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<font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">As usual I went mobile
for field day. I have a screw driver antenna and this year I
added a capacitive hat over the coil. I figured 20, 40 and 75
would be the open bands. I had to erase all my old magic marker
marks on the antenna as it tuned much lower. Things went as
predicted on Saturday. I worked 20 and 40 with lots of noise.
Mostly the band was short, New England, Georgia and out to Ohio
and Michigan. Sunday was a surprise, 15 was open. I tried to
tune on 10, but even after taking the hat off I couldn't tune
below 29 MHz with a good SWR. SO I rushed home and put on a
stubby whip on the top of the Screwdriver and made contacts on
10. I tried 6 meters and it too was open. Normally I have
antennas for 6, but I just didn't think it would open this
year. So I parked on my driveway and scrambled to install my
half wave whip for 6. I got it installed just in time to make
a last minute contact on 6 before the contest ended.<br>
All in all I had a good time. I had 35 total contacts and
didn't crash my truck.<br>
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