I’ve eagerly awaited Field Day 2020 since we packed up BOB In January from Winter Field Day. I was hoping The Nashua Area Radio Society would be able to meet as a group as Field Day is a social event almost as much as it is an emergency preparedness event, but COVID-19 has necessitated a retooling of field day into something different from what we are used to.

I will be operating from my home station from commercial power in Kingston. I will be running my Icom 746  barefoot to a G5RV up about 30-35 feet and a newly constructed homebrew fountain antenna as seen in the May issue of QST. I have high hopes for this antenna to cover bands that the G5RV doesn’t do particularly well. I have radiating elements cut for 80, 40, 20, 10, and 6 meters but it’s 80  and to a lesser extent 40 meters that I’m really interested in. The rest I can do with the G5RV.

I plan to spend most of my time on SSB but I plan to give the digital modes some time as well.

73`

Jim Lajoie  K1BRM