2000 ARRL FIELD DAY
Call used: K8MAD Location: OH
Category: Multi Operator Mode: ALL Power: 150W
If multi-operator, show calls of all operators and loggers:
K8CC, K8MR, K9NW, KU8E, W0CG, W8AJ, W8AV
CW SSB FSK
band QSOs QSOs QSOs
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80 316 346 0
40 744 610 0
20 386 218 0
15 88 40 0
10 34 15 0
50 12 228 0
144 11 33 0
Sat 12 1 0
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TOTAL 1603 1491 0
QSO points: 9,394
100% Emergency Power: 200
Satellite QSO: 100
Setup in Public Place: 100
Publicity: 100
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SCORE: 9,894
Station #1: TS930S, 80 zepp, 20 dipole, 10 dipole
Station #2: IC-765, 40 dipole (also used on 15)
Station #3: IC-746, 3L 6M yagi @ 27', 2M Boomer @ 30'
Biggest story of the weekend for us had to be the wx which made the first
hour of FD pretty exciting. The first blast of wind and rain at 1815Z,
which combined to split open the west end of the 40/15/VHF operating tent
along the bottom seam. As K8MR and I scrambled to attempt to close the
breach, KU8E (at the 40 CW station) noticed that the rain was so hard it
was misting through the roof of the tent. The next blast of wind split the
tent along the top seam, where the west wall and roof come together. Now
rain was pouring in directly on my IC-765 and Dell laptop. KU8E pulled the
power plug to the tent while K8MR and I went outside and were instantly
soaked trying to cover the damaged end of the tent with additional tarps.
Once the tent was (more or less) secured, we assessed the situation. The
transceiver was OK, but the MFJ DVK and Dell laptop were dead. Another
laptop was pressed into duty and we carried on, having lost about 45
minutes of operating time. I disassembled my laptop as much as I could,
and it spent the next four hours propped up in front of the heater vents in
my truck blowing air through it. Despite these efforts, it was next
morning before the laptop dried out enough to boot up.
Condx did not seem to be as good as last year, when short skip made the
high bands more productive from OH so we were down almost 300 QSOs from the
same setup last year. The VHF station matched its totals from last year,
including working some cool stuff on 50 MHz like C6, CO2, and a couple of
W6s. KU8E managed 13 QSOs on Oscar 12/13 in addition to the bonus.
Ultimately it was a fun weekend. A lot of the equipment worked
flawlessly. We just gotta get a new tent!
73,
Dave/K8CC
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