Gents,

It’s getting time to make some plans for FD 2022, but maybe first we ought to figure out who is really interested in playing Field Day this year.? So who’ s in this year?

Once we figure out who’s in, maybe we can arrange a get-together of those folks to figure out what we want to do.

I was wondering how this might work out this year, with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters living here as well.? But first Margaret decided to go to South Africa in June to visit her mom, and with a small contribution from me my daughter and her family are planning a weekend away, so it will be a bit easier to have run of the house.? So we can set up whatever we want.

Last year we operated 3A, 100W max power, mostly wire antennas for HF and a yagi for 6m, all run off of batteries and solar panels.? Very quiet in the back yard.? Friday setup was just me and the spud gun shooting some lines over trees to put up wire antennas for 20, 15, and 10 and move wires for 80, 40.? Saturday we put up the 6m yagi and the phased verticals for 40.? We had one station on CW, and two stations on FT-4/8.? I don’t thing we made a single phone contact.? There were a total of five folks involved.? We each got to operate about as much as we wanted to, and if the radios sat unused for a bit, so what?? I thought it was fun as we could chat a bit while working digital, and the noise on the deck was pretty low for the CW folks.? We made a bit over 1000 Qs, and a bit over 5000 points.? Very nice balance between decent setup and level of effort to set things up.?

It worked pretty well, but we were losing the battle with the batteries towards the end.? But I’m sure we had additional batteries we could have had available (but didn’t think we needed), and I also have an EU2000 Honda generator we could use if we had to.? (Using the generator wouldn’t affect the score, as we can still only claim the x2 power multiplier because we are running 100W.? To get the x5 multiplier you are limited to 5W max.)?

With the recent rules change, ARRL has made permanent the practice of home stations (Class D) working other home stations for QSO credit.? I don’t like it, but it is what it is.? Maybe we could operate as class D and skip all the setup.? Or maybe do the setup outside FD weekend (a week early?) and operate class D or class E (home station on emergency power).? Just something to consider.?

So let me know who is interested this year, and if you are interested in part time, one day only, the full weekend, or whatever.? Share any thoughts you have via groups.io.?

Dave UW

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Gents,

It’s getting time to make some plans for FD 2022, but maybe first we ought to figure out who is really interested in playing Field Day this year.? So who’ s in this year?

Once we figure out who’s in, maybe we can arrange a get-together of those folks to figure out what we want to do.

I was wondering how this might work out this year, with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters living here as well.? But first Margaret decided to go to South Africa in June to visit her mom, and with a small contribution from me my daughter and her family are planning a weekend away, so it will be a bit easier to have run of the house.? So we can set up whatever we want.

Last year we operated 3A, 100W max power, mostly wire antennas for HF and a yagi for 6m, all run off of batteries and solar panels.? Very quiet in the back yard.? Friday setup was just me and the spud gun shooting some lines over trees to put up wire antennas for 20, 15, and 10 and move wires for 80, 40.? Saturday we put up the 6m yagi and the phased verticals for 40.? We had one station on CW, and two stations on FT-4/8.? I don’t thing we made a single phone contact.? There were a total of five folks involved.? We each got to operate about as much as we wanted to, and if the radios sat unused for a bit, so what?? I thought it was fun as we could chat a bit while working digital, and the noise on the deck was pretty low for the CW folks.? We made a bit over 1000 Qs, and a bit over 5000 points.? Very nice balance between decent setup and level of effort to set things up.?

It worked pretty well, but we were losing the battle with the batteries towards the end.? But I’m sure we had additional batteries we could have had available (but didn’t think we needed), and I also have an EU2000 Honda generator we could use if we had to.? (Using the generator wouldn’t affect the score, as we can still only claim the x2 power multiplier because we are running 100W.? To get the x5 multiplier you are limited to 5W max.)?

With the recent rules change, ARRL has made permanent the practice of home stations (Class D) working other home stations for QSO credit.? I don’t like it, but it is what it is.? Maybe we could operate as class D and skip all the setup.? Or maybe do the setup outside FD weekend (a week early?) and operate class D or class E (home station on emergency power).? Just something to consider.?

So let me know who is interested this year, and if you are interested in part time, one day only, the full weekend, or whatever.? Share any thoughts you have via groups.io.?

Dave UW

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Eric Howell
W4MC
w4mc@...

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Hey Eric!? Would be glad to have you hear in person, although the zoom connection last year was better than nothing!

