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2020 ARRL Field Day
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06/30/2020 | N8JLM
We operated from home this year as 1D. I set up a temporary antenna, and operated from the garage to be in the spirit of Field Day. The antenna was a 80M dipole fed with some homemade open wire line. I am already looking forward to FD 2021 with the ... Read More
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06/30/2020 | W4R
Man this year was way different. We had alot less operators. We had fewer contacts and we didnt have the big dinner that we usually have. We had some fun though. It was 95 degrees and the Saraha dust was a killer here in GA. All in all at least we trie... Read More
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06/29/2020 | K9RST
Working Field Day from home at first seemed real appealing – and it was a dream experience, but first, I had to make sure the wife was preoccupied with other projects so I could play downstairs on my radio. The strategy worked until I discovered that... Read More
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06/29/2020 | W9ZL
FD 2020, the year of social distancing, is in the books for W9ZL, the Fox Cities ARC in Appleton, WI. We took some precautions, but still ran 2A from our our usual spot. We had one operator for the CW station and the second station ran SSB, FT8 and ... Read More
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06/29/2020 | K2CYS
6/29/2020 | K2CYS Obviously a strange Field Day, operating from home in the middle of a pandemic. Good for those who braved outside and put the emphasis on Field. It was not practical for a lot of us to do that owing to weather, space, etc. But ope... Read More
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06/29/2020 | WD8DSB
Ran 1B single op this year due to Covid-19, and decided to run reasonably low power (10 to 15 watts) to allow for battery operation during the entire event. Lots of rain but large tarp canopy hung between the trees kept things reasonable dry. 40 mete... Read More
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06/29/2020 | AB9PR
As anticipated, this year's Field Day was certainly a very different event from our club's annual 3A plus GOTA team effort, however it remained as one of my absolute favorite annual events. I was going to participate alone from my shack as a 1D statio... Read More
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06/29/2020 | KA7RRA
I had a great time this year in Field Day this year everything went well for me I was working mobile for my 1st time as 1C and made some nice contacts off of my 9 foot whimp antenna. this September is the Washington Salmon run I plan on being a HF... Read More