I heard about Winter Field Day about late November 2016 and I decided that I wanted to get in on the action. I didn’t prepare too much for this event because I usually do portable operations anyway. As you can see by the picture below, we threw stuff in the car and went to some family property nearby and set up in the middle of a field.

First things first is to set up camp. We absolutely love our CVT rooftop tent.

My winter field day operating buddy -Oscar

Lucy loves sleeping……

I mainly used the Icom IC-730 for most of  my operations. I did switch over and use my Icom IC-706.

Yours truly used a fan dipole with a 1:1 balun for 80m, 40m, 20m on a 12 foot painters pole. Personally have had very good luck with this setup .

Indeed we had enough room to let the wiener dogs run and play.

Sunrise with temps in the 20’s…

Nothing like some hashbrowns for breakfast.

Made 83 contacts from southwest Missouri including one in Hawaii.

Could not have ask for a better operating view! This event was so much fun I am looking forward to the next Winter Field Day in 2018!