Mike:

What was your club's field day  call?

I worked a few Mississippi stations on 40 yesterday evening, but the calls 
didn't sound familiar to me.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 4:15 PM
Subject: Field Day in Mississippi


> This year, our club ran 2A from a grassy field that is owned
> by our local Bass Pro shop.
>
> Since it is located in the middle of a highly populated
> retail area, I expected radio reception to be very noisy.
> But the location turned out to be one of the most quiet
> receiving sites I have encountered in a long time.
>
> Yesterday, using my TS570, I made 120 CW contacts, mostly on
> 15 and 20 meters. The antenna was a loaded vertical antenna
> that uses a base loading coil, a telescoping whip, and some
> counterpoise radials. This antenna played surprisingly well,
> but I missed the convenience of changing bands on the fly.
> To change bands, someone had to go to the antenna itself and
> configure it for the new band.
>
> When I went back out this morning, I appropriated the
> Carolina Windom from the other station that was not being
> used. With that antenna, I cleaned house on 10 meter CW,
> working every station I heard.
>
> My wife then worked some 10 meter SSB, and we both worked
> some 6 meters. We only made 8 or 10 6 meter contacts, but
> again, we caught everything we could hear.
>
> My total CW count for the weekend was 150, plus about 30
> phone contacts.
>
> The weather was wonderful yesterday, excluding a sudden
> wind gust that blew down the food tent.
>
> Today, however, it was as if somebody had set the oven to
> self cleaning mode ... no breeze, no clouds, and enough hot
> sun to melt the polar icecap,, or fry an egg on the
> sidewalk.
>
> Overall, band conditions were much better than they were
> last year.
>
> Plus, all who participated said they had fun.
>
> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>