Cap'n Vic and the Providence Radio Association ARRL Field Day, June 2010 Conanicut Island W1OP / W1PRA	Photo of Providence Radio Association's Field Day site copyright by FasanoPhotoGraphics.com Islands on the Air NA-031
Cap'n Vic is proud to be a part of the Providence Radio Association's ARRL Field Day Team. For nearly 50 years many of these guys have participated in the annual Emergency Communications Preparedness Drill held once a year thoughout the US. This year we actually had a equal number of "youngsters" to balance out the program. YouTube Videos of the exciting Beam Raising are at: Installing the Beam on the Mast Raising the Mast Using a Mercedes to lower the antenna W1OP FIELD DAY SENIOR ROLL CALL 50+ years: Frank, W1EYH 1956; Tommy, W1IUP 1956; Paulie, W1PRA; John, W1GS 1958; Vic, WW4OK 1958 40 years: Dom, N1DM; Dave, K1DT; John KZ1Z ... 20+ years: Dennis 'the menace' K1PLX; Brown, W1NZR
Dennis, K1LPX, joined Team W1OP 1986, but first FD elsewhere 1961. Dave [then WA1QOG] and John [then K1HZN] ... 1975 Dave [K1DT] and John [W1GS] ... 2010 W1OP Military Commo Gear Director "Brown" ... W1NZR John ... W1GS ... 1959 [Cap'n Vic took photos then, too] John ... W1GS ... 2010 [Happens to be Cap'n Vic's Brother-in-law] We were not able to get photos of all the crew as we were operating a bit of time ... but if there are photos out there ... email to Vic2010@CaptainVic.com Comments re "da Blog" via Vic2010@CaptainVic.com       Hi Guys, Thanks for including me in the group seeing the FD Blog for W1OP. My first FD with the PRA was probably 1955 --- I was licensed as WN1HIJ in 54 and moved to general sometime in 55. All the names are of course familiar to me, but I moved from New England in 68 and haven't been back to live since except for a brief stint in Boston in 81 and 82.       As John Good said, in recent years, I've been doing Field Day with a small group of people (8 or 9) in various places around the world. We are "chartered" as the Pina Colada Contest Club (KP2AA) and we did FD from Puerto Rico (as NP4A) in 2002, from outside Havana Cuba as CO0US and T42FD in 2003, as KP2AA in 2004 and 2005.       We tried to go back to Cuba this year (2010) but were stymied by the US bureaucracy, so we went to plan B which was to do FD from near Devil's Tower in WY. (Remember Close Encounters of the Third Kind?). Cheers, and thanks for keeping me in the loop. 73 de Bill, W1HIJ -- Upland, CA -- DM14edCWOps # 709Other callsigns: FO0SCH, FO8DX, KP2AA, CO0US       "Great Job" to all on the BEST field day ever ( and I've been on 47 of them !). This year there was real teamwork on all stations. HORAY !!! Sorry I was 'under the weather' towards the end. My first FD was in 1961 (W1IHO). My first time with the PRA was about 1986 (24 yrs) 73's.............Dennis 'the menace' K1PLX
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