The Portable Operations Day Schedules

These "happenings" are just that "a happening that may or may not transpire due to the following occurrences; to windy, wet, cold, hot, oversleeping, conflict with the "significant others plans" or traffic. "

The normal time is anywhere from 1000 hours to 1300 hours.  In reality, it is from the time the first person gets there and lasts until everyone gets bored, the equipment breaks, the batteries run down, the conversation dies out or whatever excuse works the best for not wanting to be there.

Take your hand held with you and use the 147.150 K4BV repeater and call for "anyone at the portable site."  But don't be surprised if no one come back to you for the following  reasons; did not hear you for all the ambient  noises, battery ran down, turned it off for the  hard to hear stations on HF, operating CW, operating PSK, left it in the car as they did not have enough hands to carry everything or just plain ignoring your call.

Don't expect to find a bunch of antennas that are visible as most of the portable antennas are either dipoles, long wires or Buddipole's and very low visibility.  Most of the "/P" operatives are not "/M" equipped.