[KYHAM] Field day blues --- the cure

Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:08:00 -0400

ED AND CARRIE YEARY  W4TEY and W4CAY
325 CUMBERLAND DRIVE
HARROGATE, TN. 37752-6942

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Osborne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [KYHAM] Field day blues --- the cure

> We did a special event station once from Moon, KY.
> It was a hoot and all had a good time.
> I can't remember how many contacts we had but it was a bunch.
> We even printed a certificate.
>
> Good ideas from a GREAT hobby.
>
> 73
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Tim Osborne  K4TDO
> SERA Vice Director for Kentucky
> Coordinating West of Interstate 75
> P.O. Box 381
> Happy, KY 41746-0381
> [email protected]
> www.sera.org
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Danny K4DOJ" <[email protected]>
> To: "K4Gap" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:26
> Subject: Re: [KYHAM] Field day blues --- the cure
>
>
> > Hello Gary,
> >
> > I have a suggestion that will help keep "field day blues" at bay. One
> > suggestion is setting up a special event station several times a year. A
> > special event station operated from Shaker Town or High Bridge would be
> > something that comes to mind. Special Event Stations are heralded in QST
> > each month and allow one to have as many field days as you want.  I try
> > to work as many of these stations as I can each weekend and about this
> > time of year there are several. There are about fifteen on the air this
> > very weekend. You can follow these all year long at the following web
> > address QST link <http://www.arrl.org/contests/spev.html>  (
> > http://www.arrl.org/contests/spev.html )  if you don't get QST. Special
> > event stations typically offer QSL cards and/or Certificates that are
> > collected by many hams.
> >
> > This past weekend Scott County ARES set up a HF and VHF station at the
> > fifth annual Safety Day. Radios, tuner, push poles, antenna, shelter,
> > and sun screen and it was field day again in Georgetown. In addition to
> > providing more public exposure for amateur radio we had a good time. We
> > made slightly less than 100 contacts but we were allowed the opportunity
> > to brag on our county with hams in three countries. The nice thing about
> > being a ham is that we can have as many field days as we want. Hmm,
> > maybe a special event near Natural Bridge or the Red River Gorge might
> > be fun.........
> >
> > 73,
> > Danny K4DOJ
> > Georgetown, KY
> >
> > K4Gap wrote:
> >
> > >Field day blues...
> > >
> > >Remember when you were a kid and Christmas was only weeks away? Well
> prior to this past field day I was like that. After sitting here for
awhile
> tonight with the headphones on listening to code tapes, my mind started to
> wonder off thinking about field day. (Likely excuse for cutting the code
> practice huh?) I wondered why since field day was so enjoyable, why not
have
> it more than once a year? I know it would not be very likely to convince
> hams worldwide to add an event, but why not at the state level? For
example,
> a statewide field day in the fall. Using approx. the same layout. Is this
> something that has been discussed in the past? Surely it is not an
original
> idea. I know I can't be the only ham in the state that sit and counted the
> days til field day. If anyone else agrees that this may be a good idea,
> voice your opinion and lets see what happens.
> > >
> > >Counting the days....
> > >Gary, K4Gap
> > >
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