Field Day

[Alex Fraser]

Stacked beams on a Jeep?  It will take me a while to edit the video.
I visited Woodbridge Wireless and VWS sites.  I worked W4IY (Woodbridge) 
on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters, some at < 1/2 mile range on low power.  I 
was hoping to do the same with VWS, but ran into some honey do's Sunday 
morn and had to rush to Burke Lake B4 shutdown, so I didn't have time to 
find them on the bands.

HF propagation was poor on all bands.  I made 22 contacts in 2 days of 
occasional operating. I tried on 6 meters with the hope that some local 
was listening, but no joy. Ditto for 2 meter SSB.

I didn't finish my install till Saturday morn, so all testing and tuning 
of antennas was during the contest.

I had a blast!


On 6/16/2019 5:24 PM, Jacek Radzikowski wrote:
> VWS in Burke Lake Park. You'll probably like to see this guy's Jeep.
>
> Jacek
> kw4ep
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 5:17 PM Alex Fraser <beatnic50 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:beatnic50 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Connecting to the fuse box input terminal and a nearby ground gave
>     me 8 volts in the cab.  I got 12 volt with a local ground.  I
>     don't have time to foll with it so I connected direct to
>     battery.   I'm making a video for YouTube.
>     Is AMRAD doing FD?  If not perhaps members have other sites they
>     might attend?  Who are the big players?
>
>     On 6/10/2019 12:13 AM, Alex Fraser wrote:
>>     Earlier this year I towed my 94 Ranger to the scrap yard.  I had
>>     it set up for mobile ops, particularly Field Day. I pulled the
>>     setup out of the old truck before junking it.  I had the 12 volt
>>     line running right to the bolts on the battery clamps with inline
>>     fuses on pos and neg wires.  It was a bit awkward, but worked for
>>     15 years.  I now have a 2008 Ranger and I looked in the engine
>>     compartment today for a good hook up point. There is a large pair
>>     of wires (1/4 inch or more) running from the battery 18 inches to
>>     the engine compartment fuse box.  They are bolted on and it looks
>>     like a good place to hook up.  About 2~3 inches away is a ground
>>     bold welded to the chassis.   A concern I have is moving the
>>     connection away from directly on the battery.  Will RF gremlins
>>     be encouraged to mess with the trucks  systems?  Should I put
>>     chokes on the #6 wire I'm using?  Should I put a capacitor
>>     between pos and ground at the trucks fuse box?  I guess going the
>>     other way anything I do to keep the radio from putting RF into
>>     the truck will also work in keeping truck generated RF out of my
>>     rig, is that true?
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