W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to Its Roots:

Some younger radio amateurs may not realize that ARRL Field Day has been a staple operating event for more than 80 years. Former ARRL Communications Manager F. E. Handy, W1BDI, is credited with conceiving "International Field Day" in 1933, although it wasn't until the following year that he described it as the "test of the emergency availability of portable stations and equipment" we know today. For Field Day 2017, the crew at the Karns City Amateur Radio Club, W8CDX, once again took Field Day equipment back to the 1930s -- a time when the notion of "portable" applied only loosely to equipment of the era. Last year, W8CDX used a National HRO-5 receiver and a style of transmitter similar to something that could have been used at that first Field Day. This time, everything was home built.

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