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UW

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Gents,

It’s getting time to make some plans for FD 2022, but maybe first we ought to figure out who is really interested in playing Field Day this year.? So who’ s in this year?

Once we figure out who’s in, maybe we can arrange a get-together of those folks to figure out what we want to do.

I was wondering how this might work out this year, with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters living here as well.? But first Margaret decided to go to South Africa in June to visit her mom, and with a small contribution from me my daughter and her family are planning a weekend away, so it will be a bit easier to have run of the house.? So we can set up whatever we want.

Last year we operated 3A, 100W max power, mostly wire antennas for HF and a yagi for 6m, all run off of batteries and solar panels.? Very quiet in the back yard.? Friday setup was just me and the spud gun shooting some lines over trees to put up wire antennas for 20, 15, and 10 and move wires for 80, 40.? Saturday we put up the 6m yagi and the phased verticals for 40.? We had one station on CW, and two stations on FT-4/8.? I don’t thing we made a single phone contact.? There were a total of five folks involved.? We each got to operate about as much as we wanted to, and if the radios sat unused for a bit, so what?? I thought it was fun as we could chat a bit while working digital, and the noise on the deck was pretty low for the CW folks.? We made a bit over 1000 Qs, and a bit over 5000 points.? Very nice balance between decent setup and level of effort to set things up.?

It worked pretty well, but we were losing the battle with the batteries towards the end.? But I’m sure we had additional batteries we could have had available (but didn’t think we needed), and I also have an EU2000 Honda generator we could use if we had to.? (Using the generator wouldn’t affect the score, as we can still only claim the x2 power multiplier because we are running 100W.? To get the x5 multiplier you are limited to 5W max.)?

With the recent rules change, ARRL has made permanent the practice of home stations (Class D) working other home stations for QSO credit.? I don’t like it, but it is what it is.? Maybe we could operate as class D and skip all the setup.? Or maybe do the setup outside FD weekend (a week early?) and operate class D or class E (home station on emergency power).? Just something to consider.?

So let me know who is interested this year, and if you are interested in part time, one day only, the full weekend, or whatever.? Share any thoughts you have via groups.io.?

Dave UW

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Eric Howell
W4MC
w4mc@...

On Apr 11, 2022, at 7:54 AM, Eric Howell <erhowell@...> wrote:

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In-person is my plan at this point.

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Thanks,

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Eric

erhowell@...

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KE4UW Dave
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 9:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [N4N-Field-Day] Field Day 2022

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Hey Eric!? Would be glad to have you hear in person, although the zoom connection last year was better than nothing!

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UW

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eric Howell
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 7:27 PM
To: [email protected]; erhowell@...
Subject: Re: [N4N-Field-Day] Field Day 2022

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Dave,

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I am sure Margaret will need some computer work by then. I'm interested.?

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Thanks

Eric

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Eric Howell?

erhowell@...

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From: Dave Moss <davemoss@...>

Date: 4/10/22 6:50 PM (GMT-05:00)

To: [email protected]

Subject: [N4N-Field-Day] Field Day 2022

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Gents,

It’s getting time to make some plans for FD 2022, but maybe first we ought to figure out who is really interested in playing Field Day this year.? So who’ s in this year?

Once we figure out who’s in, maybe we can arrange a get-together of those folks to figure out what we want to do.

I was wondering how this might work out this year, with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters living here as well.? But first Margaret decided to go to South Africa in June to visit her mom, and with a small contribution from me my daughter and her family are planning a weekend away, so it will be a bit easier to have run of the house.? So we can set up whatever we want.

Last year we operated 3A, 100W max power, mostly wire antennas for HF and a yagi for 6m, all run off of batteries and solar panels.? Very quiet in the back yard.? Friday setup was just me and the spud gun shooting some lines over trees to put up wire antennas for 20, 15, and 10 and move wires for 80, 40.? Saturday we put up the 6m yagi and the phased verticals for 40.? We had one station on CW, and two stations on FT-4/8.? I don’t thing we made a single phone contact.? There were a total of five folks involved.? We each got to operate about as much as we wanted to, and if the radios sat unused for a bit, so what?? I thought it was fun as we could chat a bit while working digital, and the noise on the deck was pretty low for the CW folks.? We made a bit over 1000 Qs, and a bit over 5000 points.? Very nice balance between decent setup and level of effort to set things up.?

