So I have been invited to substitute for the long standing CW station captain in this year's Field Day (W6CUS, EB Section) which I consider an honor..... and a challenge! I doubt I will get anywhere
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:18:25 -0500
The Corsair II has the RF performance to survive your plans, and has fewer front panel controls to get messed up by the casual user. I think you'll find this year that you will need 40m and 80m anten
The Corsair should be a good FD choice. Add the ICE bandpass filters, and add an NVIS low dipole for 80m and 40m and you should have a good all around station. Stuart K5KVH Contrary to popular belief
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 21:45:09 -0500
Works a lot better for FD than an 80 m dipole a half wave high. One time we had access to windmill towers that high and put one up. We couldn't work much at all around Iowa, but heard the coasts well
Amen, Jerry. Our FD goof was putting up Vee beams too high one year, and the first stations worked were on the coast,and then everything skipped over from there. We went back to a low Extended Double
NVIS and Field Day, that reminds me of my very first Field Day. We had not put up an 80 meter antenna, but I wanted to try the band in the evening, so I cut a 1/4 wave length of coax, strung ot throu
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 19:19:44 -0500
So your fingers warmed up when you touched the rig with key down. Low horizontal wires worked on 80 meters for eons before the term NVIS was invented to justify them replacing military specifications