[CQ-Contest] Is it time to move Field Day earlier in the year?

[Joseph B. Fitzgerald]

>The local club - The Columbus Amateur Radio Club, W4CVY,  treats K4BAI
>and I like royalty since we are usually the only CW operators every
>year.


My non-ham Dad still loves to tell the story of the year (2003?) he and I happened to be in Columbus on Field Day weekend to help my brother get his new house ready as the Army was transferring him to Fort Benning.     We had stopped at the Walmart to get painting supplies for the house, and I spotted the FD antennas and trailers at the far end of the parking lot.    "Joe introduced himself with his call sign, and they treated him like a long lost brother!"  he says and goes on to talk about sitting for lunch with Jeff and John while I worked a few folks on 40M CW.    It is a great memory for both of us!


There is something "wrong" with any weekend for Field Day.   No bugs during Winter Field Day here in New England, but my fingers get a little cold on the paddles sometimes, and one year we had to cancel entirely as the site was buried in snow and the plow guy was not contracted to work on weekends.    Consider doing a POTA/SOTA operation instead on a day convenient for you that suits the local climate instead.

de KM1P Joe