It worked pretty well, but we were losing the battle with the batteries towards the end.? But I’m sure we had additional batteries we could have had available (but didn’t think we needed), and I also have an EU2000 Honda generator we could use if we had to.? (Using the generator wouldn’t affect the score, as we can still only claim the x2 power multiplier because we are running 100W.? To get the x5 multiplier you are limited to 5W max.)?

With the recent rules change, ARRL has made permanent the practice of home stations (Class D) working other home stations for QSO credit.? I don’t like it, but it is what it is.? Maybe we could operate as class D and skip all the setup.? Or maybe do the setup outside FD weekend (a week early?) and operate class D or class E (home station on emergency power).? Just something to consider.?

So let me know who is interested this year, and if you are interested in part time, one day only, the full weekend, or whatever.? Share any thoughts you have via groups.io.?

Dave UW

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--
Eric Howell
W4MC
w4mc@...

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Eric Howell
W4MC
w4mc@...

On Apr 11, 2022, at 2:32 PM, Jeff Otterson <otterson_nospam@...> wrote:

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Tim,

I've had a big question mark about you for a long time.? A bike ride instead of Field Day?? That's highly questionable.? You can ride your bike any of the other 363 days of the year.

Jeff n1kdo

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 1:44 PM Tim <tlemmon@...> wrote:

I'm a big question mark right now as well.? I'm open that Friday - Sunday in my calendar except an organized bicycle ride that Saturday.?

Tim

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 6:50 PM Dave Moss <davemoss@...> wrote:

Gents,

It’s getting time to make some plans for FD 2022, but maybe first we ought to figure out who is really interested in playing Field Day this year.? So who’ s in this year?

Once we figure out who’s in, maybe we can arrange a get-together of those folks to figure out what we want to do.

I was wondering how this might work out this year, with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters living here as well.? But first Margaret decided to go to South Africa in June to visit her mom, and with a small contribution from me my daughter and her family are planning a weekend away, so it will be a bit easier to have run of the house.? So we can set up whatever we want.

Last year we operated 3A, 100W max power, mostly wire antennas for HF and a yagi for 6m, all run off of batteries and solar panels.? Very quiet in the back yard.? Friday setup was just me and the spud gun shooting some lines over trees to put up wire antennas for 20, 15, and 10 and move wires for 80, 40.? Saturday we put up the 6m yagi and the phased verticals for 40.? We had one station on CW, and two stations on FT-4/8.? I don’t thing we made a single phone contact.? There were a total of five folks involved.? We each got to operate about as much as we wanted to, and if the radios sat unused for a bit, so what?? I thought it was fun as we could chat a bit while working digital, and the noise on the deck was pretty low for the CW folks.? We made a bit over 1000 Qs, and a bit over 5000 points.? Very nice balance between decent setup and level of effort to set things up.?

It worked pretty well, but we were losing the battle with the batteries towards the end.? But I’m sure we had additional batteries we could have had available (but didn’t think we needed), and I also have an EU2000 Honda generator we could use if we had to.? (Using the generator wouldn’t affect the score, as we can still only claim the x2 power multiplier because we are running 100W.? To get the x5 multiplier you are limited to 5W max.)?

With the recent rules change, ARRL has made permanent the practice of home stations (Class D) working other home stations for QSO credit.? I don’t like it, but it is what it is.? Maybe we could operate as class D and skip all the setup.? Or maybe do the setup outside FD weekend (a week early?) and operate class D or class E (home station on emergency power).? Just something to consider.?

So let me know who is interested this year, and if you are interested in part time, one day only, the full weekend, or whatever.? Share any thoughts you have via .?

Dave UW

On Apr 10, 2022, at 21:20, KE4UW Dave <mossdj@...> wrote:

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Great!

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Eddie Thompson
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 7:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [N4N-Field-Day] Field Day 2022

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I'll be there!

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On Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 18:50 Dave Moss <davemoss@...> wrote:

Gents,

It’s getting time to make some plans for FD 2022, but maybe first we ought to figure out who is really interested in playing Field Day this year.? So who’ s in this year?

Once we figure out who’s in, maybe we can arrange a get-together of those folks to figure out what we want to do.

I was wondering how this might work out this year, with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters living here as well.? But first Margaret decided to go to South Africa in June to visit her mom, and with a small contribution from me my daughter and her family are planning a weekend away, so it will be a bit easier to have run of the house.? So we can set up whatever we want.

