Ready to Go
Ok, it's late and nobody will likely see this, but . . . Got a few things done today. Since setup can officially begin at 8pm (0000Z Friday), this evening I shot a couple of lines over the trees in
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Dave Moss
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#8809
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Re: FD plans
Sounds good for me
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Gary McConville
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#8808
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Re: Head count for FD meals
All good, will grab breakfast Sunday morning before departing the house and the XYL drops me off between 730-800am Eddie, AE4TQ
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Eddie Thompson
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#8807
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FD plans
Eddie, Gary, and I will be gathering at my place Friday around 9:30am to begin setup for FD. If all goes well we should be finished by mid-afternoon and in good shape to copy the ARRL bulletins
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Dave Moss
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#8806
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Head count for FD meals
Here's who I think is in for meals FD weekend: Sat lunch: KE4UW, AE4TQ, WB4SQ, KE4QFB Sat dinner: KE4UW, AE4TQ (+XYL), KE4QFB Sun breakfast: ??? Sun lunch: KE4UW, AE4TQ, KE4QFB, WB4SQ Please let me
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Dave Moss
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#8805
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Re: FD is here!
FT-DX10
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ke4qfb@...
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#8804
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Re: FD is here!
Eddie, I¡¯ve done the two radio thing with the home station running FT8. It does keep one hopping. That may be a way to keep two stations on FT8 while I¡¯m cooking. ? GOTA FT8 would work too.
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Dave Moss
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#8803
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Re: FD is here!
Larry, Come on by, and bring your friend! We don¡¯t have a radio for GOTA, but maybe we can make that happen. What radio do you have? Maybe we can use that one? Dave UW
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Dave Moss
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#8802
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Re: FD is here!
Watch for (and work!) W1CUM in Northern Vermont. We will be < 50 miles from the Canadian Border. 1A + VHF (6m) Jeff n1kdo
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Jeff Otterson n1kdo
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#8801
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Re: FD is here!
I would love to join in the fun, I can bring my radio if needed. I also have a friend that is interested in ham radio, Will there be a GOTA station in operation?
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ke4qfb@...
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Re: FD is here!
Maybe we should have a stretch goal this year and try SO2R each! Looking forward to it, will bring my IC-9700 into the light of day with SatPC32 and my Easycomm az/el controller. Heather will bake us
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Eddie Thompson
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FD is here!
FD is finally here! It¡¯s a smaller affair this year¡ªeither 2A or 3A (we¡¯ll decide Saturday), with so far only three ops (AE4TQ and KE4UW on digital, WB4SQ on phone). I may try a bit of CW, only
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Dave Moss
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Guess who we had dinner with today¡
Tried to kidnap Eric to bring him back for N4N FD but he would have no part of it. Ha
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Gary McConville
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Re: Field Day preps
Heading to NY in the AM. Will be back to help on Friday FD setup.
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Gary McConville
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Re: Field Day preps
Thanks Eddie. That would be great.
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Dave Moss
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Re: Field Day preps
I have a spare Win10 laptop I'll bring on Saturday that we can use for TS2000 if you want to give it a try, we can load N1MM and WSJT-X, and any other software. EddieAE4TQ? Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail
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Edmund Thompson
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#8794
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Field Day preps
Eddie and I are getting together Saturday (late afternoon, early evening) to get the radios and computers configured for Field Day. Others are welcome to join us if interested. Focus will be on
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Dave Moss
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Re: FD 2023
I hear ya, but realistically we aren¡¯t going to win this. It¡¯s a more laid back effort than was typical in the past. I¡¯m all for putting up a respectable score, but there will only be three of
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KE4UW Dave
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Re: FD 2023
New rules list GOTA contacts as 5 points w/o limits. Kerchink. I could work SSB alongside and coach when reqd.
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Gary McConville
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Re: FD 2023
We likely won¡¯t have a dedicated GOTA station, but we could probably make one of the stations available part time for that.
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Dave Moss
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