{"id":876,"date":"2020-03-17T21:17:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w4ysb.org\/?p=876"},"modified":"2020-03-17T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T01:32:16","slug":"field-day-1991-at-w4ysbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w4ysb.org\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Field Day 1991 at W4YSB’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KK4X, 2A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tyack estate is near milepost\n258 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which follows the ridges of the Appalachian\nMountains as it winds through North Carolina’s Ashe County. It had rained all\nday Friday and the weather for the Field Day weekend didn’t look good. Harry\nMills, KK4X, our crack CW operator, was planning to bring his camper – a sure\nsign of stormy weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday morning through Sunday\nturned out to be partly sunny and cool. The entire Field Day period was without\nrain and more importantly, lightning. Just before 1800Z Saturday, I contacted a\nham in Wilmington, North Carolina, who gave the weather as 92 degrees, muggy\nand miserable – it was 75 degrees at our site. In talking to other clubs after\nthe event, I found out we were lucky to be in Ashe County. Others reported\nhaving to shut down several times because of thunder and lightning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rigs were set up under a\nshelter and in Harry’s camper. Harry used a Ten-Tec Omni and a CCD antenna for\n40 meters. The Novice station used a Kenwood TS-440S HF transceiver with a\nten-meter dipole and a G5RV. The other HF station was an ICOM IC-751 HF\ntransceiver with a Butternut HF6V vertical. The satellite station set up in the\ngreenhouse used a Yaesu transceiver and home-brew 2-meter and 440-MHz antennas.\nThe antennas were aimed by hand. All transceivers were operated from a 5-kVA\ngenerator provided by Ross Sigmon, W4DOU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We operated nonstop until the\npotluck dinner at 2200Z. The rigs were shut down for one hour while we ate.\nAfter dinner, we fired up the generator again and operated until about 0530Z.\nAt 1130Z. we started up again and operated until 1700Z Sunday. It was a\nsuccessful Field Day – beautiful, cool weather; fellowship; food; and everything\nworked flawlessly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunt, B., & Stankiewicz, W. C. (1991, November). Field\nDay 1991. QST<\/em>, LXXV<\/em>(11), 101\u2013101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published soapbox submitted to ARRL by Mike Mahan, KB4WJA<\/p>\n\n\n\n