Art, Mazel Tov! Your grandson looks like he’s already curious about the world, and I hope that grandpa can encourage him to get involved in our wonderful pastime. Field Day has been interesting here. My first one with the new whole house battery system, 28.8kWh, 14.4kW inverter (total) and temporarily connected solar panels (6.4kW worth) so my whole house is off grid this weekend. Why not a real test rather than just powering radios? Once the panels are in their final location I should have much better solar production as well. It's so much better than having a noisy petrol generator running all weekend. Of course there is that option for cloudy days. With 100W on the flex it was plenty to spare. I did get out and visited some sites in NJ, and it was interesting to reconnect with old friends. Did some drone footage at Morris radio club in whippany. They sent me a radiogram thanking me for the visit. 73 Ria N2RJ ________________________________ From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> on behalf of Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2022 4:13:44 PM To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:33805] Field Day and sharing good news This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons. On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared. Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA. He is our first grandson. He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old). His picture is included below. As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager. (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.) Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive. Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site. I lusted after that radio. It cost $1,751 in 1962. (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.) I bought one, I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night. I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day. Pretty amazing. It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day. It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below. Hope you all had a great weekend. 73 Art K0AIZ -- Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ ARRL Midwest Division Director Chair, Ethics and Elections Committee Member, Programs and Services Committee ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio® [cid:part1.Ciq0KDD8.3RMvU0CM@arrl.org] [cid:part2.moH7k65d.0IYlcXY5@arrl.org]
