[OFARC] KE5AOA Field Day Results

[MLandress]

I did exclusively PSK using FLdigi search and pounce.  Band conditions were fair but my noise level was relatively low.  Macros and logging program to capture call and section to the log saved a lot of effort.  I used the FLdigi logging program.  Had N1MM logger but had a lot of trouble with the radio control interface.  Running Icom 7000, signalink interface, Butternut vertical 30 watts.  

 

From: ofarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ofarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rick Giuffre
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2020 2:33 PM
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Subject: [OFARC] KE5AOA Field Day Results

 

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 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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