07/01/2006 | KP4ES Hello again from Puerto Rico. . . before we did Field Day on June 20th was the second Take Your HT to Work Day, so I did my part again and took the Hello flyer which was read by asistant manager Lenys, plus my HT to explain to my co-worker Mara about what I do, and that with it I work sats and the ISS! (See first photo). I learned that 3 other fellow hams did the same: NP3OD, WP4NHF and NP3CW-congrats!




And once again we went to the Bacardi grounds in Cata. When I got there at 11:00am half the work was done; only things left were the antennas and generators. Operations started after 2pm and CW was first used on 15 meters. Later as time went by the action moved to 20 meters which was the band to be, even after midnight, and all night long! 40 meters was great for CW Sunday morning.




All I did was 20 meters and was happy for being the new multiplier for many stations which needed P.R. on their logs. Oh and gave the APRS demo.




If you see some of the photos "white-ish" is that we had some dust from the Sahara that came to the Caribbean plus the ashes from the Monserrat volcano, and that makes the day very very hot!




We had as always the visit of our Section Manager Victor Madera - KP4PQ as well as other fellow hams who took turns operating.




We had demos on ATV, APRS and satellites as always.




The highlight of the event was when Orlando Gotay,a representative of the city of San Juan and is recently WP4NPV came with a proclamation from the Mayor Jorge A. Santini stating June Amateur Radio month in San Juan.




Also we had our first "Ham - Crab" so to say, who did not know if to operate phone or CW.




The W1AW message was copied on CW Sunday morning.




Operators were:
Eric-NP3A and organizer of FD 2006
Danny-WP4F
Mario-KP4NNC
Angel-NP4CQ
Jose-KP4JRS
Pedro-KP4SQ
Francisco-NP3OD
Tony-KP4IA (ATV)
Edgardo-KP4QY
Victor-KP4PQ
and yours truly.




Giving a hand and visiting were:
Gabriel-WP4NSB
Javier-WP4DX
Carlos-KP4GL
Jose-WP3HY
Tomas-WP4BH
Nestor-WP4BL
Oscar-WP4NHF
Hector-WP3ZZ
Jose-WP4NK
Alexis-WP3ZN
Vilmarie-WP4NRM
and Jose-KP4JFR




And thanks again for the Bacardi Corporation for lending their grounds.




Hope you like the photos; at least I had a great and fun time!



More photos: www.prarl.org/fd2006/htm
To see Proclamation: www.prarl.org/Proclama.pdf (need Adobe Acrobat to open)



73's y hasta la proxima de Angel Santana -- WP3GW