This is one of those traditions of Ham Radio that must, well should, be respected.
It is called FIELD DAY. It is not a contest, it was/is a demonstration of the
ability of Amateur Radio Operators to communicate with other Amateur Radio Operators while using portable stations.
So even if you don't have a local club, just jump in as a home station and enjoy it all.
Go to WWW.ARRL.ORG and search for FIELD DAY and have some fun.
Dan/W4NTI
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Will try to work FD on 275. Hopefully Tolassi (the incredible shrinking brain) and Carol Sue (the Canadian anti-Christ) will be at the gay bath house and leave us be so we can play radio.
God Bless!
Clayton
Howdy Dan:
THE WORST conditions for Field Day I've EVER experienced in my 38 years of hamming. I'm really getting worried that Cycle 24 is gonna be a big bust.
I did make the best of it, though. Ran into a lot of young people down on ten meters last night....E-skip. So I spotted them on the Cluster to get 'em some contacts. One teenage YL got so upbeat after making a QSO with me and a few of the other OM's on her contest frequency, her voice just perked right up and she was really having fun!
Moral of the story: If conditions suck for you, go make them better for somebody else. You might just make their day.
73, Bill - WA8MEA
Clayton,
Hey good hearing from ya. I took a spin by on Kentucky Fried Morons private push (Army speak for frequency). And all I heard was Mikey slapping the contesters around. Oh well, no body ever said Mikey had any tact, now did they? hi.
I just played a few hours on Sat and even less on Sunday due to WX.
Had fun, CW of course.
Dan/W4NTI
Hey Bill,
Boy you got that right. Then on top of the crummy propagation there were thunderbumpers all around. I just passed some Q's out from the house.
The local club around here is too eat up with their own importance with EMCOM to know how to do a field day.
You know, burnt hot dogs, failed generators, rain in the 6146 cage and watching it all catch fire....hi.
So, as usual I just stayed home and played a bit.
I heard that on ten, but it didn't last long for me. Think all I heard was a couple stations on phone and zip on CW.
Good show.
Dan/W4NTI
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