[PPRAANet] FieldDay - General Information

[Dan Scott]

Field Day 2005

Field Day is just around the corner.  This year the site is back to 
the beautiful Sourdough Recreation Area, a private retreat for 
current and retired employees of HP and Agilent.  If you have had 
the opportunity to visit Sourdough, you know what I'm talking about 
when I say this is a beautiful and premium location.

Field Day Dates and Times:
   Friday June 24th
        Noon - Start Setup
        Evening FOOD and camping if you wish
   Saturday June 25th
        Morning FOOD, final equipment check
        Noon, on-the-air with Field Day (24 hour operation)
        Noon FOOD
        Evening FOOD - PotLuck
   Sunday June 26th
        Morning FOOD
        Noon - Off-the-air
        Noon - Take down - go home

For those of you with GPS units and are wondering what else you can do
with the thing, we think we solved you problem.  We will provide an 
introduction to Geocaching, so bring that GPS and join the fun.

During field-day we need to have people 18 and under making contacts, 
we receive 20 additional points (up to 100 points total) for each youth
making at least one contact.  With that being said, please make sure 
you track food wrappers and pop-cans the youth may have in their 
possession  We want such items leaving someone's possession, it leaves into
a proper location.  Oh, that goes for adults too, or even us teens with 
40+ years experience.  If you see trash, even old partially buried 
trash, pick it up so we can leave the place nicer than how we found 
it... and it's emasculate now!

There should be a sign-up sheets in each of the station tents with Time, 
Operator, and Logger so you can sign up for an operating time slot in 
advance.  The station sign-up may also have a 4th field for Control 
Operator, so if you are so inclined and have an Advanced or Extra class 
ticket and willing to be control operator while us with a lessor class 
license are on-the-air, the extra bandwidth will be greatly appreciated.

For the person we contact during Field Day it's considerate to make quick, 
efficient exchange.  This is great practice for emergency communications, 
and the station on the "other end" will appreciate it too. 

The PPRAA web site has maps and other last minute information concerning 
field day.  I jotted down some instructions to the 
site and added some of that techno-nerd GPS information:

     Instructions based on leaving Woodland Park on Highway 67:
     RIGHT turn onto "Fairfield" directly across from "Shining 
          Mountain Gold Club".  This means that when you see the
          golf course on your left, be ready to turn right. 
          (GPS [dd mm.mmm]:  N39 01.301; W105 04.154)
     LEFT within 50 yards onto Sourdough (which quickly become 
          gravel), continue under the SOURDOUGH gateway arch
          SIGN-IN at Guard House 
            (GPS:  N39 01.800; W105 04.080)
            IMPORTANT:  Fill out the FIELD DAY sign-in sheet. 
                           Name, License Plate Number, 
                           Number of Adults, Number under 18
                           Call-Sign/visitor, Check all 
                           that apply: <MARC, PPRAA, ARRL, ARES, RACES>
                           Elected public office, what office?
                        (Fill in a entries for each amateur radio operator
                         in the car.  The additional operators in your
                         car would have a line with just: Name, Call-sign 
                         and radio organizations.)  
                        If done correctly we will know the number of 
                        operators, visitors, and such amazing facts which 
                        may even gain us a few points.)
     OPEN GATE, move forward, STOP
     SHUT GATE  <----<<< *** IMPORTANT ***
     CONTINUE following the left "fork in the road" 
           PAST "Skating Pond Road"
     STOP/PARK where the road turns to the right 
          (GPS: N39 01.935; W105 04.046)

TENTS:

    We have tents. Brian, KC0HEV, will be bring tents for Field Day. He has 
four tents for our use (HF-SSB, SAT, VHF, GOTA). He will bring them Friday
and we can set them up. He will show us how.  Please help with setup as Brian
may only have time to drop the tents off.

FOOD:

Meals:
 Friday:
    please bring you own, as people's arrival after work is
    to random to plan for.
 Saturday Meals
    Breakfast
    Lunch
    Dinner/supper - PotLuck
 Please RSVP to Susan if you think you MAY come to Field Day as this will 
    greatly assist food planning.  She would like to know which meals you 
    may be attending if you come.  Susan's email is:  sallison68 @ adelphia.net

PLEASE DONATE!
 We are hoping your donations will cover:
    Food
    Portable toilets
    Gas for the generators
 Hey, even if you can't come we'd be gratefull for your donations.

I hope to see you all there for a great Field Day.  If you are heading to "the Peak"
to help with the race, drop by when you are done.

I'm sure I will be sending up some updates, so stay tuned.

73,
Dan
kb0ppm