"Steve Robeson K4CAP" wrote in message
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Subject: Field Day Plans?
From: "Ryan, KC8PMX"
Date: 6/24/2004 11:20 AM Central Standard Time
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Will be running KC8PMX on 50Mhz-450Mhz bands.
I was thinking a shorter call would help, but I ran those phonetics
thru
my mind a couple times, and "PAPA MIKE X-RAY" seems to me to be rather
prominent.
It's not too bad, although I wished I would have gotten a different call
when originally assigned. I might purposefully go for the vanity call of
K8KEA, just to be a pain in the ass because our club call is W8KEA. hi hi
Decided to run on my own as a
matter of passive resistance to the local club's field day planner.
Field
day is supposed to be an emergency preparedness scenario, and there is
nothing close to that from what I see of the plans locally here.
How's that, Ryan...??? Too much of the picnic-in-the-park thing?
No, just a kind of passive resistance thing. I seriously do not agree with
the person who is our field day planner and club vicepresident. I am not
the only one boycotting the club field day either.... It has been chosen
solely by him to be placed at one of the high schools out in the county (as
opposed to the city) where there is little traffic on the weekends (passing
by the school that is).
Field Day should be at least 50% PROMOTIONAL as well as 50% emergency
simulation. Since it is not an actual emergency simulation since we all
clearly know when it is going to be, AND of course get to chose where we set
up, just how does that qualify as emergency planning/communications. Yes
there is the PREPLANNING but on our fire department we dont get to know when
our next medical call or car accident or house fire is, we just respond and
deal with it as best as we can.
In a real emergency, we may be required to set up in an area less that to be
desired, such as a parking lot. Or an open field without those natural
antenna supports..... Also, we would not normally know when that emergency
would occur.......
Maybe, at least if it was changed to where we DO know the weekend it is
gonna be, BUT each countie's EC/RO or emergency services director decides
the location??? I still believe that the
PR value of Field Day far
outwieghs any other aspect of field day.
Not sure which classification I will be running yet, but will be using 3
transmitters, on battery power, occasionally charged by a vehicle's
electrical system, but the batteries won't be located in the vehicle. And
I
will be operating from our fire department's parking lot of which I am a
member of.
I had hoped to not be working this weekend, however I'm stuck.
I can relate.... have had to work weekends in the past too on that same
weekend.
Quite a few years ago I had built a small wind generator and had it on
the
roof of the barracks I was in. It charged two marine (no pun intended)
deep
cycle trolling motor batteries and those in turn ran my ICOM IC-730.
I ran it at 35-50 watts CW and I ran out beofre the batteries
did!
I've been wanting to build another, and perhaps I will before next
Field
Day.
73
Steve, K4YZ
I have been contemplating some type of solar charging system, but will be
looking into various costs of doing so. Since my operation will be
operating at a park picnic table, with my car near by, solar panels small
enough to transport but large enough to provide adequate surface
charging/and usage for daytime, so that when the evening comes, I can start
will full batteries would be nice. Well, I have a whole year now to work on
that!
Ryan KC8PMX