ARRL Field Day 1971

WA0YLE (now KN0V), WA0VIS, WA0VPJ, and WA0VPK (now AE0Q) operated
from a hill near River Falls, Wisc.. Great location, terrible generator!

• Our Field Day site - looking across western Wisconsin.


• Stan WA0VIS and 4BTV vertical, view of eastern Minnesota.


• Messing with rented generator, (L to R) WA0YLE, WA0VIS, WA0VPJ.


• What's this for???


• Two are better than one, maybe (Stan WA0VIS, Bruce WA0VPJ).


• Gary WA0YLE (now KN0V) operating SSB. Later in the day the
  generator lost it's regulator, the AC voltage shot up and smoke
  came out of his NCX-5 !!


• Bruce, Gary, and Stan
on the hill at sunset.

• Sunset over Minnesota from the biggest hill around.


• Stan WA0VIS on CW with my Ten Tec PM3A. We gave up on the
  NCX-5 since the generator was unstable. I had just bought the
  little PM3A to take to Calif where I was starting Navy ET 'A' School.


• Still on the air (Stan WA0VIS) even without a generator. The PM3A
  ran on two 6v lantern batteries that I mounted in a school lunchbox.


• Some of the stuff that we carried up the hill from the cars.

1971 was our worst Field Day ever - never trust a rental generator!!

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