Amateur Radio Field Day on the Bike....

I spent the afternoon out at the Shawnee Mission Park...  I never found out if it was a city park or a county park, but that didn't matter....  I was with the ham radio club....   That I haven't seemed to attend much in the past couple of years...

They were having their Field Day Exercise and I arrived in the sleepy part of the afternoon when things were getting really warm...  I rode in on the Motor Cycle......

Not long after I arrived, I learned that one of my ham friends had just had surgery for prostate cancer.....  Of course I know all about this kind of thing...  But luckily he was able to have the camera scope surgery and was only in the hospital for a couple of days...

I was able to work with him on the main voice station for a couple of hours when no one else seemed to be interested in its operation....  We made about 60 contacts, until supper arrived.........

At that time we all had catered Bar Be Cue..  Brisket and Pork on big tenderloin size buns.......  Did I get it off of my face yet..?  LOL

By about 7 PM the heat of the day was starting to get to me, so I jumped on the bike and rode home......  The younger kids can take over from here......

I've been listening to the repeater here at my chair since and the folks seem to be going out for the night shift...  One was just asking if the gate would still be open to the park.......  I remember when I used to take those night shifts...

We also used to do all the cooking and cleaning up afterwards, but our leadership struck on the idea of having it catered and that was a super idea....

So that wraps up the activities here for today......

Retired Rod