Category: Field Day
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2025 Field Day results are out!
December QST arrived about a week ago (I still pay extra for the print version) and after reading the Elecraft KH1 review (more about this later) I browsed the rest of the magazine and much to my surprise, there were the Field Day results! I scanned 1B – Battery – Single Op several times and…
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Field Day 2025
It’s like the opposite ends of the spectrum, really; 10 years ago I was doing Field Day with a big club; 8 or 10 stations, each in their own tent, running from a big generator set and operating the full 24 hours … a couple of times I was even the chair, and wore my…
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Field Day, coming right up
The 28th and 29th, this year, or about 3 weeks from today. Just saying that amounts to more planning than I did last year … Just guessing here; probably from a state park, with the equipment in my radio pack, for a few hours on Saturday / Sunday / both. I can imagine other options,…
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huh, wow, blindsided by Field Day again
Check back after the weekend to find out how I deal with it Updated, July 1st: Never was able to get a block of time freed up to do radio, either Saturday or Sunday. Next year!
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A post about many things
re: Field Day 2023 The December issue of QST arrived a while ago and I invested maybe 15 minutes looking through the fine print for my score: 440 points. I think that my claimed bonus for Public Information Display was rejected; not unfairly mind you, it was a bit skimpy. Eh, surest way to fail…
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Field Day, Day 2
The rain did quit sometime overnight, so I got up a bit before 4:00, made plenty of coffee, and got on the road back to Wildcat Mountain State Park, K-1480. Though I drove slowly and watchfully to avoid deer, I was at the park a few minutes before it opened at 6:00. (Deer are termed…
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Field Day, Day 1
My planning for Field Day was kind of sketchy, and not at all ambitious, so I grabbed my radio pack after lunch and arrived at Wildcat Mountain State Park a bit before 2:00, or already almost an hour into the event. It took me about 20 minutes to set up the X6100 and the 20…