[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-field-day-2026-results":3,"blog-post-more-field-day-2026-results":29},{"id":4,"title":5,"slug":6,"body":7,"excerpt":8,"status":9,"publishedAt":10,"authorId":11,"createdAt":12,"updatedAt":12,"author":13,"tags":17,"featuredImage":28},"9d62f0ae-5ad6-486f-b816-77487a88d2e2","Field Day 2026 Results","field-day-2026-results","\u003Cp>Thanks to everyone that came out to Field Day! Whether you helped set up, tear down, hopped on the radio for a bit, or even just came out to say \"hi\" we are very grateful you were there and we couldn't have done it without you!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This year we ended with 438 phone contacts and 339 digital contacts (which count as 2 points each). That gives us a score of 2,232 including the power multiplier. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>We also earned 1,185 bonus points, bringing us to a total preliminary score of 3,417!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>As some will tell you though, it's not all about the points as \"Field Day isn't a contest\". We had several new hams come out as well as some who weren't licensed yet and they got the chance to make a contact and learn more about ham radio. It was also great to see all of the club members who came out and to catch up with one another outside of our normal monthly meetings. We also got some good practice for fully deploying the trailer and all of its capabilities should we ever need to do so for a real emergency.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>From James, KB0NHX:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The club's first Field Day was in 2003 at the Nixa Community Center.  2003 & 2004 were held at the Nixa Community Center.  In 2005 we moved to Fountain Plaza where Field Day was a staple for many years.  Other locations for Field Day have included High Pointe Elementary, Espy Elementary and the Christian County property in Ozark near the theatre.  I could find no record of Field Day scores being reported to the ARRL for 2006, 2014, 2019 or 2022.  I remember us having a field day in 2006 but it was small and the score was not reported.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Some highlights include Alltel bringing out their 100' crank up tower trailer a couple of years for our HF beam antenna, us using the Department of Public Safety mobile command bus for several years.  One year we had emergency tactical vehicles from several SWAT teams at FD.  Convoy of Hope had their communications bus at FD for several years at Fountain Plaza.  One year we used the Missouri Highway Patrol DWI command post along with the Department of Public Safety mobile command post for our operations stations.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Since completing the club's mobile communications trailer in 2015, we have used it to house our Field Day stations.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>During those years, we've operated under the following callsigns:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>K0A         (1)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>K0NXA    (4)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>KC0LUN  (1)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>N0LU      (2)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>N0A        (5)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>N0C        (1)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>W0A       (6)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Here are our scores - our highest score reported was in 2024 at 6122:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2004 - 1484\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2005 - 2636\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2006 - NOT REPORTED\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2007 - 2390\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2008 - 3210\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2009 - 5872 (Fountain Plaza)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2010 - 5500\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2011 - 4792\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2012 - 3568\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2013 - 818\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2014 - \u003C/p>\u003Cp>2015 - 3542\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2016 - 1428\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2017 -\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2018 - 1698\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2019 - \u003C/p>\u003Cp>2020 - 688 (Only KQ0Q and K0LAF reported scores working FD from home on behalf of the club)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2021 - 1198\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2022 - \u003C/p>\u003Cp>2023 - 2094\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2024 - 6122 (High Pointe Elementary)\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2025 - 4036\u003C/p>\u003Cp>2026 - 3457\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Thanks to everyone that came out to Field Day! Whether you helped set up, tear down, hopped on the radio for a bit, or even just came out to say \"hi\" we are very grateful you were there and we couldn't have done it without you!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This year we ended with...","PUBLISHED","2026-06-30T18:12:42.356Z","d4bc135b-5f26-4924-9836-8d33168ced71","2026-06-30T18:12:42.357Z",{"id":11,"firstName":14,"lastName":15,"callsign":16},"Preston","Roesslet","KE0JGH",[18,23],{"postId":4,"tagId":19,"tag":20},"1a9fb608-0cbe-4959-8d50-4fc75ee31f61",{"id":19,"name":21,"slug":21,"createdAt":22},"events","2026-06-24T18:38:13.309Z",{"postId":4,"tagId":24,"tag":25},"8b42adaa-33e0-4ac2-b46e-c05ceb3b7296",{"id":24,"name":26,"slug":26,"createdAt":27},"field-day","2026-06-24T18:38:18.089Z","https://media.nixahams.net/blog/9d62f0ae-5ad6-486f-b816-77487a88d2e2/f52ee4d9-14a2-4478-a016-d66c73abcbdd.webp",[30,46,58],{"id":31,"title":32,"slug":33,"body":34,"excerpt":35,"status":9,"publishedAt":36,"authorId":11,"createdAt":37,"updatedAt":37,"author":38,"tags":39},"8e9a3723-1301-463b-9673-40f7a3720da2","147.015 Transmit Power Update","147015-transmit-power-update","\u003Cp>On a whim, James, KB0NHX, went to check the power output on the 147.015 several days ago because it seemed weaker than usual in some areas and found it was only transmitting 40-Watts out of the duplexer.   Previously, we drove the amplifier with 6.5 watts to get 225 Watts out.