For several years I've been using my K2 to have a QRP station at our club's FD (Rochester MN - K0Z). They used to run kilowatts, but have settled on 100 watts, and aren't willing to use less. So, the QRP station is administratively a separate FD entry (W0LLN), it receives the x5 multiplier, and I get to help set up and take down, to share in the camaraderie, the food, the portapotty, and all the bonus points I feel I can justify -- I get the ARRL message from someone else, I claim the info table and the education, but the elected official never came over to me so I don't think I can claim that. Overall, it works well, and there are always a few people interested in what a simple station looks like.
I stick with S&P and paper logging -- I don't have enough battery power to keep a laptop going, and my iPad just won't do it. Next year maybe my CW will be up to running, and I'll get a more satisfying score. But I did get K6IE, who was at least as loud as anyone else -- QRP to QRP, halfway across the country. Peter W0LLN On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:15 AM, Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> wrote: > The West Valley Amateur Radio Association returned to Mora Hill above Los > Altos, Ca for field day. We used K6EI for our main call and W6ZZZ for GOTA. > This year we were 14A, QRP, battery and solar panel powered. We had the > luxury of lots of panels, so we were able to have a 120V utility for > running our computers. We also had enough extra power to run our fans etc., > as the temperatures on Saturday were in the high 90s (c36C or so). > > Note, we are not permitted to operate generators at night, so we don't use > them at all. > > We were in category 14A with 3 CW stations, 3 SSB stations, and 2 digital > stations on HF. VHF and UHF filled the rest of the transmitter slots. We > had separate triband antennas for CW, SSB, and digital with triband filters > to allow use of all three bands at once. We also had separate wire antennas > for 40M and 80M. GOTA had its own set of antennas. Getting all this set up > took the better part of the daylight on Friday. (Thanks ARRL for the rule > change that permits early setup Friday when it is cooler.) > > We minimize interference between stations on the same band by careful > antenna placement, running QRP, using Elecraft and Flex gear, and providing > adequate voltage to the radios. I could see our CW stations on the P3 while > operating digital, but they were just strong CW stations and caused no > interference. > > Our networked N1MM logging system lets us cheer every time we pass a QSO > count milepost, as well as providing lots of backup for the logs. > > Our GOTA operation was quite popular, with QSOs 150% of last year. Since > we are next to a popular trail in the San Antonio Open Space Preserve, we > get a lot of bicycle visitors. Some know about ham radio and others have > never heard of it. > > It appears our main operation QSO count was slightly ahead of last year, > but I haven't seen a full comparison yet. > > We got lots of people on the air, with some trying new modes for the first > time. I counted 21 people who actually made it into the group photo. > Everyone had a good time and went home tired. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------- > Bill Frantz | Re: Computer reliability, performance, and security: > 408-356-8506 | The guy who *is* wearing a parachute is *not* the > www.pwpconsult.com | first to reach the ground. - Terence Kelly > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to peter.wol...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
