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Field Day 2008 is nearly here, and this year is again with the N4YDU/N4PY/KO4PY group. We’ve managed to convince Barry, K4CZ and Kent, K9EZ to join us this year. Our group will be using the special event call sign N4Q. I’m really looking forward to this one. I hope the new guys like the mix of people and will want to come back again. We put the beam up on the tower at NT4Q, Jerry’s QTH this weekend. Its been a project that was long overdue for completion, so I’m glad he’s got things set up and ready to go. The tower is about 57 feet of Rohn 25, topped with an 18 foot mast holding a 40m dipole and a Mosley CL-36 just above the tower. I spent the day with a group of folks over at N1LN’s QTH. Bruce now has hisfirst 105 foottower up and guyed. Per Bruce, this tower will hold antennas for 40 and 10 meters.
There is still a lot of work to be done to get N1LN finished up, but it will be one sweet station when completed. Over Memorial day weekend we were able to move Jerry, NT4Q closer to completion. On Saturday, we were able to pull the mast and get the 40 meter rotatable dipole installed on top. We ran into a problem with the guy bracket mounting blocking the installation of the rotor. At that point we secured the mast and called it a day. Well, I missed another good practice session. Tired after hanging off the tower at NT4Q. Just didn’t feel like sorting out the shack. ooof. Wow! This is huge! It looks like NC operators will be hosting the W1AW HQ operation this year. ARRL has contacted N4AF, and Howie will be hosting a CW multi at his station on 80-40-20-15. SSB stations are still being worked out, as well as the 160 and 10 CW stations. Preparations under way for this year’s Field Day. I have been granted the special event license N4Q. The team will be N4YDU’s crew, and we hope we have added at least two more operators to the regular recurring group. Maybe three. W4KAZ was not able to operate 2007 WPX due to illness. Sore throat and sinus infection. Bleh…. NT4D ARRL DX Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 26 22 80: 73 48 40: 114 83 20: 370 83 15: 330 73 10: 27 13 ------------------- Total: 940 293 Total Score = 826,260 I operated the 2007 ARRL DX at NT4D as Multi/Single with Jay and NT4Q, Jerry. Jay has a very nice station, and his KT34xa is sure a lot more fun on 20 meters than my own rather lame dipole. This was very much a learning experience for me, as operating a good station is much different than a low-power-cruddy-antenna set up. Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 0 0 80: 17 14 40: 30 20 20: 31 22 15: 48 34 10: 0 0 ------------------- Total: 126 90 Total Score = 33,210 Several 30 minute forays into low sunspot DX contesting, for only about four or ive hours total time. Boy, that sure stunk–:o I’m sure not looking orward to trying this with the MyCrowFone for SSB. Still, I managed to work Hawaii, Alaska, New Zealand and South Africa, all pretty good for the peanut whistle. KH6LC was really loud in here a couple of times. ZM1A was solid copy in here too. Continue reading 2007 ARRL DX CW |
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