[CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day

[Zack Widup]

Our local club had a great site on a farm that we used for decades. Then
either the farm got sold or the owners got too old and we lost that site. We
tried several others for some years but they just weren't the same. For the
last couple years and this year we use a county park about 4 miles north of
town that we really like (well, at least I do).  Very nice location.

I think I've only missed FD a couple years in my 42 year ham career. It's
one of my favorite weekends!

See you from K9CU. I'll probably do most of the 40m CW operating.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Bill Parry <bparry at rgv.rr.com> wrote:

> I disagree. I am sure that there are many field day locations that could be
> considered "fun". Field day in my area is not.  I stopped participating in
> field day (outdoors/generator) sometime ago. This time of year is entirely
> too uncomfortable (maybe dangerous). We are hitting 100+ degrees (not
> unusual) every day, and the humidity is high. I realize that disasters
> don't
> wait for nice springtime days, but I suspicion that if the weather here
> were
> spread to the entire country, the participation level of field day would
> drop dramatically.
>
> I do like to participate and get on from my home and make number of
> contacts
> to support the guys that have gone to the effort to put on a real field day
> station.
>
> Bill W5VX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Felipe J Hernandez
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:15 PM
> To: N7DF; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day
>
> There are not many if you run 1d,  now trying to operate while handling
> generators.
> logging networks, turning antennas manually, the heat creating all kinds of
> disconforts
> you know where, the bugs bitting, people asking what are you doing?, people
> asking to give them a chance to operate, people stuffing you with more
> hotdogs your body can handle.
>
> working guys calling you at 3 wpm and all those vhfers that only use the
> low
> bands on FD.
> dealing with the letrines, copying the dreaded arrl bulletin, working some
> vhf/uhf/microwave.. OMG the list will never end..
>
> After all that if you can run the very high rates of qsos of FD and not
> feel
> challenged
> then my friend you are superman!
>
> on a serious note, FD is the only activity that will prepare you to OPERATE
> under challenging conditions like a real disaster or a DXpedition, if you
> ask me, "contest like" 1D's ruin the fun.
>
>
> Felipe
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: N7DF
>  To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>  Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:13 AM
>  Subject: [CQ-Contest] adding challenges to field day
>
>
>  Field Day is fun but there are not really a lot of operating challenges to
> it.
>  One way to liven things up would be to set some operating goals other than
> just making the most contacts possible.
>  By giving point bonuses to various operating achievements things could be
> made a lot more interesting.
>  Here are some ideas;
>  1 point for each ARRL Section and DX country worked per mode on each band.
>  100 bonus points would be awarded for a clean sweep
>  100 bonus points would be awarded for working 100 DX countries
>
>  73
>  Larry
>  N7DF
>
>
>
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