07/03/2003 | KR7SUB Here's a few shots of a rather unique Field Day Site...a Russian Foxtrot Class Submarine! The sub is docked in
Seattle, Washington and is a popular tourist attraction. We had hundreds of visitors to the site over
the course of the event.

The sub is the home of KR7SUB, The Foxtrot Amateur Radio Club. In the centre of the sail, you can see the Field Day
Antenna, a trap vertical, lashed to.....the RDF antenna! The sub's original communications antenna,
also a vertical, can be seen to the left, and to the front are two periscopes. No, it's not a log-periodic
experiment, it's just how things worked out.

Here is another shot of the sail, from the front of the boat. This picture is a little more typical of
Seattle's famous weather.

Here is a shot of the operating position, with Jon Meigs, WB1AJJ at the mic. Most operations were CW,
however, as band conditions were not very favorable.

We ran the entire weekend on a deep cycle marine battery, borrowed from a fellow sailor who has
lived onboard a sailboat in the Northwest for over 19 years. It performed flawlessly, and had sufficient
capacity to run the station for the entire event without charging. Too bad the sub's original batteries
weren't on board, we could run emergency power until the hull rusts through! -- WB1AJJ