Operated at a site that used 100% K3 HF rigs (K5FD) FD Rules allow you to setup both Thursday and Friday night!!!
No class A or B station may begin its set-up earlier than 0000 UTC on the Friday (Thursday afternoon or evening local time) preceding the Field Day period. Cumulative set-up time shall not exceed a total of 24 hours. A good thing for OLD timers!! 73 Robert W5AJ -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie T, K3ICH Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 9:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] FW: FD Propagation I may be interpreting the rules incorrectly, but I think unless you started your total set-up at 1800, you could only operate 24 consecutive hours, so most everyone called it quits at 1800 on Sunday. Propagation was still there but 95% of the stations timed out. Only those stations that started their complete set-up, including stringing antennas etc. after 1800 could operate until 2100. If you set-up Friday for example, then Field day was a 24 hour affair. Of course, you COULD have started later for example, at 2100 on Saturday and quit 24 hours later, but I don't think anyone did that. 73, Charlie k3ICH -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dauer, Edward Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 8:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] FD Propagation At about 1930 Z last Sunday, during the final hours of FD, it seemed that HF propagation completely collapsed where I was. Ten went away, not ever having been open much, then 15 went completely dead, 40 at about the same time except for some locals, 80 had been useless all afternoon, and finally by about 2000Z there were only eight or ten signals left on 20. Finis, all done, as quickly as I’ve ever seen it. I went CL with over an hour of contest left. Was I alone in seeing that at my Colorado mountain QTH? Maybe I was just too tired to listen any more? (Not entirely OT – I was using a K3 at the time.) Ted, KN1CBR ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
