K4AMG was GOTA station for W4CAR. The Lea's operated both FO29 and HF.
I noticed on our first FO 29 pass that our 2 meter preamp had blown form a storm that passed within a few miles of us so there were no contacts then. It was receiving ISS before the storm. So we removed the preamp and made contacts the next pass. Seems when the preamp blows the switching circuit goes too. The kids made another 5 contacts on FO 29 later. They did an equally well job on HF.
There are a bunch of stills and videos that WX4TV will assemble in to a short program.
N2COP ARRL Vice Director Roanoke Division dropped by and took pictures with the kids next to our SATCOM antennas.
Despite the storms and tornado warnings we had a great time at FD.
God Bless
R W4BUE
----- Original Message ----- From: kb2m@arrl.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Field Day
I worked two passes, one on FO-29, the other AO-73. I was trying to work stations that appeared to me, to be looking for their only contact. I made 2 contacts. I just looked at my notes, I had over 15 calls written down, another words I heard them but they weren't hearing me. My guess is that all of them couldn't find or hear me on their downlink. The one regular sat user I did work was Paul, on the first call. A usual FD on the sats :-)
73 Jeff kb2m
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Paul Stoetzer Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 10:00 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Field Day
How did everyone's Field Day go? Heard quite a bit of QSOs made. Heard quite a bit of struggling too!
Weather was awful, so I was just operating from the grounds of my apartment building here in DC. I managed 20 QSOs with 5 watts, which wasn't easy with how overloaded the transponders were with strong signals.
Next year maybe I'll help out a local club on the sats.
73,
Paul, N8HM
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