Mike:

You need to know that Murphy paid us a Field Day visit here in Michigan as
well.

Right before Field day, a developing family medical situation with my wife's
mother, and the need to help a family friend with another problem cauased
some delays, and I didn't get out to the RV until approximately 3 p.m.

Then, I discovered a computer glitch with the N3FJP logging software that
took about an hour to troubleshoot.  The glitch involved a windows handling
exception com port error that was ultimately fixed for the most part, but
unexpectedly re-appeared a number of times throughout the rest of the Field
Day operating period.  I think the com port error stemmed from the fact that
I had set up the N3FJP FD logging software at home with my TS590 since that
was most convenient at the time in light of the visit of our grand-kids last
week.  The logging software seemed to perform flawlessly Friday evening, but
that obviously was not the case later on.

A ham friend and his family also stayed with us at the camper, and, since he
had helped me put up my DXCC antenna, I wanted to allow everyone to make
some contacts as well.

The bottom line is that I got 223 contacts in the log.  They were mainly CW
on 20 and 40 meters, with a scattering of phone contacts as well.  I did use
N8OE, our local club call, if any list memember happened to hear it.

As you said, the bands were also not in the greatest shape, with 40 being
especially noisy due to thunderstorm QRN.

In summary, the Field Day effort was not a bust, but was a bit of a
disappointment.  However, we had good company, and lots of good food, so it
wasn't all bad either.


Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Duke, K5XU [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:44 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Murphy Lives in Mississippi

Hi, Tom.

We wound up as a  2A operation, rather than the 3A we had planned. Even at
2A, both stations were idle too many times due to lack of operators.

I was running my Kenwood TS570, and a G5RV that was only up about 30 feet in
the center.

I only made 90 CW contacts before I left for the night. Those were all on 15
and 40 meters.

The bands are nothing to write home about, as I'm sure you know.

I'm going back out at about 7:00 tomorrow morning.

--
Mike Duke, K5XU