I joined the Charleston ARS on the USS Yorktown once again, now that we’re able to meet in person. The panoramic shot above shows the digital/CW operating position under the tarp on the left as we were cleaning up (click through for VR version).
We got off to a slow start, as the usual 2pm start-of-FD thunderstorm failed to appear. We were 2A SC with one station dedicated to phone and the other swapping between CW and digital.
Couldn’t get the RTTY to decode initially, not that there’s much RTTY on FD any more. Got FT8 going and our operator made a handful of contacts.
AA2BB was our CW operator again, and I had the opportunity to log for him. Always good CW practice, and I was able to log many of his contacts without having to look at his notes. Steve wanted to run on 20m CW, which was a challenge, but we did well.
Sunday morning 10m opened up on phone and that’s where we spent most of our time. 15m FT8 was somewhat productive too. I got RTTY decode working, but there just wasn’t any action there.
I’m still not a huge fan of Field Day, but it was good to get out again.