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.