Only the transmitter has to be on battery power. You can run a
computer, air-conditioner and television on a generator or even mains
power.
Buck, k4ia
Honor Roll
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On 6/26/2018 11:57 AM, Peter Wollan wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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
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