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drjim
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join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
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| Field Day!! Just around the corner, folks.
I'll be running the satellite and solar-powered stations for K6AA, United Radio Amateur Club of Los Angeles Harbor.
»www.k6aa.org/
We'll be running 6A, LAX at the Upper Reservation of Fort MacArthur in San Pedro.
Drop on by if you have time!
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jeffhambone
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join:2002-02-02
Manassas, VA
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| Re: Field Day!! said by n1zuk  :(snip) But I imagine I will again be working the overnight at the phone station, between the static crashes on 75M and ghosts on 40M. I hear ya. Last two times I was on a FD site (15 yrs ago or so), I let myself be talked into being the overnight 75m SSB guy. I think I left with a week-long headache each time...just call me a slow learner... 
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W8ASA
Tieng gi vay?
join:2000-07-31
Dayton, OH
clubs: | Re: Field Day!! W1NVT I think our club (W8DGN) worked you guys on a couple of
bands this weekend.
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join:2005-08-03
Ukiah, CA
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said by n1zuk :I won't carry on (again!) about our 2A Field day effort here in Vermont from W1NVT. Not too many changes from last year (most notably, loss of the 40M yagi on CW). Since I'm likely not going to be employed come Field Day, I guess I'll be able to spend more time on site. But I imagine I will again be working the overnight at the phone station, between the static crashes on 75M and ghosts on 40M. Sweet, I worked your group on 15 meter SSB near the end (W6MMM, 3A, SF)  .
Once I got on site and got hooked on HF, I decided to pull an all nighter. One of the other guys pretty much cleaned out 40 during the evening (I guess I got the people he couldn't get with his NVIS setup), so I spent most of the evening on 80 with some dabbling in 40. I got on 15 for a bit around sunset and it was pretty intense. I went back on it once the sun came up and stayed there until the cutoff time.
All in all I had a blast. I had a lot of contacts with the western part of the US and Canada, as well as one each in Austria and Japan. I can't wait for next year, although I'm not sure if I'll stay up all night. Being up for 33 hours straight in 105 F heat sure kicked my butt  .
We used N3FJP's networkable Field Day logging software, and it worked quite well with a few laptops wirelessly connected. I've attached the contact map (need to correct it, put LA instead of LAX on one contact) QSO average graph, and the setup I was using during the night. The trailer that I operated out of most of the time had an 40/80 dipole, and a 10/15/20 rotatable beam.
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n1zuk
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join:2001-10-24
South Burlington, VT
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| Re: Field Day!! said by n_w95482 :Sweet, I worked your group on 15 meter SSB near the end (W6MMM, 3A, SF) . Thanks for the QSO.
On SSB, we usually start the weekend on 20M, then work up to 40M and 75M after 20M goes long. On Sunday, we usually have worked out 20M, having talked to everyone on the band, so we run on 15M until the end of Field Day.
You most likely talked with Mitch, W1SJ, who was the guy wearing the "Offical Contest Shirt" in the FOX44 news piece I posted above.
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GeekNJ
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join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ
| I don't know what stations we'll have this year but I plan on spending as much time at our local OEM parking lot where we set up helping setup, operate, eat and tear down. I had a blast last Field Day (my first) and though I planned to go home and shower, I ended up going home overnight and operating on my own until the morning when I went back to where the club was. We operate as our club call of K2BAR with the bigger bands being 20m, 40m & 80m SSB and CW.
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | I may operate 1H or guest op with Sussex Cty ARC. | |
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tigers
join:2001-01-14
Irmo, SC | Problem we always had was that we'd worked everybody that we could hear and there wasn't much left out there. 75/80 in the south in the summer is a mess with all the QRN. | |
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KA3SGM
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West Chester, PA
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| Another year has passed, I can't believe it's almost time for Field day again.
Another opportunity to try and separate my kids from their video games, and try to get them back to studying for their ham ticket.
At least bringing them to Field day, to work a few 3rd party contacts, helps the Local ARES/RACES group earn some extra points for the contacts that they make, and a bonus for bring younger non-hams to the site, to get them interested in the hobby.
I don't know if or how much I'll be on the air, but listen up for W3EOC, West Chester, PA, on the air on Field day.
Unless you catch me running KA3SGM /1 Delta from my home, because my wife has me grounded(pun intended), doing yard work.
73
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drjim
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join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
clubs: | Re: Field Day!! Cool!
We'll be running as K6AA, our normal station callsign.
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drjim
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join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
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| Gonna be working to get my laptop running SatPC32 to control the Doppler on my radio this week. The Great Antenna Experiment in the girlfriend's back yard was a bust...the controller I was using just won't keep it's settings, so I'll either have my son run the antennas, or go with my eggbeaters.
Anybody else trying their stuff out early? At least I have everything *in one place* for the first time so I won't have to run back and forth from the FD site to my place to get things I forgot!
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GeekNJ
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Waldwick, NJ | Re: Field Day!! Congratulations! | |
| | SmokChsr
Who let the magic smoke out?
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join:2006-03-17
Saint Augustine, FL | Excuses,,Excuses... Some people will use any reason to wiggle out.. 
Ohh and congrats!!!  | |
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Robotics
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Louisa, VA | Congrats | |
| | Tommyastro
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Poughkeepsie, NY | You're excused! Congrats! | |
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