[Vintage-Radio] Boatanchors at Field Day?

[Ron Bracklow]

Jeez, did you guys ever get a Hernia?

That's a steep hill!

Take care,

Ron

(used to live/work in Riverside)

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> From: Robert D. Keys/NA4G <rdkeys at CSEMAIL.CROPSCI.NCSU.EDU>
> To: BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Radio] Boatanchors at Field Day?
> Date: Monday, October 27, 1997 6:48 AM
>
> > Moreno Valley ARA is in So. Cal. where the old Riverside Raceway used
to
> > be.  Grid Square DM13.  Town used to be called Sunnymead on them old
maps.
> >
> > TTFN  73  Frank KE6VHM
> >      Grid Square DM13
> >           CW Forever
>
> Ahhh, memories.....
>
> My very first FD as a geek novice was on the hill behind you where that
> wonderful old hermit lady used to live, up above UCR.   That was some
> 25 years ago.
>
> Lugged a BC-1306, dynamotor, and 2 diesel truck batteries up atop that
ridge,
> and ran a 15 foot whip vertical with a 300 foot long wire with a helium-
> filled kite-balloon at the end.   The rig was set up on a shaky card
table
> on the only flat 6 square feet we could find almost at the top of that
hill,
> under the bright stars.  I must have made maybe 35 qsos, if I was very
lucky.
> The diesel truck batteries lasted all the night though, and kept the
dynamotor
> generator whirring.  When the next morning came, I went the 25 feet up to
the
> crest of the ridge and looked over the edge at the sunrise, expecting to
> see a fine California rural desert vista, and the county ARC was there
with
> tents, towers, beams, 10 kilowatty diesel generators, portable GI
kitchens,
> and everything including the kitchen sink.  It sorta made the geek novice
> feel kinda dumbstruck.  No wonder that BC-1306 was overrun with QRM, that
> night before, on the 80M novice band.  The county boys did invite the
geek
> novice and his companion battery-lugger-logger down fer a round o' bacon
> an' eggs that tasted GREAT!
>
> That was a Boatanchorite Field Day, I will never forget --- the stuff
> legends are made of.....
>
> 73/ZUT DE NA4G/Bob UP
>
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