I'm not at my usual QTH, unfortunately. I was planning to attend Field Day out at Camp Belzer with the Indianapolis Radio Club and the WD9BSA group, but my mind was operating on two parallel scheduling tracks and I had forgotten that the XYL and I were headed for Florida the same weekend. And yes, vacation with the XYL trumps Field Day. I am not this guy:
(Source: Facebook.) Although that is one sweet rig he's got there…
Since I don't have a go box set up yet, I gave up on the idea of taking an HF radio and accoutrements on the plane. I thought I might wander up to where the local radio club is set up for Field Day and see if the would let me make a few contacts, but it's so durn hot and humid here that I decided to stay at the hotel instead. I am monitoring 2 meters though, just for kicks — and wearing my Field Day T-Shirt!
As I was setting up my HT last night, I discovered that the local repeaters all use TSQL rather than just tone on the input like the vast majority of our toned repeaters do back home. That was kind of a shock, since I've really only ever operated in Indy.
The other interesting thing was that we had some fairly heavy weather here yesterday afternoon, so I started looking for a Skywarn net. But they don't seem to have a Skywarn group here! So I wasn't able to report the waterspout that I saw….