Subj : Re: Field Day
To   : W8ZZU
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun Sep 04 2005 16:23:00

-=> W8ZZU wrote to Finnigann <=-

 W8>   Re: Re: Field Day
 W8>   By: Finnigann to W8ZZU on
 W8> Sat Sep 03 2005 06:39 pm

 >  > So how did everyone do?
 >  >
 >  > I worked another fellows rig as all I have is 2m 440. Our club has a
 >  > kenwood radio (can't recall the specs) and a beam with rotor. We had a
 >  > older fellow working 20 meters like crazy. I logged for him for
 >  > awhile.
 >  >
 >  > He was very good at getting thru for contacts. The club scored rather
 >  > well. We got some of the bonus points (display setup and dignatary
 >  > stoped by)
 >  >
 >  > Anyway I enjoyed my first Field Day and am looking forward to more in
 >  > the future.
 >
 >  W8> We did OK..  even though everyone crapped out and went to bed except
 >  W8> me.  I continued to hammer on 80 meters well into the wee hours of the
 >  W8> moring.
 >
 > Much of the day-to-day operations of a station are a mystery to me. I bought
 > the Operating Manual fro ARRL and it is clearing away the mist for me. I use
 > to belong to (in that I paid dues) a local Radio Club. But I didn't learn mu
 > there. If I asked pointed questions I got mixed results (Much like here I
 > suppose) When your a new-be it's hard to even know what questions to ask...
 > I stopped going. Great solution, huh?


 W8> What do you mean "day to day operations"?

Until Katrina, I didn't fully understand what one might do, day-to-day. Now I
see what sort of traffic was being handled. I figured that DX contesting was
the length and breadth of Amateur radio.  I knew about MARS but that seemed to
be a different phenomenom altogether.

Our local club has a weekly 'NET' on two meters and I supposed the HF band nets
were similar, but only larger. I suppose listening to some would have clued me
in.

I guess my perceptions of HAM radio were a bit short of reality. It's even
better. (-:

.... I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing. 
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