ARRL Field Day - 2010

I spent another ARRL Field Day operating QRP from a mountain in northern Idaho. Everything went extremely well and the only problem was the horse flies the size of 50 cent pieces. They were cunning and dangerous.

I camped at 5000 feet with a big dropoff to the east. I put up two wire antennas in the abundant 100+ foot trees. I used my K2 at five watts and N1MM logger on my laptop. The laptop comsumed much, much more power than the K2. I felt conditions were quite good and worked stations on 80 through 15 meters. You can search my log to see if I worked you by clicking on Log Search

Here are a few pictures... You can click on them to see a larger version.


This is my camp -- notice the lazy-H at the top.


This is my high-band antenna -- a lazy-H with the top at 100 feet or so and fed with ladder line.


This is my operating position. I used a K2 and N1MM logger -- both of which performed flawlessly, but then I knew they would.


This is a view looking east from where I camped.