Too much info...good luck Scott.

It's field day weekend for those hard core hammies. They get to hang
out with all the other guys in the tents playing radio for 24 hours!

"...Had this been an actual emergency, would you have
been able to set up all that equipment in a hurricane
or a flood or major snowstorm?"

Preparedness my ass. They've been planning this for the past month.
Sending emails back and forth on reflectors, testing the generator,
gathering radios and antennas, making food plans.

I want to see how they do in lets say, an earthquake!