Field Day

[fgentges at mindspring.com]

Alex,

We had really good prop on 6 meters during field day.  We picked up 140 
QSOs and I can understand how the signals, especially from Texas, would 
cover up weaker ground wave signals.  Nice setup for a quickie station 
and a chance to be part of all the fun.

Frank



On 6/27/2011 12:05 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
> I didn't end up working you guys, though I tried. There was such a good
> six meter opening on Saturday that it was hard to hear local stations.
> Instead of a dipole I ended up using a half wave vertical whip. I've
> used in in the past and had the mount already fabricated out of a 4x8"
> chunk of aluminum angle which I picked out of a scrap pile somewhere. I
> have a coil on it and an alligator clip for tuning the SWR. The antenna
> was real flat over the whole SSB part of the band, so once I found where
> to put the clip it was set. The whip is cut for ten meters and I have a
> short end part of another whip clamped to it. That makes the length
> adjustable. I can work 10 and 15 on the whip as a 1/4 wave and using the
> special mount (with coil) I use it as a 1/2 wave on 6 meters. I had the
> 6 meter 1/2 wave mounted on one side of the pickup and my screw driver
> antenna on the other. I drove around in circles on a parking lot to see
> if it affected the pattern for better or worse and there wasn't enough
> of a difference to mention with such an unscientific methodology, but I
> tried to keep the six antenna out front. I had no trouble in the pile
> ups. I worked the Canadian Maritimes to the north and down to Florida. I
> picked up Texas up through Minnesota, all told I got 20 contacts on six
> and 35 total, which is about what I average going mobile. I probably
> spend about 3 hours over the Field day period actually doing radio and
> the rest socializing and of course honey do's eat up some time.
>
> fgentges at mindspring.com wrote:
>> Alex,
>>
>> We will be around the bottom of the band operating with the call
>>
>> K4LRG
>>
>> We expect to work everything on 2 meters pretty quick and then spend
>> some serious time looking for 6 meter stations with skip.
>>
>> If you are driving around, come on by and try your hand at operating.
>> We need help. See
>>
>> http://www.k4lrg.org/Field_Day/2011/OPERATING_SCHEDULE/index.html
>>
>> Location is at http://www.k4lrg.org/Field_Day/2011/map.html
>>
>> and for your GPS try the address as:
>>
>> 38668 Sierra Lane,
>> Lovettsville, VA 20180
>>
>> Frank K0BRA
>>
>>
>> On 6/24/2011 12:25 AM, Alex Fraser wrote:
>>> I'm going mobile again this year. I like to work VHF. I can usually work
>>> local ssb VHF with vertical whips. I was out in the driveway looking at
>>> my trailer hitch and thinking of a welded mast for a six meter dipole I
>>> got. I got pulled over by a state trooper a couple of years ago when I
>>> had the dipole mounted on a sailboat mast bolted to the trucks tool box.
>>> I guess he couldn't think what to charge me with and he saw that it was
>>> mounted real good so he let me go.
>>>
>>> I assume you will be using k4lrg for the call sign? I'll keep an ear out
>>> for you guys. I use my call n3der c1 VA.
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