[HIham] FW: KARC FD

[Ron Hashiro]

Forward from Mike Burger, AH7R

I hope everyone is getting ready for field day.  Some of our club
should be out there right now hoisting many pounds of gear in and
out of trucks and staging equipment for the event.

Lots has been planned.  All that is left is for lots to show up.
Jan has done a great job of setting a new more educational tone
for this year with much more going on than just contesting.

At least seven mainland hams who happen to be vacationing on
Oahu that weekend have indicated the will try to come find us.

If you can't make it out, try to find us on VHF or HF.  You could help
from home by chatting with scouts working on merit badges, or work
KH6J for field day credit, or have some fun seeing who you can work on
VHF simplex.  Remember when the BIG ONE comes, cell phones and ham
repeaters will probably be among the causualties.

I hope to be on 146.58 FM and 146.200 SSB Simplex and we are supposed
to have a station listening on 146.52 as a talkin frequency.  We
should have a station checking into the Hawaii Afternoon Net so
Kevin can get any field day messages that might be inbound for him
on 40 meters.

Demos are planned all day, agencies will be represented, some info
and catalogs to hand out. We hope to check into a Skywarn net in
the afternoon which uses IRLP.  Even have some weather instruments.

Everyone is invited.  To my knowledge the only rule we have established
is simple.  If you work field day contacts from the site you need to
do so under our club call from one of our club stations, and we will
have a "frequency/mode" coordinator to help our three HF and one VHF
station stay off each other's toes.  People who operate our club station
should not contact the club station for field day credit.  That is an
ARRL rule.

Does anyone know of any other field day setups on Oahu?  I assume
our longtime friends "the other KARC" will be out in force, and the
Big Island always has at least one.

Oh yes, lots of food at noon.  Bring a potluck something or other
and show up for the eats and check things out around lunchtime at
least, on Saturday.

Cameras welcome.  There will be yet another Field Day pictures page.
I have a new tiny camera that is cute as a bug, but cranks out low
compression jpegs at a serious 1600x1200 and will load 121 of them
on one card!  In spite of literally being pocket size.  I may use it
as the TV camera for the ATV demos on Saturday.

Look at www.karc.us for the hotlink to Joe Speroni's detailed FD info
pages for KARC.