[W2CRA] Field Day Thoughts

[Kurt Cathcart]

Just  correction to a mis-spelling

"Cherryvill Repeater Association II"

should read

"Cherryville Repeater Association II"


-Kurt, KR2C


On 7/1/2020 9:29 AM, Kurt Cathcart wrote:
>
> All -
>
>
> Even though the turnout for Field Day was a bit lower than previous 
> years, the tenacious effort of those who started many weeks/months in 
> advance in preparation and those who showed up for set up and tear 
> down mad this a very successful event. Thank you all.  Some of the 
> cool new additions included:
>
>   *     Fancy new generator and tent
>   *     A new power grid  that will survive a nuclear blast
>   *     A cool donated trailer engineered into a tower/beam platform
>   *     Continued improvement in the logging network
>   *     New tent sides and top that were so white, they were blinding
>   *     Many other contributions that I missed.  I'm sure that you all
>     will remind me.
>
> However, please know that some of the regular Field Day attendees  
> were missed.  In some ways it seems less of a Field Day without you.  
> How can it be a Field Day without Bill's famous chili?  We missed the 
> American Flag.  And it still amazes me that we made any contacts at 
> all without Father Bill blessing our event.  Jane, our reigning 
> contact champion from last year, not being able to attend and mentor a 
> new champion.  Somehow we made it through.  How? I do not know.
>
> My plan is to compile the log data for a presentation at the next club 
> meeting.  Then we will crown the new contact champion.  By the way, 
> there was a hand written log in front of one of the stations that 
> could not be entered.  it was missing the band, the mode, and the 
> operator.  If you know the answer to this then please let me know.
>
> If you operated from home and you plan to submit a log, then please 
> reference the club in this exact format:" Cherryvill Repeater 
> Association II"
>
>
> I Hope to see you all at the next club meeting.
>
> -Kurt, KR2C
>
>
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