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2007 ARRL Field Day

  • 6M Antenna Going Up

    07/07/2007 | W4OLB

    The Smoky Mountain Amateur Radio Club experienced a learning curb at the 2007 Field Day. Our senior HAMS had always helped to erect the portable towers. However the younger HAMS collected and assembled the towers. This Field Day our experienced youn... Read More

  • New ham KL4RMY and daughter at their first FD.

    07/06/2007 | AL7LE

    AL7LE 2A AK [Moosehorn Amateur Radio Club, 146.28/88] - Skyview High School, near Soldotna, AK, was the site for the Moosehorn ARC's 2007 Field Day. The day was quite a success,
    despite the drizzle and smoke that was drifting in from the Caribou Hi... Read More

  • CRC Field Day Site at Mt. Bigelow before set up

    07/06/2007 | W7SA

    I have dragged my family off to a number of Field Day sites in a quite a few different states. Sometime we stayed and camped with the group, other times we just went for a visit every day, played on the radios and then went home again. Some of the gr... Read More

  • Here's where it all went down.  Note the shiny new deep cycle battery under the table.

    07/06/2007 | WA4UF

    My usual custom was to spend one day on my inlaws' back porch in Largo, FL and one on Indian Rocks Beach, collecting stares from passers-by and grilling myself to a Maine-lobster red. This year I thought to escape the heat, humidity and sunburn and ru... Read More

  • Fred -- K4LJF, RARC's president, coordinated this year's Field Day activities

    07/06/2007 | W4ZA

    Field Day 2007 @ Richmond Amateur Radio Club, Richmond, VA W4ZA

    If the ARRL changed the rules for FD scoring and created a category for FUN, we would be in the top 10%! A record number of members and visitors came out to join in the action. Maybe ou... Read More

  • Here I am trying to work up some QSOs on QRP with my ICOM 756. I found out that the radio and power supply do not like the 98 deg heat:).

    07/05/2007 | N5KEV

    The 2007 Field Day did not turn out with the QSO numbers of last year, but the lessons learned between the insect attacks, poor propagation, and the heat of the Cibola National Forest were unforgetable. My best contact was using a mag mount 20M stick o... Read More

  • Bill Reese W8WER 444.700Repeater Trustee,Rob Ruth KD8AZQ IARC Pres. Dave Weigold N8DPW IARC Vice Pres. Jay Bookwalter KC8GNL ARES DEC6 Wondering is the Hog Done Our Bellies are Growling

    07/05/2007 | W8WE

    Another Field Day is in the logs. Intercity Amateur Radio Club in Mansfield Richland County Ohio had our yearly field day at a new Site Therm-o-Disc Recreation Park. The Park was a great site BIG THANKS to Rob Ruth KD8AZQ's Father for the Idea. Lots of... Read More

  • 07/05/2007 | W2SO

    Not Our Average Field Day. I've been a member of W2SO for 7 years now. The usual routine for FD is we come out set up our own gear and we each keep our own paper log that never seems to get turned in. Like the rest of you we have a good time with ple... Read More

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