Last year we operated 3A, 100W max power, mostly wire antennas for HF and a yagi for 6m, all run off of batteries and solar panels.? Very quiet in the back yard.? Friday setup was just me and the spud gun shooting some lines over trees to put up wire antennas for 20, 15, and 10 and move wires for 80, 40.? Saturday we put up the 6m yagi and the phased verticals for 40.? We had one station on CW, and two stations on FT-4/8.? I don’t thing we made a single phone contact.? There were a total of five folks involved.? We each got to operate about as much as we wanted to, and if the radios sat unused for a bit, so what?? I thought it was fun as we could chat a bit while working digital, and the noise on the deck was pretty low for the CW folks.? We made a bit over 1000 Qs, and a bit over 5000 points.? Very nice balance between decent setup and level of effort to set things up.?

It worked pretty well, but we were losing the battle with the batteries towards the end.? But I’m sure we had additional batteries we could have had available (but didn’t think we needed), and I also have an EU2000 Honda generator we could use if we had to.? (Using the generator wouldn’t affect the score, as we can still only claim the x2 power multiplier because we are running 100W.? To get the x5 multiplier you are limited to 5W max.)?

With the recent rules change, ARRL has made permanent the practice of home stations (Class D) working other home stations for QSO credit.? I don’t like it, but it is what it is.? Maybe we could operate as class D and skip all the setup.? Or maybe do the setup outside FD weekend (a week early?) and operate class D or class E (home station on emergency power).? Just something to consider.?

So let me know who is interested this year, and if you are interested in part time, one day only, the full weekend, or whatever.? Share any thoughts you have via .?

Dave UW

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On Apr 11, 2022, at 6:24 PM, Tim <tlemmon@...> wrote:

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He He.? Well... I can't control the dates of these rides.?

By the way, it was fun working you while roving this weekend.? I heard Mike Roden comment out loud when he was working you as well - on CW!!! ?? That's cool.

Tim

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 2:32 PM Jeff Otterson <otterson_nospam@...> wrote:

Tim,

I've had a big question mark about you for a long time.? A bike ride instead of Field Day?? That's highly questionable.? You can ride your bike any of the other 363 days of the year.

Jeff n1kdo

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 1:44 PM Tim <tlemmon@...> wrote:

I'm a big question mark right now as well.? I'm open that Friday - Sunday in my calendar except an organized bicycle ride that Saturday.?

Tim

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 6:50 PM Dave Moss <davemoss@...> wrote:

Gents,

It’s getting time to make some plans for FD 2022, but maybe first we ought to figure out who is really interested in playing Field Day this year.? So who’ s in this year?

Once we figure out who’s in, maybe we can arrange a get-together of those folks to figure out what we want to do.

I was wondering how this might work out this year, with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters living here as well.? But first Margaret decided to go to South Africa in June to visit her mom, and with a small contribution from me my daughter and her family are planning a weekend away, so it will be a bit easier to have run of the house.? So we can set up whatever we want.

Last year we operated 3A, 100W max power, mostly wire antennas for HF and a yagi for 6m, all run off of batteries and solar panels.? Very quiet in the back yard.? Friday setup was just me and the spud gun shooting some lines over trees to put up wire antennas for 20, 15, and 10 and move wires for 80, 40.? Saturday we put up the 6m yagi and the phased verticals for 40.? We had one station on CW, and two stations on FT-4/8.? I don’t thing we made a single phone contact.? There were a total of five folks involved.? We each got to operate about as much as we wanted to, and if the radios sat unused for a bit, so what?? I thought it was fun as we could chat a bit while working digital, and the noise on the deck was pretty low for the CW folks.? We made a bit over 1000 Qs, and a bit over 5000 points.? Very nice balance between decent setup and level of effort to set things up.?

It worked pretty well, but we were losing the battle with the batteries towards the end.? But I’m sure we had additional batteries we could have had available (but didn’t think we needed), and I also have an EU2000 Honda generator we could use if we had to.? (Using the generator wouldn’t affect the score, as we can still only claim the x2 power multiplier because we are running 100W.? To get the x5 multiplier you are limited to 5W max.)?

With the recent rules change, ARRL has made permanent the practice of home stations (Class D) working other home stations for QSO credit.? I don’t like it, but it is what it is.? Maybe we could operate as class D and skip all the setup.? Or maybe do the setup outside FD weekend (a week early?) and operate class D or class E (home station on emergency power).? Just something to consider.?

So let me know who is interested this year, and if you are interested in part time, one day only, the full weekend, or whatever.? Share any thoughts you have via .?

Dave UW

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Donna is hiking the Camino starting end of this month and I intend to meet up with her in CT land over FD weekend. ?I’ll think of you guys!