KC0KM
Member
My brief report for the Raytown, MO, K0GQ Field Day operation. I just got home a little while ago, after spending most of my time at the event. It started Friday, and although I had to work, set up began at 1300 local time. I got off work at 4:00 PM, went home relaxed for a few minutes, before going up there. I was able to use the tent from work (one of those pop up tents), and took it up there. By the time I got there most of the towers where up, although we did have to pull one down to fix a rope. After dinner, I went back and helped set up the Beverage Antenna, losing my new name tag in the process, and hung around to around 10 PM.
Saturday I went up around 10 AM, to look for my name tag, not intending to stay very long. But the Beverage had blown down over night, and I helped set it back up -- until almost 1 PM. Went home, at lunch, and went to bed, sleeping until about 5. Went to the site, but did not operate until late -- around 10 PM doing PSK31 on GOTA (had a minor mishap when the radio stopped TXing, but was replaced, and I went back to it until it died around 2-3, but back on at dawn. I bounced between doing nothing and playing second chair at Phone. My last 3-4 hours was at phone, where we did 1712 contacts. All total I think I heard we have 4500 contacts (all total).
Raytown, K0GQ is one of the top rated operations in the nation. Last year on 2A we where 5th, with an average of being in the top 3 in the past 5 years (they first in 2007). For State/Division we are first (all classes), and average about 35 overall in all classes.
I have included a few pictures I took with my phone. I did not include our VHF/UHF, but the first one is the primary trailer, which is owned by the city EOC. To the left is Phone, the right GOTA. THe next ones are CW, with it's tower, and other antennas, and the last one is the satellite. There are co course other various of antennas not shown.
73
KC0KM (a very tired ham)
Saturday I went up around 10 AM, to look for my name tag, not intending to stay very long. But the Beverage had blown down over night, and I helped set it back up -- until almost 1 PM. Went home, at lunch, and went to bed, sleeping until about 5. Went to the site, but did not operate until late -- around 10 PM doing PSK31 on GOTA (had a minor mishap when the radio stopped TXing, but was replaced, and I went back to it until it died around 2-3, but back on at dawn. I bounced between doing nothing and playing second chair at Phone. My last 3-4 hours was at phone, where we did 1712 contacts. All total I think I heard we have 4500 contacts (all total).
Raytown, K0GQ is one of the top rated operations in the nation. Last year on 2A we where 5th, with an average of being in the top 3 in the past 5 years (they first in 2007). For State/Division we are first (all classes), and average about 35 overall in all classes.
I have included a few pictures I took with my phone. I did not include our VHF/UHF, but the first one is the primary trailer, which is owned by the city EOC. To the left is Phone, the right GOTA. THe next ones are CW, with it's tower, and other antennas, and the last one is the satellite. There are co course other various of antennas not shown.
73
KC0KM (a very tired ham)
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