Field Day

[dnelms]

Work a few stations from home on 6m ssb, was my first time doing any DX. Worked N0SS and K2CT up in NY. I dont remember the call sign up it was the field day up in montreal canada, what 1000 miles from here? But I was not able to cut thru the pile up before it faded out.

All this on a MFJ-9406 with a vertically polarized antenna in my attic with less than 10w pep. I was pleased with myself what with being a first time and all.

 

[ve3zo]

VE3OW 5A ON

4 ssb stations
1 digital station doing RTTY/PSK

Great work by all the participating stations!!!!!

 

[k9rzz]

I remember working someone last year that was 16A or something crazy like that. 16A !

 

[IowaGuy1603]

I remember working someone last year that was 16A or something crazy like that. 16A !

I worked a 25A this year...................we got them on 15 meters and 20 meters phone.

Out east somewhere

 

[KK4DAN]

I worked a 25A this year...................we got them on 15 meters and 20 meters phone.

Out east somewhere

I remember distinctly working two different 25A's. It would have been 15 or 20m too. I think there was a 13A in there also. We were just a 3A our self.

 

[mass-man]

The 25A is in Maryland and we have worked them for many years...the logs are not on this computer or I would look up the call. There is an online video of their operation and what a thing of beauty. We did 3A NTX this year from a new location. The CW stations rocked...the SSB fellow followed suit...the PSK op was having computer problems so got up from the desk just as 6 opened! I sat down and worked over 180 Q's in three hours or so...what a blast. I am usually the organizer/cook/fixit guy, but an avid 6 mtr op so for me it was a very good FD

 

[IowaGuy1603]

The 25A is in Maryland and we have worked them for many years...the logs are not on this computer or I would look up the call.

Yep 25A MDC

I don't have access to the the logs either.

 

[ve3zo]

N3ALN


here is the 25a station..

 

[IowaGuy1603]

N3ALN


here is the 25a station..

Yea-----------------we were a bunch of guys in 3 campers and 706's hooked up to a couple dipoles/

 

[KK4DAN]

Wow, that 25A station setup is really impressive!

 

[OpSec]

Who in the midwest worked the 13A powerhouse out in Colorado...W0NT or similar? The 6m station was loud and had a pile-up on it for most of the contest. I sniped some east coast contacts off of the pile, but never could get the W0 to hear me. I think it was a matter of too many stations, because I got several other contacts about that distance away in WY and TX. Talked over their heads to several CA sections also, including LAX.

 

[mtindor]

W3AO (the 25a station) was everywhere. I worked W0NT twice, once on 10m and once on 6m. They were extremely strong into Ohio.

Mike

 

[IowaGuy1603]

W3AO (the 25a station) was everywhere. I worked W0NT twice, once on 10m and once on 6m. They were extremely strong into Ohio.

Mike

I worked two Colorado stations---------'BOTH were very faint .............the LAX station I worked was loud and clear. (from eastern Iowa on 15m)

 

[Spedz]

Contact

I was visting a friend on Saturday of field day (also another ham KA9QLQ). When I kept hearing a air mobile on my HT on 2m. I finally got him ( I was at KBAK AIrport and he WS9C was at 6500 Feet in a Cherokee 180 over Bedford IN) I think that was about the neatest contact I have ever made. Although I am still a tech for the time being (Taking General this month) it was pretty nifty

 

[IowaGuy1603]

I was visting a friend on Saturday of field day (also another ham KA9QLQ). When I kept hearing a air mobile on my HT on 2m. I finally got him ( I was at KBAK AIrport and he WS9C was at 6500 Feet in a Cherokee 180 over Bedford IN) I think that was about the neatest contact I have ever made. Although I am still a tech for the time being (Taking General this month) it was pretty nifty

I heard one station working another who was Marine Mobile.

I remember working an air mobile on 2 meters one day----------------just out of the blue I heard him on 146.52.

He was well over 200 miles away...............neat contact.

 

[Canadave]

We were 2C Ontario marine mobile. We anchored offshore in western Lake Ontario. We had 2 stations set up on my sailboat: a 40/80 meter station using a wire tied to a weather balloon off the stern, and a 20 m dipole strung from the top of the mast to the bow.

We worked SSB, PSK31 and a couple of RTTY's. We only worked for the afternoon on Saturday, and about an hour on Sunday morning, but we managed over 200 QSO's.

Dave
VA3DHX