Field Day EPILOGUE

[Rinkie & Ron Pollack]

Can't top that one, but did have a bit of a "Green" FD. Operated a club
station during the day, but during the late evening at home, I hooked my
trusty HW8 to a dipole to see how I would do.  In a half hour, on 20, 40,
and 80, I worked about 20 stations in 16 states, including Alaska and Hawaii
from Southern California. Not bad for 5 watts!  More fun than the 500 cw
contacts I made with modern equipment!  (Last year I did the same with an
HT32/SX101!)

Ron K2RP

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Subject: [HEATH-TEMPE] Field Day EPILOGUE


Hi All,

Well, FD's over for another year, & VERY casual operating on 80- and
40-meters CW with the 1923 p-p 203A Colpitts self-excited transmitter /
Heathkit SB-301 receiver yielded a page --- & then some --- of QSOs...

By far, the most were made on 80-meters. I think the chirpy signal ---
coupled to the fact that both the antenna and tank coil were effectively
"...wind modulated" by the outdoor environment --- contributed to this.
Forty was VERY busy here, and I'm sure 99% of the gang therein were running
with extremely tight CW IF filtering, which would have made my chirpy signal
essentially undetectable! On 80 --- where things were not nearly as
hectic --- it's my supposition that IF filters were relaxed, to hear more
(possible) callers in the passband...hence my greater success there.

I had a very FB QSO with Rod Newkirk (former "How's DX?" editor in QST) from
his Ottawa QTH, and more than a few of the OT's I worked commented on how
well technology from 83 years ago could still sound to-day. The vast
majority of to-day's Hams, though, have apparently been spoiled by the
superlative and near-universal T-9 quality of signals emanating from
to-day's appliances, and when they heard me, more than one hesitated to
respond, and instead, elected to scamper down the band a few KHz, or so, to
call CQ FD again!

I guess chirp & character in one's CW emanations are a foregn concept these
days to most! Hi Hi

Anyway, if I worked you, thanks for the QSO --- if I didn't, well, maybe
next year I'll build up a small oscillator & convert the p-p Colpitts to a
p-p RF amplifier in a MOPA set-up, and try it again, but this time WITHOUT
all of the "...wind modulation." Hi Hi.

Hope you & your respective groups had fun --- I did!

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ

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