[OFARC] KE5AOA Field Day Results

[Bob Norris]

Yaesu 891     
G5RV up 30ft
20 and 40

Bob Norris

> On Jul 7, 2020, at 12:44 PM, ralph phillips <ke5hdf at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Yep...using ic7300 with 20m and 40m dipoles at about 30 ft elevation at center...about 40 ft at the ends.
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> Noise level was very high 
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>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:21 AM -0500, "Rick Giuffre" <rickgiuffre at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 73,
>> Rick, KE5AOA
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