Many thanks to Bill for making the arrangement at Cosmo Park for Winter Field Day 2023. The fair weather emboldened me to put together and test my QRP portable setup for the Mobile category (which per

I am entirely mobile, so can quietly coast away until I can put on the brakes and start my cw pileup😇

Hi Bill, I will be there at Cosmo Park around 1 p.m. My setup is cw only on 20M and 40M, at QRP power of 5 watts. Antenna setup choice has become much simpler and easier for me as the cold weather imp

Thanks Bill for info. Currently I am checking out my 40 and 20 hamsticks as possible WFD antennas. I can put them on my car roof or on a mast system I have, depending on weather and space. I will test

Hi Bill, Thank you for again setting up for WFD this year. I would like to join you for a bit of operating cw qrp, if this dang cold XYL and I have been fighting for weeks abates enough. Some question

Well done, Herb and Myron. Keeping faith with our obligation to bring new folks into this important and challenging hobby... you have done it again! Jim, N0SSM

I attached the FT847's power cord to my FT857D (both Yaesu rigs), when the FT847 was acting up in the cw station and we had to switch xcvrs.. John, NO0I, now has the 847's power chord and will contact

Bill and FD team: This will be a Field Day to remember: 105 degree heat index, decent propagation, good snacks and brauts (thanks, Herb). John, NO0I, drove to Rockbridge Park this afternoon to give me

Field Day fanatics and chores I will bring coleslaw to the supper. I will copy the CW W1AW bulletin at 7 p.m. Saturday. I will co-operate the CW station with other brass pounders, NO0I and AA0B, with

Thanks for passing this on. Now that I have more time for antenna experiments, I can use the EZNEC version that came with the ARRL Antenna handbook years ago. The QRP rig test this afternoon went very

The zerohedge memo incorrectly describes the "boogaloo boys" as left-wing extremists. They are, in fact, a quasi-militia of right-wing extremists.

That's good news, William. Willam was an enthusiastic and successful member of the Tech class taught by Myron and I in autumn of 2017 William, I'll leave it to others for the answers you seek, but wou

I vote to sell the trailer, given the problems and burdens with storage, insurance, and repair, as well as locating and transporting it. We use it once or twice a year, for Field Day and sometimes as

Ernest, your photo of the 2 youngsters at your FD station wins the Cuteness Prize! Jim, N0SSM

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Chris, thanks for putting out that Q&A defining "portable" stations." You are correct, and I was not, regarding operating with portable equipment from a home location, such as a backyard, deck, or dri

Chris, I don't read the rules as you do regarding portable stations, regarding a portable's location being a specific minimum distance from home and facilities. The specific rule defining a portable s

Bill, thanks for giving us the info we need for FD. One correction, I think.. The ARRL website described CMRA without the period after "Assn". I think you put in a period to end the sentence, not to s

A good discussion is underway, thanks to all for thinking hypothetically and conditionally. We have time to sort options out. Like John, NO0I, I am strongly inclined to do a stay at home FD. I have be

Hi Tim, That's a long, optimistic article you offer to the club, but I could not see the source of the article. Did I miss it? I did not miss all the &*#@! insertions in what you sent. Were these for