[nrv-hams] Field Day Notes -- Please Respond

[Kenneth Walker]

Dear Carter,

Thanks for the email. Field Day was a great experience. I learned a lot.

I'd consider adding a small vertical station for CW purposes. It might
foster learning, and give more CW time to slower copiers/transmitters.

It seemed that Friday wasn't necessary. It did allow some fine tuning, but
I'm not sure if being there so early was worth it. It might be better to
start early on Saturday.

Signing up for "shifts" on the radios might be an idea. Some people are
night people and some better in the day. I would have relieved Donnie on CW
when he went to bed - but figured he be on the radio all night. I didn't
tell him to wake me, because he had a numerical goal of contacts and I
wasn't aware of this. I don't know how some of the guys worked so many
hours.

The computer system was great. Phill's radio was amazing for SSB.

Thank God we did not set up THIS Friday night!

It was a great initial Field Day for me. Thanks to everyone.

Ken KO4OM

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Carter Craigie <carter128 at verizon.net>wrote:

> Hi fellow club members,
>
>
>
> If our reflector will allow it, in a few days I will be posting some Field
> Day (FD) photos taken by both me and by Donnie Coleman AB4I. Look to see if
> you are in one! If the pictures won't go through the reflector, I will send
> the pictures on to Phil Foster, our club webmaster, and I'm sure he will
> put
> them up on our club's website.
>
>
>
> Did any of you take photos also? If so, please send them on to me
> (carter128 at verizon.net, or to Phil (philfoster at verizon.net). We had SUCH a
> good FD, that we need to document it!
>
>
>
> I, especially, want you each to send me your written comments on this
> year's
> FD effort. What went well, and on what could we improve? What should we
> have
> brought to FD, but left behind? I, for instance, forgot to bring my little
> battery to use in conjunction with the solar panel! We lost lots of
> valuable
> time trying to make something work which didn't--all because I left that
> little battery at home!!! What an important learning there!
>
>
>
> So that is the sort of thing I'm thinking about. Reflect now, while FD is
> fresh in your minds, and see what you remember needed to be done. And could
> we next year try some things we didn't try this year, some PSK-31, for
> instance? With the new Band-Pass Filters, I'm wondering if PSK-31 would be
> feasible.
>
>
>
> And didn't the Band-Pass filters work well??!! I understand there was NO
> interference this year from our own transceivers! Congratulations to all
> our
> club members who gave up their time to wind those toroids, and to solder in
> those capacitors! Donnie did all the final switch-wiring and the
> tuning--thanks, Donnie! He says he will send me that photo of the inside of
> one of the Band-Pass filters, so you all can see the final results of all
> your group work. I'll see that that picture, and, perhaps, some of the
> technical information from the tunings gets posted, and I shall ask Phil to
> post that on the club's website, as well.
>
>
>
> We did an outstanding job on Field Day this year. Ben KK4EWT, especially,
> jumped right into the job that I was unable to do. Thanks to you, Ben! You
> are ALL to be congratulated. Now, let's stop and remember how we can fix
> what needed to be fixed, so that next year we might even exceed this year's
> efforts. Please send your comments and suggestions on to ME at the above
> email address, and I shall compile them into a report for a future club
> meeting!
>
>
>
> Thanks, everybody,
>
>
>
> Carter N3AO
>
> carter128 at verizon.net
>
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