Great report, Eric! ?Sounds like things were pretty busy in the W4MC basement. ?Busy and successful!
73, Joe AJ2Y
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On Jun 24, 2024, at 12:31, Eric Howell <erhowell@...> wrote:
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Congratulations,
And another successful Field Day is in the books. I wish that I could have joined you ¡°at the pool¡± but alas I was relegated to my basement shack. However, in that basement shack I managed to work 689 stations including N4N on two bands. Most of my contacts were on FT4. I found that because the QSOs were quicker I could turn a bit better rate. Now I will have to say that keeping track of two stations running FT4 sometimes got a bit interesting especially in the wee hours of the morning when you are going on hour 25 or so without sleep. In true Field Day fashion, I even had to replace an antenna that I found that the smoke had been let out of the balun. That set me back about 45 minutes or an hour. You may have seen it on the N4N FB page.
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I finally got the messages sent. I had some issue because everyone else was sending messages but later in the day it cleared up. I included a message to a friend that I worked with who has been inactive for quite a while. I instantly got a text message from him and now he is starting to look at buying a radio and getting back on the air. Wants to work QRP CW.
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I did manage to do some 6-meter work and Sunday morning there was an opening into STX and LA area. Looking at the summary sheet I worked mor stations on 6 than I did on 10. So overall I don¡¯t think that I did too bad with a total score of 3456. We will wait and see that the other 2E, single op stations did.
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