Field Day 2010
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G.O.T.A. station's direction antenna rotator. Are rotor plates supposed to be held in place with 14 gauge wire?
KG0US, Dave, connecting the HF phone station's directional antenna rotator.
Bottom view of the phone station's rotator connections.
The site gets a visit from a Raytown Police captain.
The all important Bonus Point checklist. Early on Friday afternoon when only two items had been checked off.
Putting on gloves before picking up stakes. Those things got hot sitting out in the sun!
Staking the base of the HF phone station tower.
The phone station tower sits assembled, waiting on antennas, while the A4 tribander gets mounted onto the G.O.T.A. tower.
Tightening the antenna to mast connections.
Tightening the antenna to mast connections.
We'll put anyone to work if they stand around too long!
Richard seems thoroughly impressed with the pocket sized HD video camera.
The official Supreme Field Day Command pose.
We must have looked pretty suspicious, the police kept showing up.
The lift crew holds onto the G.O.T.A. tower while the final base bolt is tightened down.
The G.O.T.A. tower. It's just not field day until someone mounts an antenna from a 2x4 zip tied to a tower.
One tower up, time for a break in the shade!
KC0ELZ routing cabling on the top of the phone station tower.
KG0US helping to secure coax and rotor control cable to the phone station tower.
Checking things out.
Steve making adjustments to the satellite station antennas... after the elevation angle knife had been taped in place.
The 2010 Field Day safety crew!
Waiting for the last few touches to be put on the phone tower before it is lifted into the air.
Two towers up, time for another break!
Joel and Dennis not moving very fast after placing one of the safety area stakes.
Steve and Steve discussing satellite strategy.
Saturday morning the Red Cross communication truck stopped by for a visit.
Must be nice to have such cool toys!
A rotator failure at the CW station necessitated rewiring the rotor controller.
Luckily the CW station was using the U.S. Tower crank up, making for a fairly painless rotator swap.
With all antennas back up in the air, the CW station resumed making contacts.
The bulk of the CW setup.
All kinds of goodies to eat on Saturday night.
Chips, tea, fruit, brownies and the all important donation cup.
the City of Raytown's mobile command post was used to house both the G.O.T.A. and HF phone stations.
A guy line view of the G.O.T.A. tower.
Field Day - going strong since 1933... held together with zip ties since 1958. At first I thought the zip ties and tent stake where someone's zip tie + Field Day joke. Then I noticed the stake is being used to mend a cracked board. By the way what you're looking at is one of the support tripods for a receive only Beverage antenna made from a long run of twin-lead.
The phone tower.
The phone station in operation.
Looking straight up the phone tower.
The VHF/UHF station for 2010.
Sunset on Saturday.
Talking antennas.
Our educational setup.
Steve and our visiting elected official!
Steve working satellites on Saturday night.
A Saturday night at the phone station.
