[3830] Rebecca's KB0VVT Kids Day Log and Field Day Story.

[David Rich]

Rebecca KB0VVT, Barbara KG0UT, and I had a great time during Field Day.
We helped setup
and operate the local club that is K0GQ 2A Missouri.  I was only
intending on staying at the site
three or four hours so as not to get Rebecca burned out.  She started
out helping put up vertical
antennas and running ground radials.  Rebecca and her mother did most of
their work on the HF
phone station probably making more than half of the 700+ phone
contacts.  Chances are, if you
contacted K0GQ on phone and heard a female voice it was either Rebecca
or her mother.    She
also helped make about 30 CW contacts on the CW HF station.  Several
hours went by and I
kept asking Rebecca if she was ready to go home and she said NO and
wanted to know if we
were going to camp out at the site.

Rebecca had a good time during the Kids Day Contest.  She and I had a
hard time understanding
some of those cute young voices with all the noise on the band.  Now we
understand why some
people had a hard time understanding her on SSB phone when she earned
her license.  It is too
bad that their is not a portion of 20 meters where people regularly run
narrow FM.  The kids
would sound excellent on narrow band FM.  Rebecca now primarily uses CW
where she has no
problem with people understanding her.  Many of the people, mostly guys,
get kind of excited
when they find out they are communicating with a ten year old especially
when they find out she
is a YL to boot.

Kids Day Contest Log:
Kenwood TS-850 100 Watts with R7 Vertical Up 30 ft.
Date: 20JUN98
Freq       Time    Call     Name    Age   QTH   Color
14.296    18:10    W7WM    CHRIS    11    CO    PURPLE
14.274    18:19    K1ZX    KAREN     6    CT    PURPLE
14.270    18:19    N7SJ    KAREN     7    AZ    PINK
14.274    18:21    K4TG    ALEX      7    TN    WHITE
14.274    18:35    WA1VHT  MELISA    9    NH    GREEN
14.274    18:37    WA1VHT  KATY      6    NH    PINK
14.274    18:40    K7RAT   JOSEPH    8    OR    BLUE
14.274    18:44    K7RAT   BECKA     5    OR    SILVER
14.274    18:46    K2UST   NORM           FL    WHITE
14.274    19:22    W7FVD   BOB      57    AZ    PINK
14.274    19:25    N7LR    NATALIE  11    AZ    GOLD
14.270    21:10    K1U     JEFFERY   8    MA    BLUE
14.270    21:15    WA1DBR  NORM           MA
14.286    21:26    N4DD    DENNIS   11    TN    BLUE
14.288    21:41    W6UE    MIKE     32    CA    PURPLE
14.288    21:57    K6EM    RICHARD  59    CA    GREEN
14.288    22:00    KQ6QW   BRIAN    36    CA    RED
14.287    22:17    AA3B    DIANNA   11    PA    PURPLE
14.289    22:30    W6SW    MAX      11    CA    GREEN
14.290    23:00    K7YQI   TOM      70    AZ    BLUE
14.290    23:01    WD6EAW  TOM            OR    RED
14.290    23:02    KJ7QT   LARRY          AZ    RED
14.290    23:09    KI6X    CHUCK     6    CA    BLUE
14.290    23:21    K6XX    LISA      4    CA    BLUE AND PURPLE
14.290    23:22    K6XX    SARAH     8    CA    PURPLE
14.274    23:32    K1EA    JESSE     8    MA    BLUE
14.291    23:44    NI2P    DALE     35    NY    BLUE


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