ARRL Field Day - 2023
Call: W1HIS
Operator(s): W1HIS
Station: W1HIS
Class: 1E LP
QTH: Old Lyme, CT
Operating Time (hrs): 1.9
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80:
40: 21
20: 10
15: 17
10:
6:
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 48 0 0 Total Score = 192
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
My only antenna was a Lazy-H vertical dipole, 30 ft high, resonant at 1.8 MHz,
and fed via common-mode-choked RG-303. The feedline SWR was terribly high and I
estimated feedline loss to be 8 dB at f = 7 MHz. However, my low-pass L-network
tuner presented load Z = (50+j0) ohms to my transceiver on every band.
I could hear, and copy, many stations; but VERY few (the loudest) answered my
calls; and I had to repeat my call and exchange many times. This was the most
difficult and frustrating Field Day I've experienced in decades. I've done
better with 10-watt, battery-powered transmitters.
Next month I hope to erect half-wavelength dipole antennas for 80m, 40m, and the
higher HF bands; and then I expect to enjoy operations on all the HF bands.
My station (and my entire house with laundry & cooking appliances, well pump
and central a/c running) was powered by a 48-kW Kohler generator. Ridiculous
overkill but SOooo easy. I flipped one switch to disconnect utility power, and
the generator auto-started.... The 1- and 2-kW portable generators and gasoline
cans I've used for past field operations and MARS exercises sat in the garage.
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