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My first field day	Reply
by KD0TRG on June 29, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I just got licensed in December of 2008, so this was my first Field Day experience. Originally I had planned to haul my gear to a local mountain top, in fact I just purchased my battery last weekend. Well my plans changed at the last minute and I ended up driving from AZ to CO over the Field Day weekend…. As it turned out I worked contacts most of Saturday and part of Sunday as I drove, was lots of fun. This was actually the first real test of my mobile installation. An ICOM IC-7000 and the AH-4 Coupler, connected to a stainless mast 30 inch and a 102 inch whip. As I drove I could hear signals come and go on various frequencies, but most of my time was straight line travel across 40 and later up 25. I was amazed that I could talk to almost everyone that I could hear, all I had to do was try. It seemed that adding MOBILE to the end of my call sign really helped me get through the pile ups. Maybe I answered your CQ CQ FIELD DAY…. KD0TRG

RE: My first field day	Reply
by KI9A on July 3, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Very cool! It gets addictive...I did my 1st FD in 1978, when I was 14. Still get a charge out of it. 73- Chuck KI9A

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