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    From Jeff Smith@1:282/1031 to All on Sat Jun 22 19:33:28 2019
    Hello There,

    Attended a couple Field Day locations near me today. Tried my hand at the usual
    HF 80m/40m/20m, and VHF 2m, and UHF 70cm bands. But this time I also tried some
    satellite QSO's. The com cycles were rather short but did make some contacts.


    Jeff


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  • From Jimmy Anderson@1:116/17 to Jeff Smith on Fri Jun 28 23:34:00 2019
    Jeff Smith wrote to All <=-

    Hello There,

    Attended a couple Field Day locations near me today. Tried my hand at
    the usual
    HF 80m/40m/20m, and VHF 2m, and UHF 70cm bands. But this time I also tried some satellite QSO's. The com cycles were rather short but did
    make some contacts.

    I'm not active at all other than local repeaters and such, but I
    wouldn't mind making a satellite connection sometime... :-) Not
    on my bucket list, but it is on my 'would be cool' list. :-)




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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JEFF SMITH on Sat Jul 6 10:47:00 2019
    Jeff,

    Attended a couple Field Day locations near me today. Tried my hand at the us JS>HF 80m/40m/20m, and VHF 2m, and UHF 70cm bands. But this time I also tried s JS>satellite QSO's. The com cycles were rather short but did make some contacts

    I heard FT8 was used heavily. I didn't make it at all...I was staying
    at a local motel, after storm damage resulted in no power or air
    conditioning at my home for nearly 2 weeks.

    Daryl

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  • From Jeff Smith@1:14/6 to Daryl Stout on Sun Jul 7 07:14:01 2019
    Hello Daryl,

    Attended a couple Field Day locations near me today. Tried my hand at the us JS>HF 80m/40m/20m, and VHF 2m, and UHF 70cm bands. But this time I also tried s JS>satellite QSO's. The com cycles were rather short but did make some contacts

    I heard FT8 was used heavily. I didn't make it at all...I was staying
    at a local motel, after storm damage resulted in no power or air conditioning at my home for nearly 2 weeks.

    Glad to hear that things were any worse than they could have been.

    There were a few people at FD that were doing FT4, FT8, and PSK*. I did notice thought that sadly there were fewer people doing CW contacts. The sat freqs were jammed though. :-)

    Jeff
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