I was better prepared for this year's Spalding & District Amateur Radio Society's (SDARS) annual Fun Field Day with a good selection of resonant antennas available to play with.

To the left of the photo is a home brew, half wave end fed trap vertical antenna for 20, 17 and 15 meters. This worked very well in the electrically quiet, countryside environment.
To the right of that is a support mast for the 80/40 meter trap dipole.
Another end fed half wave for 10 meters was available but there was no activity on 10 to be had that day.

Most of the contacts during the morning and early afternoon were on 15 meters which had good openings to Japan and Russia. My favourite qso was with FISTS JA National Club station, JL3YMV/3 FISTS NR 15000, operator Nao.

In the afternoon I went over to 40 meters for the FISTS Ladder and worked several FISTS members in the UK.

The antennas worked well needing minimal tuning and I ran 80 watts from my FT897 which was operating from a spare car battery. All contacts were with CW at about 18 - 20 wpm.

Lunch was the traditional BBQ with chief "chef" Ambrose on the tongs.

The wx was kind and it only started to rain just as we were packing up in the early evening. 

Another successful outing by the Club was enjoyed by all who attended and visited for for the fun.