Hi David,

That is an interesting scenario on your field day experiences.  I don't know
why people have to get egos involved to the point where it will tear clubs
and organizations apart but I've seen it happen over and over again.  I'm
glad you could show by deed your capabilities.  I know my club will
certainly know what a blind person is capable of now.  We ended up with 215
cw contacts in the field day operation and I had well over half of them.  I
don't think operation will be a problem any more.  <GRIN>

I used TR log as well in my operations this year.  A friend of mine sold me
her Toshiba 486 running dos onto which I loaded TR and ASAP.  It is running
the built in Keynote speech from Human Ware and so it is integrated with no
other outboard devices.  We used this machine at the cw station and the
others who did operate didn't even realize it had speech until I told them.
VERY FUNNY>

It was kind of interesting but we ended up having an experience which kind
of represents the true meaning of field day.  Originally, my friend's TS-850
was to be the cw station with no speech but I figured this wouldn't be a
problem.  However, when we got all the rigs set up, we realized we were
short a tuner.  A friend of mine was ready to drive about 75 miles round
trip to go get his from home.  I pointed out that I had my portable station
we could use and it was right in town.  I called Kathy, my xyl, and she
brought it over.  This station is the IC-706 Mark II, an LDG AT-11MP auto
tuner and a Samlex power supply all packed into a rolling backpack.  She
brought it to me with about 20 minutes to spare before the contest started.
I had it up and running in about five minutes and was the first station in
our group to hit the air.  This station did a great job during the contest
and I was glad to give it a test of fire so to speak.  I do want to get the
cw filter for it though.

Anyway, enough from me too.  Take care David, all the best and very 73.
Kevin, K7RX

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-----Original Message-----
From: David W Wood [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 11:44 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Field Day


Hello Kevin and all

I was really pleased to learn that you have realised a good result.
So often I have come across similar scenario, but have found that
conflict isn't the answer, but be patient and the situation will be
resolved!

I too have had a result.
I mentioned in our interchanges last year on this list that despite
having run my local club's NFD entry for nearly ten years, back biting
was going on.
This year, I hadn't heard of any possible activity for the region 1
field day (which is the first weekend in June), and having had ongoing
back biting from two members in particular, I decided to put in a single
band single operator entry for 40M.

The club, meanwhile, half planned a full blown station with multi
operators.

The net result was that they scored 1500 points, had technical problems
and just over 500 contacts.

I had 410 valid contacts and 1281 points.  Of the 24 hours only
operating 18.5 due to bad conditions in the night when I elected to have
a couple of hours of sleep, and packing up early as things were so slow.

One of the criticisms I received was that I had set myself up as a prima
donna in the club, but I think I have scored the victory by actions
speaking louder than signals!!!!!

What about the two antagonists.
One ran the club event, and has now expressed his frustrations about
dealing with the various personalities in the club, and equipment not
working fully in the field, and the lack of challenge due to others not
being competitive.

The other.  Well, I am sorry that he is seriously ill following major
surgery, but ...

the TR logging program worked superbly for me.  I managed to get it
controlling the FT1000MP filters and swapping VFOs.  The only controls I
touched on the rig were the second VFO knob for listening round the band
while sending CQ, and the occasional use of the EDSP.

Regarding transport.  This is a real big one Luke.
Liz was my support for my event in June, but for the 6M contest this
coming weekend I too am reliant on a good friend in the club.  He isn't
a CW operator.  The 2M entry is still not sorted and I am told it won't
be till Thursday.  Oh well, let us see what happens!!!!!!

73 de G3YXX