Hi all,

Well field day for me was a real blast. Somehow, because I was doing VHF/UHF weak signal before HF, I always get snarkled into running the weak signal station.

This year was my first year running a station for our club. We had 6m, 2m, and 220, stacked on a mobile tower. The first time I had access to a tower for weak signal.

Wow.. what fun!

Now here's where I became educated:

At one point I started hearing CW interference on the WS station. I went around to the HF stations but the transmissions were not matching. It was just the club call sign over and over.

Turns out- it was the fox from our foxhunt at 100mw. What was learned: A dirty transmitter is always dirty dirty.

While we are only a 2A, we do have 75 members, 50 of which showed for field day. So it was hard to fully communicate what was happening when. But when I pieced it together the the lightbulb was burning bright!!