Tom:
Good food, good company, and  some excellent adult beverages is the absolute 
key to any successful field day operation.
The radios, computers and antennas all come in down the list, especially 
from that third absolute necesity hi hi.
However, what is field day if you don't have to trouble shoot 
something...the whole point is to make sure all your equipment is working 
and operational and able to get on the air and make contacts...you obviously 
got that part right so all and all, it was totally successful.
And, nice to hear you were actually in the field, using a portible station 
rather than most of these crazy contesters that sit in their home shack and 
rack up the points.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 3:21 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Murphy Lives in Mississippi

> 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