Mike:

I recall hearing  W5W last evening on 40 meters at some point, but you were
responding to a CQ, and didn't think it would be too much appreciaated if I
tried to briefly hijack the frequency to call you.

When I did hear W5W, the RST was a solid 579 here at the RV in Michigan.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


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On Behalf Of Mike Duke, K5XU
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 6:29 PM
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Subject: Field Day Report

We had a relatively slow, but much better than last year, FD effort. 
This time, we had about 30 people who actually operated, with several taking
shifts overnight.

There were two of us operating the CW station, which quit just before noon
today with 275 contacts. That was just about the combined total of the phone
and digital stations.

I spent all of yesterday afternoon on 15 meters, and eventually worked
everything I could hear, before moving to 40.

This morning, 10 finally opened, and I spent the last hour or so there,
working as close in as TN, and as far away as RI. My antenna was a G5RV.

Because the conditions were so bad yesterday, we did not put up the 6 meter
dipole that I brought. It would have been nice to have it this morning, but
we didn't stop working the hf bands to put it up for such a short time.

We operated from a communications trailer and a 2 room office trailer that
belong to the Salvation Army. This meant that we ran the whole operation,
including air conditioning, from the generator that is on the communications
trailer.

We had the HF antennas a bit too close to each other, so we didn't have as
much flex ability to change bands as we may have had if we had spread them
out a little more. Hopefully, we can correct that problem next year.

Our location was a city park in down town Pelahatchie, MS, about 30 miles
east of Jackson. It was 30 yards from the railroad track, and about that
distance from the police station, which, by the way, is closed on Sunday.

This was our first time to use this location. Other than being rattled by
freight trains almost every hour, it was a great site.

--
Mike Duke, K5XU