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