{"id":1821,"date":"2015-06-29T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2015-07-05T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T03:05:07","slug":"fd-2015-its-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"FD 2015 — It’s a wrap!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neither rain, nor wind, nor fear of dark kept the unflappable\u00a0Field Day operators from completing about 3,200 QSOs this year. \u00a0Despite some nasty weather than began around 8 PM Saturday, so much water in the tents that that a\u00a0hand key had to be used because the keyer became too waterlogged, tables with rigs blowing over, and the ever-infallible paper logs almost turning to paper mache, Newport County Radio Club\u00a0carried on to the bitter end.<\/p>\n

Things looked pretty\u00a0rosy when the antennas were setup Friday afternoon.\"FD<\/a><\/p>\n

The GOTA Station was the held in a spacious BWT (Big White Tent — should be called a BFHT).\"FD<\/a><\/p>\n

Several members of the public saw and heard the action and stopped by to participate, including these young operators.\"RJ<\/a><\/p>\n

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But the weather wouldn’t hold — by 7 PM Saturday the skies were darkening, and it was lightly raining by 8 PM. \u00a0By 4 AM it was gusting around 55 MPH.\"FD<\/a><\/p>\n

By dawn things were still standing, but they had taken a beating. \u00a0The CW Beam was now pointing at Africa. \u00a0The GOTA Beam was a askew and pointing toward Alaska, and the GOTA tent was cattywampus.\"FD<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the damp weather it was a great time. \u00a0Only 361 days to plan for Field Day 2016!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neither rain, nor wind, nor fear of dark kept the unflappable\u00a0Field Day operators from completing about 3,200 QSOs this year. \u00a0Despite some nasty weather than began around 8 PM Saturday, so much water in the tents that that a\u00a0hand key … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-day","category-operating","category-public-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}