On this past chilly Saturday morning (11 Nov), several members of the CCARC descended upon Mallows Bay to operate a special event station
For those not familiar with the area, here is a Google Map showing the general location:
In attendance were: Bob (NW3M), Jeff (Kb3SPH), Pam (KB3SWS), Bill (W8BL), Michelle (N3YRZ), Charles (AA3WS) and Bob (KB3KOW).
After arriving on site, everyone started setting up their respective stations. While the weather for the day was supposed to be nice, it didn’t start out that way with clouds and slightly cooler than expected, however, within 2 hours, the sun was out in full force and made it a great day to operate.
We had 4 radios on the air at any given time across most of the bands with three of the stations running on solar supported systems.
Bill, W8BL 
Michelle, N3YRZ 
Bob, KB3KOW 
Jeff, KB3SPH
In addition to SSB operations, Bill (W8BL) also worked FT8 and made a number of contacts during the day.
Due to the location and lack of near-by shops, Charles (AA3WS) set up the Chuck Wagon Grill and Pam (KB3SWS) preparred the Buffett Line
Who needs Golden Corral?
We had several visitors during the day including members Joe (KB3HNP), Rob (N2OMC), Debbie (KV3VNF), Tom (W3TOM), Dale (N3ILH), Pat (KB3UYZ) and Angel (N4SNI) who also brought along his daughter and grandson, Sebastian, who joined Rob at one of the stations and worked to make a few contacts.
We started to shut down around 1600 with +/- 200 contacts in the logs.