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2005 ARRL Field Day

  • Paul Danzer N1II at the Elecraft K1. Note the AC as it was 95 degrees.

    07/04/2005 | W1EE

    This year was an improvement over last year, but we left ourselves with plenty of room to grow so we won't top out anytime soon. We ran solar-battery power so most of our points came from a couple great cw ops Paul N1II and John AE5X. We avoided last y... Read More

  • Deputy Sheriff Barry Faile with KE4COH and K4WJR

    07/04/2005 | KR4M

    The Lancaster (SC) County Amateur Radio Club once again held its FD exercise at the local Farmer's Market using generator power. About 20+ plus ops showed up and held forth for 22.5 hrs. Led by K4WJR and KE4COH, the CW station this year posted 500 QSOs... Read More

  • F.D. 1976

    07/04/2005 | WX8J

    What a difference a little time makes! My first involvement with F.D. was in 1976 at the Novice station of W3LIF. Using my call sign (WB3BAK) we logged just over 100 contacts using a Heathkit HW 101,Vibroplex key and an old Honda generator.. FD 2005 w... Read More

  • The W4WJF FD Crew at the end of FD.

    07/04/2005 | W4WJF

    What do you do when the club you operated Field Day with in 2004, announces that for Field Day 2005 its not all about making contacts? This is after setting a club record in 2004 for the most contacts ever made?

    Well, after scratching our heads, sever... Read More

  • VE4PAR Field Day site, 120 km. north west of Winnipeg...VE4SBS looks on.

    07/03/2005 | VE4PAR

    The Pathfinders Amateur Radio Club of Winnipeg operating as VE4PAR 1-A Manitoba, Field Day 2005 was another great success we have a good weather that weekend, we got a total QSOs of 459 on SSB mode, thanks to our members to their great action on 20 met... Read More

  • 07/03/2005 | K7GGG

    This year the 1B team of Gary, K7GGG and Jack, W7JLC doubled our previous best QSO count. Thanks to great action on 40 meters Saturday evening we went over 1000 (actually 1096) QSOs. There was a pile-up that kept responded to our CQ for six hours str... Read More

  • Our communicatins trailer for 20M and 40M stations

    07/03/2005 | N4WV

    The Columbus (GA) Amateur Radio Club held it's annual Field Day 2005 operation at Northside Park in north Columbus. Operating as N4WV (3A), with the club call of W4CVY on the GOTA station, we had good participation by over 30 people and a good time was... Read More

  • God Bless America.

    07/03/2005 | K4HJ

    The Stubblefield Repeater Club Field Day was a success. We are located in Shelbyville, KY and we setup at the Shelby County Community Center. The food, fellowship and fun are the main reasons we have Field Day. Our YLs are always a big part of the FD e... Read More

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