Feild Day What Worked, and What Did Not

[Will]

So, how was your Field Day 2013?

Our cart with the 36 foot mast and the inverted V on 40 meters worked really well. 80 Meters here last night was bad, so we stuck with 40. We have a AEG SE-6861 radio, German back pack, 1.6 to 29.9 mHz radio that had the best receiver but at 20 watts SSB it was a challenge to get back to the high power stations.

Our VHF/UHF worked good but not a lot of stations on.

[stay-con]

So, how was your Field Day 2013?

It snuck up on me, so I wasn't "out there" however, what I did was use it as an opportunity to see how the two antenna systems I put together worked on receiving.

Much like NSA, I set the Superbrowser in HRD's DM780 to "Vacuum cleaner mode" and monitored activity on 20 meters during the contest from both antennas.

One clearly out performed the other, which wasn't a surprise. What was a surprise was how well the other one worked.

Jeff-1.0
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