Hi Doug!

Wow, you've got one brave boy there, coordinating a field day having no idea
what might be involved. Still, there are advantages in that because he will
learn a plenty, and if you can keep him on board, next year will be better
for the risk.

I always prefer to operate CW, but the demand for fast pace and complicated
by net lag doesn't make remote operating very realistic, so I didn't really
try to keep a log. Just did S and P for an hour or so when I could squeeze
it in.

Experience has taught me that I don't have much of a signal with W0EQO, but
did manage to work half a dozen sections on 40 meter SSB for my hour of
effort. 

Having all the radio noise in my ears made Jaws fairly useless so you can
see that logging would have been fruitless even if I had got something set
up for it. 

Since remote operating hasn't quite gotten into the R&P framework yet, I
used the handy discussion on this list earlier in the week to decide that I
would claim as 1D Minnesota for my exchange.

With that little bit of inspiration, I'm now planning to host a special
event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of our consumer group later this
year. Have started the process of getting an approved call, because you
gotts tart somewhere, right?

73,
Dave

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Sent: Monday, 29 June 2015 12:26 p.m.
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Subject: Field Day

I'm happy to say that I was able to partisipate in Field Day this year. 
After quite a few years of not being active in Field Day, our club, The
North Hills Radio Club decided to get back into the fray. Three of us went
to near-by Folsum Lake to operate. Ourantenna setup wasn't the best, a
Ventenna rotateable diple. The radio was a Flex 3,00. We were also
restricted to  daylight operation. So, we made only 44 q's. But we had fun. 
The more important thing is that this was the first time for Field Day for
the guy who headed up the operation. He had never co-ordenated a Field Day
event before nor had he ever operated Fild Day in his life. I give him much
credit for being willing to try something he had never done before. We have
a few people who have done Field Day before but you didn't see them step up
to the plate. So, they had better not critisize him for something he may not
have done to their likeing. I'm sure that the fello learned many lessons
yesterday and that he'll do much better next year. Hopefully, more club
members will partisipate. One more thing. Field Day is about the only chance
during the year that I get to use my General Class privilages on hf. So, you
guys, do yourself a favor. Thank your luckey stars that you can operate hf. 
I'd give anything in the world to do so. 73. Doug, N6NFF