[OFARC] KE5AOA Field Day Results

[Rick Giuffre]

This was a very different field day for many reasons. For the first time ever, I could easily switch from band to band. I experienced what Lee commented about with very high noise levels on 20 meters. I switched to 10, 15 and 6 to get a little relief on the noise level as well as the crowded band conditions. Forty and 20 meters were a battlefield. Also, having a computer to look up stations on QRZ.com <http://qrz.com/> as you worked them confirmed my hunch that the “running” stations were, in fact, the big guns. When you see that a station has 173,000 lookups, there is no doubt that those are serious contest operators. I’ll bet that if Ralph, Alex, Lee and I compare logs, we may have worked a lot of the same stations. In the attachment, I have include my log as well as a second version of it where I looked up the distances of the contacts. My nearest contact was W5LST in Arkansas at 299.1 miles and my farthest contact was K1R in New Hampshire at 1,636.0 miles. I thought in was interesting that Ralph, Lee and I all worked 26 states and all or nearly all the call zones. Alex didn’t report that much detail but I wish he would fill in more information. Although I worked 26 states, only one was in Texas. I think both Mark, WB5ANN and Jeremy, KG5PYY were planning to work HF but because they they weren’t on the net last Tuesday, we haven’t yet heard their results.

I would like to know everybody’s station set-up. I was using a Yaesu FT-857D fed into a Carolina Windom (a version of off-center fed dipole) at about 40 feet up with an LDG Z-11ProII for impedance matching. My radio is stock except that I added the Collins 2.3 kHz mechanical filter for improved SSB selectivity. I think Alex also uses an 857d. I believe Ralph is using a new Icom 7300. I don’t know what Lee is using.

73,
Rick, KE5AOA



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