[KF5BET]

Coming late here....Our club W5DDL operated a 2a station.

We had a week of solid rain, so could not get the mobile operations vehicle or the antenna trailer out of storage (field behind members house) because of the rain.

We set up at a remote location (members family house in the country) which had a large covered porch on the very large metal shop building, pool, stocked pond, no electrical overhead and a lot of trees. Absolutely perfect location. Threw a couple of wire antennas up into trees and were ready for action about an hour before kick off.

Operated radios from generator and operated all radios for the entire 24 hour period (minus 2 hours around 4am...). We had 12 operators and logged 945 contacts. The girls made 160 of those contacts on 20m (needless to say they had a blast). We were in it for fun, not points. Worked 40m, 20m and 15m. Had no CW or digital....maybe next year.

We had a lot of fellowship, food and fun. Was worried about the weather, but it cleared up Saturday afternoon and was nice all through the weekend even if it was hot. Thank goodness for those large shop fans!