W7ACS Field Day (3A WWA)

We had Field Day and fortunately we survived.  There were moments when our greatest concern was over having left our life jackets at home.  We did not expect the volume of rain that came on Friday and lasted through Saturday afternoon.  Some years Field Day is an event where we worry about sun block and mosquitoes. This year it was whether or not the tent was a leaker.

The group at South Seattle Community College did quite well. The digital guys did about 60 contacts, the VHF contingent did 63, the SSB tent had 370 contacts, and the CW guys put us on the map with 1207 contacts.  Well done Rob AE7EG & G3WKH, Mike KB7QOP, Steve K6US, and Jim K7WA.

The W7ACS Team consisted of Seattle ACS, Medical Services Team, Seattle Red Cross, Puget Sound Repeater Group, West Seattle ARC, and a cast of thousands.  If achieving success in spite of adversity is a way of bonding people together, now we are glued together.  When you think about it, the weather we had could well be representative of the kind of weather we may face in the time of a real emergency or disaster.  For an EMCOMM exercise, it probably was a really good test exercise in putting up antennas, setting up our tents and assembling our stations into a working system that could provide communications in the time of that need. There’s no guarantee that disasters will happen on sunny days!

Thanks to Curt WR5J, our Field Day coordinator and organizer, he kept all us cats running in the same direction.