Field Day 2021

Well, the ARRL Field Day 2021 is just a few days away, and Carla and I will be spending the weekend at Falling Waters State Park in Chipley, FL.  I am not a big planner.  I tend to kind of "wing it" when it comes to my radio adventures.  That's not to say I don't have some sort of idea as to what I will use and setup.  I'm just saying some people put much more planning into it than I do.  That being said, here are our basic plans.  

Carla and I will be heading up to the park on Friday and spend the night there camping in the back of the truck.  I have a pretty decent camping setup I built in there about a year ago.  So far on our trips it has worked well.  It keeps the rain off (especially nice since we had a rain incident a while back while tent camping where the rain fly did NOT do its job), and has a comfortable sleeping platform built in.  Saturday, we will set up the radio and antenna.  It will be a simple QRP setup with the Icom IC-705, a SOTAbeams bandhopper 20/30/40 linked dipole, my 40ah bioenno battery in its box (box from Powerwerx), and solar setup.  I will be bringing my Windows 10 laptop to work PSK31 mostly.  I really enjoy this mode on Field Day/Winter Field Day.  This is the same setup I used for Winter Field Day in January and it worked well.

Carla and I look forward to spending the weekend camping with good camp food and good radio conditions.  We just hope the weather isn't too hot and the rain will stay away. 

73 and hope to catch a bunch of people on the air.

-Bob