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Thanks to another local ham and group that will remain anonymous until we have permission to mention it, they have loaned us a 250w amplifier so that we can get back up to full power until we can resolve our amplifier issue.  We did crack open the amplifier and found one side of an inductor in the DC input charred and unsoldered from the board as well as the DC input to two of the transistors unsoldered from the circuit board.  We have got those repaired and hope to test tomorrow\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We are back up to 157-W out of the duplexer now, so about a 6 dB increase in output power.  The transmit side of the duplexer was spot-on, but we touched up the receive side to get another 8 dB of notch which may help weak signals access the repeater a little better.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Stay tuned for more updates - and feel free to post any improved signal levels at your QTH!\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>On a whim, James, KB0NHX, went to check the power output on the 147.015 several days ago because it seemed weaker than usual in some areas and found it was only transmitting 40-Watts out of the duplexer. Previously, we drove the amplifier with 6.5 watts to get 225 Watts out.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Thanks...","2026-07-31T03:30:16.848Z","2026-07-31T03:30:16.849Z",{"id":11,"firstName":14,"lastName":15,"callsign":16},[40],{"postId":31,"tagId":41,"tag":42},"e62fb9eb-ceb5-4474-9fc7-39d55cfe4e69",{"id":41,"name":43,"slug":44,"createdAt":45},"Repeater Updates","repeater-updates","2026-06-30T23:11:03.203Z",{"id":47,"title":48,"slug":49,"body":50,"excerpt":51,"status":9,"publishedAt":52,"authorId":11,"createdAt":53,"updatedAt":53,"author":54,"tags":55},"d0846d5d-0cbb-4264-b188-b975122e671c","APRS Digipeater Update","aprs-digipeater-update","\u003Cp>Clayton, KB0WZI, and James, KB0NHX, made a trip to the K0NXA Digi site in South Springfield last Friday and Clayton found a few things that we think have gotten us rolling!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>First, the receive audio is controlled by the volume pot on the radio.   It was turned down too low.  In order to adjust it, we enabled the ability to log into the WX 3-in-1 Plus 2.0 controller.   The GUI has a transmit and receive audio adjustment procedure so we went through that with a communications service monitor to ensure proper packet deviation.   Within minutes we were seeing many stations populate the log.   The GUI offers up many diagnostic and monitoring capabilities that we are going to look into making available for users and interested folks.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The site is also repeating local APRS packets by radio now as well and not just gating them to the Internet.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We also found that we were not authenticated with APRS-IS and were using the default server in Poland.  We changed it to the North American server and are now logged in and authenticated with APRS-IS and properly gating packets to the Internet - APRS.fi\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Some other housekeeping items, such as the proper symbol on the map, and other minor things were addressed.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>You can go to https://aprs.fi/info/a/K0NXA and see the plethora of stations now hearing us and also stations we are hearing.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Clayton, KB0WZI, and James, KB0NHX, made a trip to the K0NXA Digi site in South Springfield last Friday and Clayton found a few things that we think have gotten us rolling!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>First, the receive audio is controlled by the volume pot on the radio. It was turned down too low. In...","2026-07-31T03:28:15.500Z","2026-07-31T03:28:15.501Z",{"id":11,"firstName":14,"lastName":15,"callsign":16},[56],{"postId":47,"tagId":41,"tag":57},{"id":41,"name":43,"slug":44,"createdAt":45},{"id":59,"title":60,"slug":61,"body":62,"excerpt":63,"status":9,"publishedAt":64,"authorId":11,"createdAt":65,"updatedAt":65,"author":66,"tags":67},"be01a88e-4bfc-4a5c-b388-3516ea941755","Crane Repeater Update","crane-repeater-update","\u003Cp>We have been able to confirm the problem at Crane is water in the coax cable.   The good news is we have an abandoned run of  7/8” heliax running to the top of the tower.   We have received a quote of $500 for a climber to come to the site, switch the coax up top and install the new jumper to replace the crushed one that was also giving us problems with this site.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We are also re-building the 565502 All Star node and K0NXA-R EchoLink node that had failed thanks to a generous donation of a PI computer for the node!\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The repeater used to provide handheld coverage into South Springfield and in the recent years you have not been able to work it with a mobile in Nixa!   With the new Quantar already in place, we hope the repairs will make a huge improvement in SMLRS link audio quality as well as provide better mobile and portable coverage.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>We were going to use funds from last year’s hamfest to cover the repairs.   Unfortunately, we had to use all the proceeds to pay Hayden Towers for project a couple years ago that we had been disputing.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>That being said, we would greatly appreciate it if you could help get this repair completed with a tax deductible donation to the Nixa ARC, and you cannot do that online at https://nixahams.net/donate\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This is one of the worst antenna sweeps I have ever seen of a site with water in the coax, showing a dead short at the connector and the tell-tell wavy lines in the sweep.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Once we get the needed funds, we’ll get the tower climber scheduled ASAP.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I want to thank Jeff, W0AV, Kirwin, N0XLR, And Kent, N0IRM, for their help at the site.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>We have been able to confirm the problem at Crane is water in the coax cable. The good news is we have an abandoned run of 7/8” heliax running to the top of the tower. We have received a quote of $500 for a climber to come to the site,...","2026-07-31T03:23:09.153Z","2026-07-31T03:23:09.156Z",{"id":11,"firstName":14,"lastName":15,"callsign":16},[68],{"postId":59,"tagId":41,"tag":69},{"id":41,"name":43,"slug":44,"createdAt":45}]