Made a bunch of satellite contacts over on Sunday, confirming things work As Advertised.
I pick up a little 5 x 7 trailer from U-Haul on Thursday, load it up Friday with my son, and head down to the site for setup.
More info on Field Day, and all things Amateur Radio, at the ARRL website.
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Admiral Yamamoto infamously said "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a man with a rifle behind every blade of grass."
And so it should be, a nation of riflemen....
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Can You Say <i>Radio Blackout?</i>
Youch! Haven't seen things this squirrelly in quite a while: Radio propagation in the 3~30MHz range is pretty bad tonight. Anywhoo......
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FOURTH time I've written this post. MY Muse has apparently vacated the premises, leaving me too busy doing other things to keep both m...
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With apologies to The Control Voice.... Yup.....got The Busies the last few weeks. Lots of stuff happening this week, including my Nuclea...

Did you notice the WWII surplus ARC-5 transmitter on the field day poster. It even has the dynamotor!
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ReplyDeleteNo, I missed that completely.
Command Set transmitter *and* receiver, in fact, with a Vibroplex "Lightning Bug" or clone sitting atop the XMTR, and that's the commonest mil-surp J-36 bug. If our boy's pushin' an ex-mil straight key, too, his FD setup may be all surplus.
ReplyDelete'Sa pity Phil Gildersleeve (http://www.hamtoons.net/node/22) isn't around to ask.
Except for the orange crate........
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