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Re: [TowerTalk] Wire Antennas Only For Field Day

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Wire Antennas Only For Field Day
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 11:59:11 -0700
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That also describes our FD group. W6JTI, W6GJB, and I ran 1A battery QRP, our fifth such entry. JTI and I are 75, GJB is the baby, only 70. In past years, we've set up on mountaintops, great for QRP, but the heat on FD weekend caused us to find a much cooler (and lower elevation) QTH. We didn't make as big a score, but we're glad we made that decision. We only work CW (except on VHF); QRP SSB on FD is far too frustrating to endure. :)

We also try to make it easier on ourselves by doing trial setup at home in the week before FD, and also work out antenna setups that require less physical effort. This link shows the neat contesting trailer that W6GJB built. The idea for the tripod mounting of the surplus mast sections came from K7JA. The ideas for bottom loading came from N6BT.

k9yc.com/7QP.pdf

This link shows an 80M vertical that's not much work to set up, but requires five people, three of them on the guy lines.

http://k9yc.com/80M-FDVertical.pdf

73, Jim K9YC

On 7/6/2017 11:05 AM, Charles Farr wrote:
I am also getting old. The California heat, the hip replacement and the rigors of getting antennas up, handling very heavy batteries, and getting the solar panels and gear set up is becoming more and more difficult. Once we are set up, I'm fine.


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