Field Day

I know it has been about 3 weeks since field day, but I am finally getting around to writing about it. I had planned to participate in Field Day locally with the Larkfield Amateur Radio Club, W2LRC. Unfortunately they canceled the plans and I had to make alternate plans. My friend Brandon, KB3IGC, had informed me that he planned to run field day from the RPI campus. The original plan was to use a wide open athletic field. Unfortunately a pop up thunderstorm forced us to retreat to a dry building. After the thunderstorm we opted to set up near the RPI amateur radio club building in order to quickly get into a dry place in case of rain. We setup a homebrew vertical multiband and a dipole. It turns out that we had a good evening with plenty of contacts from coast to coast. It shows that amateur radio enjoyment can be had without a full kilowatt of power and yagis rotating on a 50 foot tower.

Update

It has been a long time since I have taken the time to post on this blog. In the time since I have written I was offered a new job and have since moved. I am still in the process of setting up my a station at my new QTH. I hope to be able to discuss the challenges and successes of installing antennas and setting up the new radios to get back to more operating. There should be plenty of projects that I will discuss on this blog. I already have found and setup my HT to work the local repeaters. I found out that the PL tones used on repeaters is not saved for each individual memory channel. I look forward to posting a status update soon.