got the Fox4 Tv News out to do a news piece on FD!.

http://www.k0gq.org/video/Fox4NewsCoverage%20ARRLFieldDay2009.mp4
and
http://www.k0gq.org/video/2009_ARRL_Field_Day_Video_With%20New_Footage.mp4

The Fox4 TV news crew won a ARRL award for this news story too as well!


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