Field Day...

It's over for another year.  This year's version of Field Day was a very wet one.  It actually rained, heavily, for about 20 of the 24 hours.  I'm lucky that I have a very good lightweight tarp that attaches to the back of the truck, and gives me a large dry area to work in.

Our club operated as a 5A QRP station, and did quite well given the lousy propagation we had over the weekend. We put 338 contacts in the log, and used 80m through 10m, minus the WARC bands. CW did 153, SSB did 131, and Digi did 54. Not too bad for a QRP battery powered setup.  I guess we'll have to wait until next December, when the ARRL publishes the final scores, to find out how we actually did.

As I said the propagation was not the best, but given what we have had to work with over the last month, we guessed it wouldn't be very good.

Here's a photo of my setup:

And here's the weekends contact map:

Stay Safe out There !!