Field day 2017

[prerunner1982]

6m and 10m were good from here to the East Coast. 15m was good too.

Glad you got your grand daughter on the radio and neat she was able to turn around and teach the next kid how to do it.

[prerunner1982]

I got to the Field day site about 0830 expecting the tower to be about 1/3 put together as we have a cantilever tilt over tower we use for FD, much to my surprise the tower was going up already. It seems the club member that had the old tower decided it was time for us to move up in the world and built a trailer with a crank up tower. Saved us about 3hrs of assembly and raising.

In total we had 6 antennas and 6 radios.

Except from 9pm-11pm when I went home to put my kids to bed and spend a minute with my wife I was at FD until we 2pm Sunday when everything was taken down and packed up.

I operated some 20m voice and digital, 40m digital, 80m voice and digital, 10m digital and 6m voice. Had a great time, though a little tired.

[prerunner1982]

We were serenaded by corvettes doing time trials from 8am until 2pm both days. There are worse things to have to listen to.

It's funny, one of the club members went down there and was taking pics and video of the vettes running laps when he was confronted by a police officer and advised the group did not want the public to photo/video and was made to leave. This members wife works for the local newspaper and flashed her MEDIA creds and they were all up in her butt trying to show her all their cars and what what they were doing.

We figure they didn't want the pictures/videos getting out where their insurance companies could see them racing their cars. I did manage to get a couple pictures and a video before I "peeled" out of there. (see what I did there. )