[OKDXA] DX CONTESTING and FIELD DAY

[k5yaa at aol.com]

Georgie and Timmy and all my good friends that enjoy radios!
 
You may learn something today by reading the below item I found tossed in my trash can.
 
Your friend, K5YAA.
 
The sage advice is below so read on!   It is in the english language so people who only use microphones can read it.  Otherwise I would just send you a tape with our Beloved Morse on it.
 
Field Day and how to operate it for all to benefit!

Folks:

Moments ago I received a question from K5BZH and a concern about Field Day activities. The Tulsa ARC and American Airlines club may benefit from these answres.  Indeed contesters and clubs all over the world can if they will just have practice sessions now and then. 

The suggestions may even find their way into the classrooms of contesting university, a grand school of higher learning managed by K3LR. Timmy helps all of mankind just ask George W0GA <- I think that is his call. George or Georgie as his friends call him sends the morse WAY too fast for me. Georgie always looks magnificent in his shiny boxing shorts.  I think he wears those when he sleeps and when he is on the radio.

Georgie looks real important when he tugs at those shiny radio shorts of his. Just ask him but not when he is ringing the bell for the end of a contest.  Reminds me of a champion boxer in front of his ( most of the time others ) radios he hammers on.  Georgie is indeed impressive in those shorts. He tells me Timmy gave them to him and he always waits by the phone for Timmy to call him.  I don't think they talk every day.  They probably both have a pair of those shiny boxing shorts but Timmy hasd to do important wrk in the world whereas Georgie is like me and sits around playing on the radio all the time or arguing with somebody about frequency ownership.  I don't ever think his shorts off unless he is with some guy called the Gator. Gator and George love each other I think because you will hear them say - Thanks for the Mult, or get off my frequency you $*&#@$^&%% and then a bell sounds I guess noting the end of their rounds on the radio!  

Georgie and Gator smile alot at each other and other people.  Especially when they use their hammer to grab a frequency away from others.  I have also heard them say "Get OFF my Frequency you jackass or other things like "Get off my frequency you dumbshit". Take this Georgie and Gator will say, then I see smoke coming from somewhere. The bell rings again and Gator swaps seats with Georgie.  They both tell me they have abused a keyboard all their lives. He says, "Just ask my friend the Tree".  Whoever heard of a person named TREE that must be his last name.

Anyway, on to the advice I offer to Jim about how to do a field day and what a field day means..

All radio clubs every where might learn from the answers to Jim since I have been doing contesting for over 50 Years and have been to many field days, even one in a gun bunker in Newfoundland one time.!   Talk about dark and spooky.

I hope these answers find their way around the world like the radio signals I use to annoy neighbors!!

Here is Jim's question.

Says K5BZH,

Dear Jerry,

I have another radio question for you. I was told something a few days ago (by my brother) that somewhat bothers me, I figure some probably play the game described, but I have a hard time believing many do it. What am I talking about? 

Clubs running Field Day and not even logging contacts. Since you have gotten around a good bit, you might let me know if you have heard any of these stories or seen the practice? 

It frustrates me that some don't submit FD logs, and truthfully FD logs are merely a summary sheet. I guess that is OK, but it doesn't allow log checking.

I realize the ARRL takes the position that Field Day is not a contest. I would rather they took the position that it is More than a Contest. Why? Well so many positive things happen due to Field Day.

One time I attended a K3LR presentation. At one point I asked K3LR when he was licensed and what developed his interest in contesting. The answer was 1972 and Field Day. He attended a Field Day not long after he was licensed and got hooked into contesting.

FD is the place a lot of our VHF operators get their first taste of HF. It is the place many of the old geezers "discover" newer modes like PSK31. Those running a lot of stations learn about filters too. I could go on and on with this, but you are proabably aware of more things that happen at Field Day than I am.

Now the question about Club FD operations not even logging contacts as they work them, have you been aware of any of that?

Thanks your friend, Jim 

P.S. Over and Out as they say at Field Day - I also have heard ROGER CONTACT ( usually by a brisquet eater dripping sauce on the ground or wiping it from his face ) also I hear this next one all the time - it drives me nuts - they say PLEASE COPY almost continuosly. Even between bites of corn or spoon fulls of beans.

Here follows one hams answer to Jim.

Sure Jim, there are many things that happen at a Field Day.  I am glad to answer your questions. 

Field Day is a big eating contest for a lot of people. 

They keep track of how many sides of brisquet and ears of corn one guy can consume in a weekend. There are brisquet eating and corn eating contests at all Field Days. Just ask, Pete KF5RD, he has to cook those briskets for ham operator gatherings all over Tulsa. My son Mark has been learning how to do that too. Mark K5YAC has always been alert for things that are good in life. He is now beginning to manufacture some of his own. He is busy constructing an aircraft that will carry people. It is called a pee_on_the_pole or something like that. 

Man will never fly but I let Mark go on and see if he can invent air to fly his aircraft in. I need to have him see Doctor Jimmy, K5RX. Jimmy knows alot about air - I believe he specializes in the hot kind. Don't matter - air is air and K5KJ usually helps Jim manage his hot air.  Thanks Sam you are a keeper as they say.  Helping mankind that way.

Back to your question about Field Day and contesting in general before I have to take my meds as they call them nowadays. 

Seeing how long you can sit in a chair in the shade is another thing they do at a Field Day contest. 

They also scratch at the side of their britches a lot! Talking on or turning on a little black box on their belts. 

Guess that black box kills mosquitos like the termite boxes I see around buildings here in Claremore, Oklahoma and Tulsa town. FD is held outside you know.

I have seen guys stuff their logs with callsigns in REAL contests. I guess they thought they were at a Field Day operation and were hungry. Wanted to go eat but wanted to show a few more kids how to make contacts.

I don't now why any one would not want to log real QSOs unless it was at a Field Day somewhere or in a restaurant eating brisket or corn on the cob .  Maybe even having something cool to drink.

Respectfully,

Your friend Jerry 

AKA YAA NO not JA7YAA  or VE3YAA but K5