... so, the smoke has cleared from the first KT5DIG QRP Solar Digital Field Day ...
(more to follow)
We set up three stations battery powered QRP ( class 3AB) radios and found ourselves keeping two of them pretty busy.
STATION 1: (KA5TRO / Tony)
Icom 703
Rig Blaster Plug and Play
Laptop PC.
STATION 2: (KD5NJR / Scott)
FT-817
Rig Blaster Plug and Play
Laptop PC.
Tony provided the Optima Yellow Top batteries. They worked great with some solar panels and a charge controller.
We'll continue to experiment with his wind generator... It could use some more blades.
His vertical Outbacker Antennas worked well during the initial hours of Field Day, then we moved over to a dipole antenna Scott Mayes KC5SHE put together.
Thanks for Scott and Russell Mayes KC5SHE / KF5VDY for the hospitality and to our extra operators Steve Miller and Steve Stone KE5URG.
After working some bugs out, early (unofficial) results are 100 digital , solar , qrp contacts for 1,000 points and 50 phone qrp ( still solar ) contacts for 250 points.
... more to follow
73 de kd5njr
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