Spent a few hours on the USS Yorktown yesterday activating it for Museum Ships Weekend as WA4USN. I had the Saturday afternoon shift from noon-4PM. Didn’t bother to count how many contacts I made, but managed to get a few in the log.
Operated mostly on 20m in seek and pounce mode as well as sitting on a frequency calling CQ. I wasn’t able to generate any pileups like some of the other ship stations out there, but there were a few times where I got a nice steady flow of contacts.
The band was pretty noisy with lots of QSB while I was operating. Contacts would be booming in one minute, and by the end of the QSO would be almost down in the noise. Still, it was a lot of fun getting back on the radio and making contacts. Getting to play radio on the Yorktown is always a lot of fun.
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We logged about 323 contacts (N1MM+ said 323, but I think LOTW said 326). Since our operators don’t use the ctrl-O feature to indicate who’s operating, I can’t break down the per-operator numbers.
We had some pileups going over the weekend 🙂
Thanks for putting the ship on the air. I’m glad I got to talk you!