15-11-2017, 07:57 AM
DougF
Unsure at this stage what I will be doing this Field day. Firstly, we have to vote in the Q'ld Election on Saturday and if I am going out into the field, I would be gone from home probably before the local voting locations open at 8AM. I still haven't managed to make it to Kamerun Lookout (QG61OR ? - grid to be checked) on the road to O'Reillys and that is my planned destination IF I go out, weather permitting also. Normally operating frequencies 6M to 3CM would typically apply if portable.
I may end up operating from home (QG62LG51) for the Saturday afternoon and early evening '8 hour section' but I should be able to do all bands 6M to 3CM from here in lieu once the microwave gear is set up. I haven't paid any attention to the uW gear in a while so can only assume it is operating as previously. As is my normal FDs practice, I won't be operating Sunday AM.
I have been a stalwart activator of the FDs for quite a few years but the seemingly dropping participation numbers, particularly for microwave in SE Qld, are making it harder and harder to justify the effort in prep, travel, set-up, participation, pull-down and pack-away phases. I am already contemplating what my future FD involvement will be like from this year onward - and operating portable in every VHF/UHF FD is very unlikely.
73 DougH
Unsure at this stage what I will be doing this Field day. Firstly, we have to vote in the Q'ld Election on Saturday and if I am going out into the field, I would be gone from home probably before the local voting locations open at 8AM. I still haven't managed to make it to Kamerun Lookout (QG61OR ? - grid to be checked) on the road to O'Reillys and that is my planned destination IF I go out, weather permitting also. Normally operating frequencies 6M to 3CM would typically apply if portable.
I may end up operating from home (QG62LG51) for the Saturday afternoon and early evening '8 hour section' but I should be able to do all bands 6M to 3CM from here in lieu once the microwave gear is set up. I haven't paid any attention to the uW gear in a while so can only assume it is operating as previously. As is my normal FDs practice, I won't be operating Sunday AM.
I have been a stalwart activator of the FDs for quite a few years but the seemingly dropping participation numbers, particularly for microwave in SE Qld, are making it harder and harder to justify the effort in prep, travel, set-up, participation, pull-down and pack-away phases. I am already contemplating what my future FD involvement will be like from this year onward - and operating portable in every VHF/UHF FD is very unlikely.
73 DougH
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