~~ Field Day 2003 page ~~
(22-23 June... check dates)

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[ Left:  Dan Macone, AA3TB and A.J. Farmer, AJ3U tweaking the A0-40 transmit antenna ]

[ Center:  Assembled tri-bander from Garner Hayden, W3SI awaiting installation on tower ]

[ Right:  REACT communications van providing 'talk-in' to the field day site ]

 

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[ Left:  Inside view of the REACT communications trailer ]

[ Center: Ground crew completing installation of the 30' tower ]

[ Right: Completed 30' tower with tri-bander and 6-meter Mosley vertical on top ]

 

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[ Left: Pete, WA3UMY; Barry, WR3Z and Tom Kunkel, K3DSP unloading generator from trailer ]

[ Center: A.J. Farmer, AJ3U 'anchoring' the tower base ]

[ Right: Getting ready to pull up the tower ]

 

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[ Left: "Hey... how does this go up anyway?" ]

[ Center: Cal Spreitzer, N3CAL gets ready to 'pull' the tower up to vertical... well, maybe! ]

[ Right:  Tom Kunkel, Garner Hayden and Barry - "Now what do we do?" ]

 

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[ Left:  Gene Talley, N3NO and Garner Hayden attach the beam supports ]

[ Center: "Darn... there's a short in the cable!" ]

[ Right: View of the 40' x 40' tent we operated under this year ]

 

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[ Left: Fixing a problem with the beam ]

[ Center: More of the same ]

[ Right: Jon, K1NV hard at it ]

 

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[ Jon, K1NV calls "CQ Field Day" ]

[ Center:  Testing out a battery-operated transceiver with PSK-31 ]

[ Right:  Pulling up some sloper antennas for HF operations ]

 

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[ Ray Brown, KB3FWW hooks up some dipoles ]

[ Center: A.J. aims his Arrow UHF beam towards AO-40 ]

[ Right:  Another view of the big top tent we used this year ]

 

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[ Left:  Another view of the 'antenna farm' at our field day site ]

[ Center: The 100' foot tower we used to anchor our dipoles ]

[ Right:  Another view of the tri-bander beam ]

 

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[ Left:  The Satellite guys hard at work ]

[ Center:  Pete, Gene and Cal discussing the weather ]

[ Right: Still more satellite operations ]

 

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[ Left/Center/Right:  More satellite attempts - have you ever seen so many small antennas? ]

 

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[ Tuning the bands for contacts... ]

 

[ Copy of 5 July 2002 article in "The Enterprise" newspaper detailing our FD operation ]
        

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