Field Day 2016!

[N8YX]

Who's playing, what (and where) are you running, which bands?

I'm going to use my 101 twins on 10 and 15, and just dragged a TS-820S/R-820 set out of storage for use on 80-40-20...maybe 15 as well.

OldToob Skool FD is Best FD. There will be a few non-ham friends of mine participating here and at least one wants to become licensed. What better way to break them in to the hobby than with something which requires peak-n-load with every frequency excursion ... ...:rofl:

[W3WN]

I'll spend a little time at N3SH 2A again this year. (Hey TRAV! Located in South Park. You're invited! Well, so is everyone else, but you're probably the closest!)

Since there's a home baseball game Saturday night, and the Boss expects an escort, I'll probably be on the late shift again. If I make it.

W3WH broke an ankle a few weeks back, so he's going to operate FD 1D or 1E from home. I may come down and lend a hand.

Or I may just veg out and operate a casual 1D from home. We shall see.

[NQ6U]

Working/traveling that weekend. Gonna be up in Oaktown for a while, then a few other places in NorCal.

[W2NAP]

I doubt I will do anything.

[KD8TUT]

Well, I've usually done field day with my favorite club, The 220Mhz Guys and Gals out of Chicago. This year it seems too much to make the drive.

So there's a local club with field day ops about 8 miles south of me. I'll visit, make a donation, and eat their food.

Really do not enjoy contesting- but very much love field day. Last year a retired Northrup Grumman engineer who worked on the lunar lander chose my humble weak signal VHF station to hang out at. Picked his brain for 10 hours. Contacts be damned!

[KG4NEL]

I'll be helping people set up and break down, but probably won't be on the air much except for a few hours on Sunday.

W4EZ, 9A NC. Everything except Top Band (although we were crazy enough to do it one year...)

[WZ7U]

I guess I'm a class B this time. I'd go 1B battery but I don't want to have my battery crap out and not be able to use the pickup for power. Using a camping trip as an excuse to play radio this year. 6 meters in the mornings, 15/20 meters afternoons & 40/75 as appropriate the rest of the way around the clock. SSB mainly, CW if I work up the nerve but willing to do some slow speed if I get any takers (probably nothing but speed demons out there on FD). Just a few miles from my last 7qp effort in cn85, SE Clatsop county (NW Oregon) up an old logging road. Hope the housesitter doesn't tear it up too much. Was supposed to leave Wednesday but looks like Thursday at best.

Hope to work islanders on this outing but I'm betting my little pistol gets lost in the shuffle.

[KC2UGV]

Me and the youngest will be heading out to a NYS Forest to camp. While there, I plan on doing some 1B operating, digital on 20, 30, and 10; with a smattering of SSB voice. Of course, digital on 30 won't be "field day ops", but I like 30M.

Really, this is just an excuse to drag the station out to the campsite.

[W3WN]

A couple of us think it would be really fun, one Field Day, to camp out with a GelCell, decent QRP rig, some wire or lightweight antennas, and a solar panel for daytime power and recharging.

Nothing fancy.

Problem is that one of "us" is the club's Field Day chair, and another is the club's Contest coordinator. Normally, they'd be expected to be waiving the baton at FD. (Only the coordinator will be out of town at a family wedding, and the FD chair will be home with a busted ankle. So we shall see)

[KG4NEL]

A couple of us think it would be really fun, one Field Day, to camp out with a GelCell, decent QRP rig, some wire or lightweight antennas, and a solar panel for daytime power and recharging.

That's about what my HF station is going to be all the time, lol.