Last weekend John (N7MLS) activated the EOC space at the Forest Lakes Fire station for the Winter Field Day event. There were multiple pitiful attempts to get theAlpha Delta DX-CC multiband dipole in place, but ugliness didn't prevent it from working pretty well. He brought his Yaesu 857d radio and a laptop in order to run some digital contacts in addition to phone. The end result was 21 contacts on 2 bands, with over half being PSK31 digital contacts. John also checked in to the Sunday morning Arizona RACES net. Our ability to quickly set up an HF station for emergency communications was demonstrated successfully.
An obvious future project is to set up some outdoor mounting points for future easy installation of wire antennas.
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