AARC Jr will set up its 100 watt Field Day operations (That's 100 watts per station, not 100 watts total) on the front lawn of the Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church at the corner of MD-2 and Birdsville Rd (aka MD-424).
We will operate 4-6 stations (100 watts each) as either 4A or 5A.
Each station will have access to at least two antennas (TBD):
Three 10-80m verticals with radials
two G5RV
two 40m/20m V-beams
160m dipole
10-40m wire beam
10-80m caged dipole
6m Yagi
2m Yagi
We will operate a LAN with UPS for our logging network. Some stations will be wired to the LAN and others via a wireless connection.
All of the stations will use Kenwood radios.
Station 1 - 40m SSB 100W (TS-570)
Station 2 - 20m SSB 100W (TS-450)
Station 3 - 160m/6m/2m 100W SSB 100W (TS-2000)
Station 4 - 10-80m CW 100W (TS-570) with straight keys and paddles and K5 keyer.
Station 5 - 10m/15m (Day)/80m (Nite) (TS-570)
Station 6 - 10-80m PSK31 (TS-870) (Tentative)
Our set-up plans are pretty flexible as is our operating schedule.
Friday (27 Jun)
Most everything we need for FD will be delivered to the site on Friday
We'll start setting up sometime Friday afternoon as follows:
1. Delivery of the porta-potty ceremony (the official start of FD set-up)
2. Raise two shelters (10x20 portable garages)
3. Place and start the generator for ventilation/cooling
4. Set up some tables
5. Assemble three antenna masts and then raise them according to the plan (TBD).
6. Assemble and raise three vertical antennas with radials.
7. Copy Field Day message later that night
Saturday (28 Jun)
1. Deliver the rest of the equipment
2. Set up stations (radios, power supplies and pwer strips, fans, laptops, lamps)
3. Lay out coax and power cords
4. Raise various wire antennas
5. Set up propaganda/information station/display
6. If time permits take a short nap or meditation
7. Have lunch
8. Start Field Day (Copy FD message if necessary)
Our goals:
1. Have a safe and fun Field Day experience
2. Make lots of contacts - do better than last year if propagation permits.
Our philosophy: Kids, new hams and non-ham visitors get priority operating privileges.
After things calm down on Saturday (early evening) we start having lots of fun.
At some point we'll do something about dinner (TBD).
Some of us will stay up all night making contacts. Some will not. Wimps!
Sunday (29 Jun)
1. Breakfast (Probably pancakes and scrambled eggs)
2. Continue making contacts
3. At 2:00pm stop operating, take a break, have lunch.
4. At 3:00pm start taking things down
5. At 4:30-5:00pm depart for home
6. Have dinner and go to bed early
Monday (30 Jun)
1. Unpack vehicles and put stuff away
2. Rest
Tuesday or Wednesday (1 or 2 Jul)
1. Prepare the FD report
2. Draft a story on our FD2008 experience
3. Make plans for FD 2009
More announcements to follow.
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