Without shame, I am hereby checking in with my 5 SSB QSOs using my barefoot KX3 and PX3 at our weekend camp on picturesque Lake George. Hey I broke some serious pileups to get them. I deserve some cred. :)
Flying the end fed antenna end from my WonderPole, the owner of the camp espied me and asked, "Nice pole. What are you after?" "Electrons," I answered with a straight face. His face broke into a big sunny smile. Turns out he's not only interested in hamming himself but also runs a private girl's school and they are heavy into the STEM thing (no "A", please) and we ended up our f2f by making plans for a Skype session for the girls for later this year for me to chat about that voodoo that we do. I did offer him a GOTA session. Sadly he never made it over. He was busy opening cabins and getting his properties ready for the summer. After I was done and packed up, the nieces and nephews took a page out of my kids' playbook by chanting "Whiskey Charlie Three Tango" for the rest of the weekend. Hey, I've been called worse. I have lots of notes on what went wrong (the two biggest: CW CW CW is next on the priority list. And either configure digimodes to run on this laptop or get a more powerful one) and what went right. As Ahnold would say, "I'll be back." On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 23:40 <[email protected]> wrote: > FD was a hoot from the farm here in southside Virginia. The KX2, an Alpha > Delta dipole, and N1MM+ on a $99 Kodak laptop performed flawlessly. The > most amazing thing was 10m! Since I embarked on my QRP CW adventure 4 > years ago I had logged not a single 10m contact. This weekend I bagged 26 > Qs on 10m, and as many on 15m. My total of 212 in 6 hours of operation > certainly thrilled me! I really miss the FD social events of the late > 1980's in Greensboro, NC. But when you are trying to bust a pileup with > 5-watts who has time for socializing? > Ken ke4rg > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick > Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 6:30 PM > To: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Elecraft] Field Day Report > > A large group gathered for the K6SRA 3A/SCV FD operation in San Jose. > Despite temperatures in the mid-90 s and blistering sunshine, we had many > visitors, including a lot of curious non-hams. > > This tends to be a social event with lots of conversation and ad-hoc > experimentation with radios and antennas, so I won t be bragging about our > claimed Field Day score. Still, a good time was had by all, with vast > quantities of water and other liquids consumed to avoid heat stroke. > > Late Saturday afternoon I undertook a brief solo trek to exercise the KX2. > I had intended to climb a nearby hill. Given the outrageous temperatures, I > settled for a picnic table on the other side of the parking lot, beneath a > large oak. > > Normally I would have tossed a wire into this tree. Instead I used a > prototype 2-band, 4 whip, in keeping with the two QSOs per foot > challenge we proposed in a recent Elecraft newsletter. I made 10 QSOs over > the course of about 20 minutes (that s 3.00 Q/ft, for those keeping score), > ranging from KH6 to the East Coast. > > Overall, conditions were not thrilling. 20 meters was pretty much > single-hop until Saturday evening. 15 m was deceased until this morning > when, back at the home QTH, I noticed things picking up on this band around > the same time as some sporadic-E kicking in on 6 m. > > Wayne > N6KR > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 PA Army MARS, Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ 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]
