Very cool I told the guys not to point the beam at me but there must have been good DX in my direction hi hi... we use band pass filters as well; it was just my station with the most interference problems. My 5 watts on 20m with the K1 did not bother the 100+ watt ssb 20m station... We live in what you folks call fly over country so we have to swing the beam or run a less directional antenna like a vertical...I needed more distance from that station field day Saturday. Lessons learned for next year...
72/73/Scotty/NUØS Mark Pride <mpride...@yahoo.com> wrote: Scotty, Our club has successfully run 5A for the past 6 years and winning every year. We run a CW and SSB station on each band at the same time while keeping within the 5A rules. No issue but we use bandpass filters (to keep the other bands out) and separate the stations by a few hundred feet and being from the east coast, point our yagis (monoband yagis) West and place the deepest null in the pattern toward the station at the other end of the band. Works well. I recall a few times of testing, no noise from SSB while listening on the CW end of the band - nice! Regards, Mark, K1RX PCARC FD 2013 K1T ________________________________ From: Scotty Long <n...@hotmail.com> To: Ray Sills <raysil...@verizon.net>; elecraft Post <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ARRL Field Day Our club was running 5A with SSB and CW stations on 20m at the same time... Bad choice... 73/Scotty/NU0SK1-4 #3206K2 I hope to build one as soon as I save up enough lunch money...HI HI.. > From: raysil...@verizon.net > To: n...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ARRL Field Day > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:27:44 -0400 > > Hi Scotty: > > With two stations.... you guys should have set rules: no operating - > in- the same band at the same time. One station, say, on 20 and the > other on 15 during daylight, then one on 80 and one on 20 or 40 at > night. > > In my case, I was solo.... 1B battery.... so it didn't matter. :) > > 73 de Ray > K2ULR > KX3 #211 > > > On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Scotty Long wrote: > > > ARRL Field Day... > > Well I had a good time talking with friends and family that was > > about it. The heat on Saturday here in Nebraska was terrible the > > measured temp inside my tent was 104+ F with 90+++% humidity. But > > hey that's what is says in the course description "Other than > > favorable conditions". I had the Elecraft K1 all set up and tried to > > call Polar Bear Kens furry hide WA8REI on 20m CW as he finished a > > QSO with no joy Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. I was all set to run then the front > > end of K1 was overloaded by our 20m phone station running a beam at > > about 40 feet. Every time they called CQ field day I just could not > > do anything. I switched to my back up rig the Yaesu FT817... The > > AGC cut the audio on this rig as well but at least I was able to do > > some quick search and pounce work between the phone stations > > transmissions. I think I worked 17 total contacts Wow... Just for > > information the phone ssb station was running a Drake TR7 100+ watts > > into a 20m beam 40ft. I had the K1 or FT817 into a Buddipole v > > ertical antenna at close to maximum separation ARRL field day > > rules... all station properly grounded... I shut down late afternoon > > and departed the area for cold air and drink... P.S. we all run band > > pass filters but we were on the same band... > > 73/Scotty/NU0S/Field Day K0KKV/Nebraska > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net/ > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net/ Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
