[nrv-hams] Field Day and Gota

[Ben Williams]

1st i will take the blame for the Gota Station not being run as it 
should have.

Carter you asked why to Gota station was not on the Air at 2pm, it was 
because i got to the site and realized that i had left the microphone 
and a usb-rs232 cable at home in my shack so i had asked Cathy to 
retrieve them but she ended up having to run to Roanoke to help a stroke 
victim friend of ours return to the hospital.

So that meant I had to return home thus returning to the site late. And 
as Field Day Chairman I stopped and picked up the Hamburgers and 
Hotdogs. by the time I returned to the site it was time to start 
cooking. I hope the ones who tried the pulled pork bbq and the chilli 
beans enjoyed them.  As with everything else i was spread too thin to 
run the GOTA station as it should  have been ran and i will accept that 
failure.

Next Year i want to do more digitial modes myself and like other things 
this weekend the laptop i use for the digitial modes kept locking up 
everytime i had a contact come back to i couldnt finish the QSO.


I want to Thank everyone that came out to participate in Field Day, 
whether bringing equipment, radios or food, and especially want to thank 
Dannie who help with the cooking and we both were the ones up all nite.

Next Year is a new year, but we have learned some lessons, the biggest 
is that when it comes down to it, if we all work together we can 
overcome almost any obstacle even if some of those obstacles are 
personalities, missing equipment, and malfunctioning antennas.

To the Field Day Chairperson next year I wish you good luck and you will 
have my support of my radios antennas and Mast.  After this year i am 
very much debating spending a week in the kitchen before Field Day..