Field Day

[Dan Romanchik KB6NU]

Sorry to hear that propagation was poor on the East Coast. Here in Michigan, the bands were pretty good, actually, at least 20m and 40m. The problem here was that it rained all day, and the winds were incredibly high. The tent we put up for the GOTA tent was completely demolished, and it was even a bit scary in the campers that a couple of guys dragged out.

73!

Dan KB6NU
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On Jun 28, 2015, at Jun 28,2:33 AM, Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:
> HF propagation Saturday was as bad as I've seen it on  FD.  As a C1 I only made 4 contacts. I tried many more than that, but the only stations getting out were home stations (with towers and amps) and they all had pile ups of course.
> 
> Tomorrow is another day!
> 
> Alex Fraser wrote on 6/25/2015 11:21 PM:
>> 
>>     I missed FD last year, just mixed up the weekend.  I'm kind of looking forward to it, real radio stuff for a change.  
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>>     I mounted my screwdriver antenna on my truck today.  I first mounted it on the truck about 10 years ago so the work goes very quickly.  I've not decided if I will have 6 meter this year.  I use a half wave  whip for 6 and if I find the mount it is a bolt on mount with matching network built on.  Sometimes I also have a 3/8 " mount for playing around, but with all the rain expected Saturday it might not be any fun tuning 20 & 15 meter whips.  I'll use a mag mount dual band antenna for 2 and .70 meters, you don't get many contacts, but since I use an Icom 706 it isn't much trouble and I think it important to at least try. 
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>>     This year I'll drag one of my Chinese 2.4 GHz quad copters along.   I'm curious how they will behave around a lot of RF.  WWI set up near by, they run a few stations and have some beams, should be interesting.  I'll try and get some aerial videos, which is I guess a pun?
>> 
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