Our club will be participating in our 3rd WFD in North Central PA. We run 2 stations on bat/solar at 100w through fullwave loop antennas. LOVE IT! Listen for us W3VPJ! 73 WE3D
Just spoke to an HB9 Swiss Ham near Bern, the Capitol, and where a relative lived some time ago My Mother was from Zurich too. The QSO from here on a local NY KQ2H repeater to Switzerland on the 10 Meter KQ2H repeater in SE NY. Gruetsi, 73 de W2CH Ray, Peekskill, NY. Since 1962. 😊
Screwdriver antenna on my SUV hatch! Works well. Just a diamond so nothing huge... gives me 80-10 meters! Guy near me operates part of the winter from his ice fishing shack on the lake! Once the ice is thick enough he is out there almost every day!
APRS if it orginated as RF, but it doesn't have to later stay as RF was new to me! Thank you. That clears up packet radio as well. Perhaps 2026 could have a club BBS to attempt to log on to 🤔😉
Not the least bit interested. It's "Winter Sit On Your Ass In Your Shack With Your QRO Rig And Big Antenna Day". Going into the field with a QRP rig and portable antenna is an exercise in futility when those guys just treat it as another contest.
It’s 100 watts max. No clue what you’re talking about. When I joined the club in the field doing QRP we did a fantastic job. Your comment comes across as uninformed opinion instead of any practical experience talking.
Glad you had a good experience. I hauled my stuff out into the cold in Utah a couple of years ago and spent hours trying to make SSB contacts while every station calling CQ got pileups of H and I class stations registering S7 and above that were impossible to break through with QRP. Complete waste of time.Did slightly better with digital modes, which at least confirmed my system was working. Not enough "field" in WFD. @HamRadioCrashCourse
Josh, you'll have these naysayers on every aspect in life, no matter what it is that you intend to do. I enjoy what you do, so keep it up bro! Much 💙 @HamRadioCrashCourse 73 The WP4 @ SATX
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Our club will be participating in our 3rd WFD in North Central PA. We run 2 stations on bat/solar at 100w through fullwave loop antennas. LOVE IT! Listen for us W3VPJ! 73 WE3D
Just spoke to an HB9 Swiss Ham near Bern, the Capitol,
and where a relative lived some time ago
My Mother was from Zurich too.
The QSO from here on a local
NY KQ2H repeater to Switzerland on the 10 Meter
KQ2H repeater in SE NY.
Gruetsi, 73 de W2CH Ray,
Peekskill, NY. Since 1962. 😊
Screwdriver antenna on my SUV hatch! Works well. Just a diamond so nothing huge... gives me 80-10 meters!
Guy near me operates part of the winter from his ice fishing shack on the lake! Once the ice is thick enough he is out there almost every day!
"It's not a contest..."
Sure! Sure!
🤣
I will be doing field day off grid. Witha heater and solar haha
Doing field day in Alaska isn’t hard in parks. Nearly no parks close at dark. Shoot we have about 5 hours of daylight on winter solstice.
Well done Don.
Don is the best!
APRS if it orginated as RF, but it doesn't have to later stay as RF was new to me! Thank you. That clears up packet radio as well. Perhaps 2026 could have a club BBS to attempt to log on to 🤔😉
Im trying ham nation 😢
CW
Not the least bit interested. It's "Winter Sit On Your Ass In Your Shack With Your QRO Rig And Big Antenna Day". Going into the field with a QRP rig and portable antenna is an exercise in futility when those guys just treat it as another contest.
It’s 100 watts max. No clue what you’re talking about. When I joined the club in the field doing QRP we did a fantastic job. Your comment comes across as uninformed opinion instead of any practical experience talking.
Glad you had a good experience. I hauled my stuff out into the cold in Utah a couple of years ago and spent hours trying to make SSB contacts while every station calling CQ got pileups of H and I class stations registering S7 and above that were impossible to break through with QRP. Complete waste of time.Did slightly better with digital modes, which at least confirmed my system was working. Not enough "field" in WFD. @HamRadioCrashCourse
Josh, you'll have these naysayers on every aspect in life, no matter what it is that you intend to do. I enjoy what you do, so keep it up bro! Much 💙 @HamRadioCrashCourse
73 The WP4 @ SATX
Wow, what a downer comment. We set up on emergency power, no shore power, and we learn a lot.