[OKDXA] Field Day

Tue Jun 26 12:46:48 EDT 2012

Hi Alan -

Good to hear from you.

All is well here. Field Day went pretty smoothly. We had to replace an 80-ft
run of coaxial cable that was bad.  Mac, K2GKK, didn't get on the air until
after 6:00 PM. We ran 3F from the Salvation Army Citadel. I'm not sure what
the final count was. I collected all of the N3FJP logs and passed them to my
son (NE5SD for Steve Duskin) who was the FC coordinator. We worked every
state except Nevada. We, the Oklahoma City Auto Patch Association (OCAPA),
have not had a serious field day operation in probably six years. It must be
the old age catching up. 

Don't know if you heard about Loyd Hargrove, AB5I. Loyd died a couple of
weeks ago from complications resulting for an organ transplant. Loyd was
only 64. He was very active and supported OCAPA. He maintained all of our
club repeaters for the last 19 years or so, and was always there for field
day. Great CW operator.

My son has been licensed for almost a year. He and his wife took our
Technician Class License classes and both passed. Both Steve and his wife
took the General Class test and passed it the following month and a month
after that he took and passed the Extra Class license test.

Ham Holiday is going well. I did all of the prizes again this year. We even
had a couple of nice ones donated. We are currently a little over $7000 in
prizes to be given away. This will be our second year with a banquet. Kay
Craigie, N3KN, ARRL President, will be the banquet speaker.

A group of us went to Dayton again this year. Those in my car left Dayton on
Sunday and we drove to Pennsylvania to get a private tour of Tim Duffy's
multi-multi contest station, K3LR. The pictures on the web don't do his
setup justice.

I am up to 320 confirmed (current) DXCC entities. New ones for me are
becoming very hard to get.

Best wishes to everyone. If you should get back this way be sure and stop.

73, Dave (NE5S)

-----Original Message-----
From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of N5PA
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:09 AM
To: Discussion of OKDXA
Subject: [OKDXA] Field Day

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

Email:   <mailto:n5pa at n5pa.com> n5pa at n5pa.com 

URL:      <http://www.n5pa.com/> http://www.n5pa.com 

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