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CALENDAR OF EVENTS..
July 9th – Hamfest at Oak Creek
South Milwaukee Swapfest 2022! 7:00 am to 3:30
pm --Sellers can enter at 6:00 am…$5.00 per
person at the gate--American Legion Post 434
--9327 S Sheppard Ave, Oak Creek Wi -
Talk-in Frequency 146.910 127.3PL -offset
July 13th – Siren Test Net
July 14th –
Mike & Key Club Meeting – 7PM
St. Norbert College, Science Bldg, 4th floor
Field Day
A great start with a large
group for breakfast at the Oak Street
Café. KA9BXG and N9BC arrived at the
site earlier and started setting up.. they
set up a satellite tracking antenna
system and two HF antennas plus the
radio systems.
When the rest got out to the park, a
OCF 2-80 antenna was set up and an all
band vertical by K9IQ was attached to
the baseball area fence..
The entire
shelter was rented.. we had thought
that there was a kitchen behind the
small window doors… it turned out to be
empty, save but a refrigerator and a
junior fire vehicle. One radio station
was placed in there which turned out
good when the misty rain and cool
winds came.
The generator power lines were run
and the laptop logging software was
energized.
At 1PM the radios were activated and
the logging began. The lack of high
powered HF signals was quite evident
this year with the new ruling. 20 and 40
meters were humming. Most modes,
digital, cw, and phone were being used.
Around 5:30 some of the brats and
burgers were cooked and the dishes to
pass were plentiful… so the camaraderie
commenced.. and the stories and other
chit chat continued on for a few more
hours….
The night was uneventful.. until after
waking from a nap at 4am, I turned on
radio on 10 meters and made a contact.
Turned on the laptop and filled in the
information in the log. Pressed the enter
button… that log was on the screen but
the other 271 contacts disappeared!!
.PANIC.
I went over to Master laptop
and it was just showing the regular
desktop on the screen. Picked on the
N3FJP icon and it came up with
everything there- phew --- but 10 seconds later it looked like the first one - with
just one contact!!....
The wifi was on for tying the logging together .. but the
networking was not working on the
software… I decided to just wait until
the Wizards of the Keyboards came in.
It took a little while but the logs were
found and put back on the main
computer but the linking through the
network still did not function. So we
continued to log independently and the
logs would have to be joined after FD.
A beautiful Sunday morning and the
sounds of “.. K9EAM 4 alpha whiskey
india” continued..
Sometime after Noon, the generator
was about ready to need refilling. The
contacts began to fade, so everything
began to be disassembled and put
away.
A big thanks to all that came out to
set up, operate, cook, eat, chat, log,
experiment and take down the area.
That goes for the YLs, XYLs, SWLs and those
that came out because they read
something in the paper about Field Day
and were reignited to be a Ham..
Thanks AB9GK. That may have been our last time at
Pine Tree Park.. from a couple of good
sources, that there may be changes
made there which might cause the
shelter to be removed.
So rather than waiting for next year
to think about it, start looking to give
suggestions for a new Field Day Site.
The difficult part… is to be able to
stay overnight. Hobart has been very
good to us in that regard.
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