{"id":4349,"date":"2019-01-26T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2019-01-27T18:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T23:41:52","slug":"winter-field-day-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"Winter Field Day Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right on schedule at 14:00 EST, W1SYE was on the air for Winter Field Day from Glen Park in Portsmouth.\u00a0 Willy W1LY and helpers made short work of the setup, and had two ladder line antennas in the trees, and two tents setup for operation by noon.\u00a0 There was some concern about HF noise from a new generator, and the noise went away when it was swapped out.\u00a0 And as you might expect there was a scramble to get the logging computers up and going.<\/p>\n

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Two tents and two simple multiband antennas<\/p><\/div>\n

Things were working well later this afternoon.\u00a0 Reverse Beacon Network spots indicated that the CW tent was putting out a fine signal<\/p>\n

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The gang is busy on phone during WFD — that’s a new tech (waiting for license) at the mic<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob WB4SON made a satellite (only one allowed) with N1FD who was 4O NH (4 transmitters Outdoors in New Hampshire). The first satellite pass happened 13 minutes after the contest began, and the contact was in the log as soon as the satellite was above the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Satellite Antenna (crossed 2m\/70cm beam)<\/p><\/div>\n

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2m\/70cm all-mode radio, laptop to correct Doppler, and 30 AH Battery inside truck (warm)<\/p><\/div>\n

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