Field Day Report

[NJ8M]

The Kaw Valley ARC in Topeka, Kansas has been doing field day for many
years. It has run hot and cold. With the sun spot cycle heading in to the
dumpster, 40 and 80 and possibly 160 will be the money bands for operation.
This year my son, NS0R and I, NJ8M, worked, planned, built antennas and our
club bought a set of band pass filters for 20 15 and 10. These were the new
DX Engineering ones. They used a Triplexer and associated filters for the
tribander. 2 dipoles one for 80 and one for 40 were set up for the club
phone stations. They ran 2 stations there. Their radios are Icom 7000s.
Most of our phone ops are not used to non arm chair copy and had GREAT
difficulty listening through the QRM.

This year we had a goal of 3000 qso's. bummer that we did not quite make
it, 2701. Well there is always next year.

The CW station that we operated was with one K3 and a K3S. Simple 6btv, 20
meter half square and 3 element 40 meter vertical array. With those
antennas we were able to work 1600 cw Qs and about 200 ssb Qs. The K3/S
performed well. No hitch or glitch. We had fun, now back to the drawing
board for next years antennas.  We are thinking about moxon for 20 meters
and keeping the 40 meter array and then putting up a 53 ft vertical with a
9:1 unun to a remote latching relay tuner for 80 and etc instead of the
6btv.

We have not wanted to get into the tower stuff but the phone guys, AKA, the
rest of the club, put up the tower for ssb and made less then 300 Qs on 20,
it is just a waste.

We have found out that simpler antennas are best.

I Was wondering if any one has much experience with a moxon beam antenna?

Very 73,

Morgan Bailey NJ8M
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[a45wg-2]

Morgan,
        Very interesting report regarding your FD activities.

        I have - although I do not use any more a Moxton Rectangle called a “Cobweb” after Steve Cobb who designed and built it.

        My experiences over the past 10 years with it has been

        Positive points

        a) It Works
        b) Tunes well
        c) Simple - to Install and Repair
        d) Low Weight yielding great survivability
        e) Relatively Omni directional

        Give it a go - I am 100% sure it will work for you.

        regards

                Tim - A45WG

> On 28 Jun 2016, at 19:25, Morgan Bailey <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> The Kaw Valley ARC in Topeka, Kansas has been doing field day for many
> years. It has run hot and cold. With the sun spot cycle heading in to the
> dumpster, 40 and 80 and possibly 160 will be the money bands for operation.
> This year my son, NS0R and I, NJ8M, worked, planned, built antennas and our
> club bought a set of band pass filters for 20 15 and 10. These were the new
> DX Engineering ones. They used a Triplexer and associated filters for the
> tribander. 2 dipoles one for 80 and one for 40 were set up for the club
> phone stations. They ran 2 stations there. Their radios are Icom 7000s.
> Most of our phone ops are not used to non arm chair copy and had GREAT
> difficulty listening through the QRM.
>
> This year we had a goal of 3000 qso's. bummer that we did not quite make
> it, 2701. Well there is always next year.
>
> The CW station that we operated was with one K3 and a K3S. Simple 6btv, 20
> meter half square and 3 element 40 meter vertical array. With those
> antennas we were able to work 1600 cw Qs and about 200 ssb Qs. The K3/S
> performed well. No hitch or glitch. We had fun, now back to the drawing
> board for next years antennas.  We are thinking about moxon for 20 meters
> and keeping the 40 meter array and then putting up a 53 ft vertical with a
> 9:1 unun to a remote latching relay tuner for 80 and etc instead of the
> 6btv.
>
> We have not wanted to get into the tower stuff but the phone guys, AKA, the
> rest of the club, put up the tower for ssb and made less then 300 Qs on 20,
> it is just a waste.
>
> We have found out that simpler antennas are best.
>
> I Was wondering if any one has much experience with a moxon beam antenna?
>
> Very 73,
>
> Morgan Bailey NJ8M
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[Bill Frantz]

The West Valley Amateur Radio Association (using K6EI) had a
"normal" field day. We operated 12A QRP battery. We had CW,
Phone, digital stations on bands from 80M to 23cm. We had 4
towers with Yagis and wire antennas for the lower frequency bands.

I don't have information about our CW, SSB, or GOTA contacts,
but our HF digital numbers were down from last year while our
VHF and above numbers were up.

We probably had 20-30 people operating. We do have an open door
policy for operators since our goal is to have as much fun as
possible rather than to get the highest score possible and the
more the merrier.

73 Bill AE6JV

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[Bill Frantz]

Out of curiosity, what digital modes did people use to make
contacts at Field Day. Our operation got good results from PSK31
and RTTY, but did not try other modes.

73 Bill AE6JV

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[Nr4c]

At K4RC, I made 8 on 80 m PSK31 and about 21 on RTTY on 20 and 40 M.  I only worked about an hour or so at times when the Phone station was between operators.

…bc  mr4c

> On Jul 1, 2016, at 6:22 PM, Bill Frantz <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, what digital modes did people use to make contacts at Field Day. Our operation got good results from PSK31 and RTTY, but did not try other modes.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV
>
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