2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day
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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
Doug VK4ADC @ QG62LG51
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2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 08-10-2017, 11:31 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 01-11-2017, 04:25 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4OE - 14-11-2017, 10:20 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 15-11-2017, 07:57 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2ZRH - 15-11-2017, 08:24 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4OE - 16-11-2017, 09:13 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 16-11-2017, 06:05 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2KRR - 19-11-2017, 02:58 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK3QI - 21-11-2017, 10:17 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 22-11-2017, 04:27 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2JDS - 25-11-2017, 05:55 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 26-11-2017, 07:37 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2KRR - 26-11-2017, 10:18 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK3QI - 26-11-2017, 08:16 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK3AV - 26-11-2017, 09:42 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 27-11-2017, 06:50 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2JDS - 27-11-2017, 07:10 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2KRR - 27-11-2017, 08:00 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK3CWF - 29-11-2017, 09:40 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK5ZD - 30-11-2017, 12:37 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4OE - 03-12-2017, 09:04 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK5ZD - 03-12-2017, 12:19 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2ZRH - 03-12-2017, 02:01 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 04-12-2017, 07:08 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2ZRH - 04-12-2017, 01:13 PM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK4ADC - 15-12-2017, 07:45 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2ZRH - 15-12-2017, 10:45 AM
RE: 2017 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day - by VK2AZ - 15-12-2017, 06:32 PM

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