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My First Field Day
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by n8pzd on June 25, 2001
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Hello from the Great Lakes region, Northern Ohio area. I really enjoyed my first field day, I had been involved in servicing radio equipment part-time for a friend's shop before I had my ham ticket so I thought I had pretty much seen it all. The year I got my ticket I was introduced to someone who told me I could use my Commodore C64 to initiate contacts on-the-air, he helped me get a kit wired up and we tested several times before field day weekend - imagine that 1200 baud on a machine that was previously limited to 300, I was hooked! Once set-up at the field day site in a soccer field I connected to a radio bbs and checked for other packeteers, there was more than 3 screens of stations who had been on since the 2PM starting time - I never thought there would be this much activity. So off I went pursueing the stations thru the digipeaters and gateways to reach them and pass along our 5A OH battery, get the exchange and open up the gateways for others to use, all the time checking for more stations to contact. This mode fascinated me almost exclusively for the whole weekend, I put the monitor under a cooler so the light wouldn't wake anyone in the tent and kept plinking away long into the night. I had copied the ARRL message and also sent out several birthday messages for visitors and a few to our area ARES and ARRL officials, what an amazing mode! I did manage to visit the phone stations and listen in on some cw blinking along at over 20 words per minute before the final contact was made at 1:59 on Sunday. I have now seen the PSK mode in action and can't wait to try it after I get the CW test out of the way, off to the tapes! Hailing from Northern Ohio, 73and 76...Clark Beckman N8PZD
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by kc7rad on December 12, 2001
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Very good article! Brought back great memories of my 1st one, way back in 1983. Quick recap of my first FD: Got to camp out with my girlfriend; drank beer at age 17; pointed a 5 element 2M Yagi tward an OSCAR using the 'armstrong' method; and almost lost my eye when I fell down in the woods after using the 'necessary room'.
Oh, during the 2nd one, we got to hide-out in the bathrooms when the tornado alarms went off!
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