[OKDXA] Field Day

[N5PA]

Dave:

 

I had to go over to our farm in Franklin County, Mississippi and do some
work on the house over there.  On the way back I stopped for a few hours in
Brookhaven, MS and ran CW for them for a while and had a good time.  They
were not really interesting in racking up a big score, just having a good
time and exposing outside people to ham radio, which they did a lot of.
There were a lot of elected officials, police officers, and the general
public that kept a steady stream of people coming into the facility that we
were operating in.  They had a test session at noon and several new
licensees and several upgrades came out of the session.  They had a couple
of Windom antennas strung up in the top of the Pine Trees at about 100 feet,
one pointing east and the other west.  They worked very well considering how
bad band conditions were.  They had a TS-570S on the CW station, but the rig
was not interfaced with the software so I had to use some unfamiliar Iambic
Paddles to operate with.  They must have had an eighth of an inch separation
between the contacts and I finally got them down to my liking and took off.
I worked for a couple of hours and had a good time.  A thunderstorm came up
just in our localized area and we had to get off the air for a while and I
decided to head home, another hour and twenty minutes away.  I do not
remember working anybody from Oklahoma, but I worked a lot of Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota.
I worked a lot of the east coast from Florida to Maine, but I was on 20
meters the whole time and never worked anybody close in.  This was a general
interest club and there were not any contesters in the bunch, they were
there to have a good time and introduce the public to ham radio, which they
did a great job of.  There were a steady stream of visitors coming through
the whole time I was there.  I had fun, they had fun, and that is what it is
all about.  No need taking FD seriously when you are working with a general
interest radio club.  I hope you guys had a good time working FD!

 

73,

Alan Clark, N5PA

Ellisville, MS

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