[Milsurplus] Field Day Report

[Robert Flory]

K2WI 1A SNJ
 
120 QSOs plus copy of the special Field Day Bulletin by W1AW(on 160m, no
QRM) Operation on 160m AM/CW, 80 CW, 40 CW. Several Californians worked on
80. About 8 hours operating time.
 
TCS set on car battery. Antenna was an 80m ground plane on an 85-foot guyed
telephone pole. The pole is the last of many at the "pole farm" where it
and its kin held up rhombics for point-to-point transmitting to Europe.
They went up just before WWII, and were owned by AT&T. Now the site is a
county park. Chriping birds woke me at 3AM, about an hour and 15 minutes
before the sky started to noticeably lighten.
 
Limiting factor receiver selectivity(no surprise there)
 
Crew- Rob, Martin(his first camping trip)


Rob Flory
robandpj at earthlink.net
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