My club, Newport County Radio Club, runs a pretty effective Winter Field Day each year. While we may have left “multipliers” on the table in prior years, we usually have the highest QSO count for Category 1O (one transmitter, outdoors) in the country. This year we maxed out the possible multipliers and had a comparable number of contacts.
My job was to send/receive Winlink messages via RF link from the site, and to make a Linear and FM Satellite Contact. Fortunately things worked out well for both items.
Yours truly shown at Glen Park waiting for a satellite pass. I use an Arrow crossed beam, and an IC-9700. Contacts were made using RS-44 and the ISS Cross-band repeater.
As I was driving away from Glen Park, I took this photo of the beam that was erected in the snowy field (triband beam, plus 6-meter beam, and a support for a multi-band dipole. It pretty much sums up WFD; cold and isolated, but still a thing of beauty.
