2025 Winter Field Day

Nadezhda and Alex repair the Carolina Windom dipole antenna

Bob and Neil pump up Craig's pneumatic antenna launcher

Bob and Jim plan to get a line up over a very high branch

The line goes up successfuly for the Carolina 160+ dipole

Solder lug improvements on the Hustler vertical ground radials

The Hustler vertical raised. Don't worry, it's well away from those power lines! 😀

The Hustler 6BTV with 16 - 32ft ground radials spread

Looks comfy and warm in there! Bob, Sid, Alex, and Nadezhda

The operating station. Elecraft KX3 with digital, Yaesu FT-450 for phone, N3FJP Winter Field Day logging software.

Bob logged the most contacts. A real contester! Congrats to all of our participants. We got 8 of the 11 multipliers.

Our operating station, the Resource Trailer. You can almost see the dipole strung across the road (yellow caution tape) and the Hustler coax protected on the ground.

Results: 71 contacts (60 phone, 11 digital), 25 sections, 22 states, Canada & Hawaii. 17x multiplier for a total score of 1,207 points. Contacts made on 6 bands: 70cm, 2m, 10m, 15m, 20m, 40m