07/29/2002 | WW8OH The Central Ohio Operator's Klub Extra-Novice (COOKEN) had a fun time this year operating from our new County EMA van. This is the first time we have had the chance to try out our new EMA mobile command post facility and Murphy was there in every crack with lots of spyders. Good time to flush out all those things like trying to run 2 rigs ,m three computers and an air conditioner from one 40 amp inverter on it's bank of 12 volt batteries.

We had 10 operators take part and enjoyed having a GOTA station and hope the league contines with this great new idea.

This year was our first year trying sattelite and we had lots of fun once we found out that our compass pointed to north no matter which way we turned. Once we got locked onto AO-40 it worked great and we had lots of contacts albeit on the graveyard shift this year.

We have a photo album on our club web site http://www.cooken.org that has some of field day pictures on it.

We also had good luck with the N3FPJ network logging program. It worked flawlessl and made doing the dreadful summary a breeze.

Already looking forward to next year.

73s

Eldon
W5UHQ
Club Secretary -- W5UHQ