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2002 ARRL Field Day

W0WOB -- Jun 26, 2002 02:12 ET

A few trees north of the terminal building provide guy and dipole anchors. The radar tower is not used for FD. Outfitting the Mobile Command Post a few years ago was a big Trojan ARC project.

Our tower trailer is 45 years old and features a Tristao crankup on a homebrew trailer. It was built by an appliance dealer gunning for TV sales amongst rural residents in the 1950s

This was the 3rd year to hold Trojan ARC's 2A KS effort at the Colby airport. We have a shaded awning, yet an open environment, and low electrical noise with some trees and lots of open tower space. New this year was a 70' crankup tower we used for 6m yagi and dipoles. This nearly solved mutual interference problems. The higher 6m antenna seemed like a boon, but with only 2 E clouds favoring us during FD we didn't get a chance at extensive evaluation.

The GOTA station went almost unused by our 'ham retirees', but it was appreciated by one visitor who enjoyed chasing Puerto Rico and working a couple other stations. Our most interesting ham ingenuity episode was the "brand new, 20 year-in-the-box" Alliance HD-73 rotator we got at Dayton. The dual speed rotation was only VERY SLOW. After a few rotations looking for 6m E clouds, the CCW rotation became as advertised, while the CW direction quit. Inspection of the control box innards revealed a highly corroded copper switch actuator -- cleaning it made the system perform as expected.

We had about 1150 QSOs and of course the usual great eyeball QSOs. Our ops and main interests: K0BJ - cw; WA0CAL - refreshments; K0FJ - logging and LAN; KC0HBR - graveyard; KC0IWH - cw; KC0JAO - all aspects; KB0LGX - graveyard; K0MXU - teardown; K0QP - SSB S&P; N0QE - SSB running; N0XJ - setup and repair; N0XNJ - logistics; N0XNO - setup

HIGH winds plagued setup day and all but 4 hours of Field Day. At least that kept the bugs at bay. CU next year. -- K0BJ

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