Our experience with the sprinkler system was when we set up tents on a school athletic field (one of our members taught there, and he swore he had arranged for this not to happen) and one of our tents with no floor was set up right on top of one of the pop-up units. The guy who picked the spot had to siy on an upturned 5 gal bucket until we got them off.
Jim K0XU [email protected] On Thu, May 21, 2026, 13:30 Chris via Elecraft <[email protected]> wrote: > Many years ago a couple friends and I got city permission to hold a > Field Day in a city park in Albuquerque. > > We had a large fluorescent pink awning (from a life raft) over our > picnic table, and wire dipoles on guyed poles. It made for great PR, as > the eye-catching color was obvious, and the local newspaper covered the > story in the Sunday edition. > > The problem arose around 1 AM when the automated sprinklers came on - > the large volume, long-stream slowly rotating our way! We made some > quick guesses about the location of the controls, and dashing over we > found the control box was unlocked, and were able to turn off that > night's watering schedule. Whew! The other guys were dropping the awning > over the table of radios as the sprinklers shut down. Then we resumed > operation till noon. > > It seemed like such a good setup, but we overlooked that one item. All > the gear was saved. > > 73, > > Chris, K0PF > > > On 5/21/2026 10:09 AM, David Cutter via Elecraft wrote: > > We stepped out of our tiny caravan one morning to find we were axle deep > in > > water. > > > > David G3UNA > > > > On Thu, 21 May 2026 at 16:49, Michael Needham via Elecraft < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Many years ago I got permission from my National Guard commander to take > >> one of our shop rigs and generator sets to FD .I set up the generators > and > >> a rigged up interface the NG had built to supply civilian plug-ins , > now > >> mind you we in the past had small generators vs the two 10 Kw generator > set > >> I just showed up with. > >> It was fun to see my club members discover that there was enough power > to > >> run all the stations plus air-conditioned custom van , plus lights . > >> So Saturday afternoon som of my friends walked up while I was making a > >> generator swap over which involved having both generators operating > and a > >> heavy duty snap action change over switch that swapps the load over. > >> My friends were staring at the control panel and expressed concern > that > >> the clubs equipment was too much load for the generator , I had to > laugh > >> as I pointed out they was looking at the Cycles Per Second gage not the > >> load meter , we were holding at 60 CPS and 10 to 15% load , where when > my > >> unit was in the field we ran these generators at 100% load for the > >> duration of the drill. > >> It was a conversation with would pop up many times later about "That > time > >> we had more power than we knew what to do with". > >> > >> Michael WB7SKK > >> > >> > >> On Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:54 AM jimk8mr--- via Elecraft < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Many years ago I was operating after dark, from a table under a > picnic > >>> fly. When suddenly my pretty new IC-746 jumped off the operating table, > >>> onto the ground! > >>> A departing operator had caught the feedline on his car's rear bumper. > >>> Fortunately I had an SWR bridge in line, the coax to it acting as a > >>> mechanical fuse to keep the radio from going any further. The op did > >>> realize what had happened and stopped to check things out, so my radio > >>> would not have accumulated may miles. But it still worked! > >>> > >>> 73 - Jim K8MR > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________________________ > >>> 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] > > -- > “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, > There’s always laughter and good red wine. > At least I’ve always found it so. > Benedicamus Domino!” > ― Hilaire Belloc > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
