07/05/2009 | K4F As a joint effort between the Florida Contest Group-Panhandle and the Alabama Contest Group, K4F operated from the Old Molino School north of Pensacola Florida. We were 2A. We named our group "The Redneck Riviera Contesting Sport Models".

At the beginning of Field Day, we were visited by Paul, KJ4G, the Section Manager for the NFL section. We made almost 3000 contacts using two FT1000MPs and logged with Win-Test logging software. Operators included KC4HW, N4OX, K4PV, K4IBS and NF4A.

Murphy was one of our operators and we lost several hours of prime 80 meter operating on Saturday night when the antenna tuner used to tune the ladder line fed dipole when haywire. We ended up having to replace an SO-239 on the tuner input to get the unit going again (damage was probably done during a previous contest while running 1 kw....we were only putting 100 watts into the tuner).
We had numerous problems with one of the Microham USB keyers and finally installed ferrite doughnuts on the power input and the USB cable to clean that up.

With all that said, we had a ball. Thanks to N4OX for hosting us. -- NF4A