ARRL Field Day 2008

Note: I was really going a little nuts with CW when I wrote my last post. It can be very frustrating.

I was at the field day for Foot Hills Amateur Radio Society. I worked the GET-ON-THE-AIR (GOTA) station. With my lousy hearing, I think the station captain Ron was getting a bit frustrated with me. But I made about 30 contacts over the 3 hours or so I worked the station over the 2 days.

I was even doing some supervision by the end of Saturday.

Saturday evening from about 7PM until about 10PM I logged at the HF station. I was the control operator while a 17YO girl was operating. During contests being a woman or tuning your radio so you sound like a woman is an advantage. The guys want to talk to a woman and the tones of the female voice cuts through the static much better. So she made a whole lot of contacts during her time on the radio.

I joked. I was the most inexperienced control operator supervising an unlicensed station operator.

Overall it was fun. Breaking down was tiring. But exercise is supposed to be a good thing. It was cool finding out how the big antenna are taken down.

Overall, I will be at field day next year. I hope to supervise the GOTA station next year.