[K3PZN-List] Pre FD Meeting

[Curt Milton]

>From the BOD minutes:  

1.	Field Day – John K3KWO has volunteered to be the
Digital Station Captain. Pat N8PK has volunteered to
be a bonus point coordinator and GOTA station
 captain, as required. Bill N3WM and Steve N3SB will
set up the CW Pit. Andy WO3L  will chair a phone
station. There will be a meeting near the end of May
to
 plan the setup. There are still openings for the VHF
station captain, and the  food arrangements. 
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Excellent Progress!  

I suggest we consider moving the GOTA station to be a
second SSB station.  Potential GOTA operators can be
mainstreamed as participants on our main stations --
and this way we can keep all 5 rigs in action during
prime time!  

As I previously shared, given sunspot count, i believe
5 transmitters are optimal.  At nite these 5 rigs will
have to share antennas for 40, 80 and 160.  During the
day they will stay on 40, and relocate to 20m and
possibly higher.  

This means we need a few more effective antennas!  

160m -- one antenna -- use the longer Carolina windom

80m -- use the shorter Carolina windom.  perhaps it
can be used on 20m during the day?

20/15/10 -- tribander.  

I think this means we should consider 2 more antennas
for 40m, 2 more antennas for 20m -- and perhaps
another antenna for 80m

What I am thinking:

          day        nite
SSB1      20m        80m
SSB2      40m        40m
digital   20m        40/80m
CW1       40m        40/160m
CW2       20m        80m

(we should also consider that 10m might be open with
E-skip -- perhaps we should ID a second antenna that
can be used on 10m ?)

are we planning on VHF/UHF ?  if should weight 'cost'
in time vs benefit.  an open 6m band is fun, otherwise
i would rather see the ops on HF.  

I feel we need to reduce station captain operating
hours -- and literally invite all to participate! 
Recruit ... recruit!  (for the newer ops nothing beats
a personal invitation and a friendly trainer).  Our
biggest goal for FD should be to build the club, as
most of us organizers can operate rigs at home!  

Being less burdened, we (the most active ops) should
consider operating at more than one position!  

How do we make our site more 'visitor friendly'?  

We may wish to have a welcome station.  Maybe some
info on the hobby, and effort to get interested
visitors to a rig immediately.  

Food -- can we BBQ outside, or must we rely on
bringing in food ?  

Have we registered at the ARRL site ?  

What else can we do for publicity ?

At the end of the list, consider some demo modes for
visitors -- maybe SSTV or ??

For emergency power, instead of merely having it
present ... maybe we operate CW some on battery power?
 Or?  

Let me know how I can help further as I will try to
make the next FD organizational meeting.  

73, curt

--- John Hart <john_k3kwo at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> To all,
>  
> I will be out of town on May 31st.  Can we get
> together for the FD meeting on Saturday, May 24th
> instead?  If not what other days might be available?
>  
> John, K3KWO
>  
> 
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