CQ Amateur Radio

Winter Field Day at WAØPCC

What could be crazier than operating Winter Field Day1 in Iowa in a tent outside that was purchased from Fleet Farm to hold a utility tractor? Second, what else should you do to make it even crazier but to run high power? That was our plan for WFD 2021. We’re pleased to share our experience with you here through words and (mostly) pictures.

First step was planning () and working with a power amplifier (PA) that still needed to be repaired and tested. Rod, Steve, and Mark were up for the task. They had three amps to choose from and so they started to look under the covers and determined to work on an Amp Supply LK-500C running two 3-500Z tubes. This meant that the three of them needed to perform a resurrection on a boneyard PA that).

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