[SADXA] Catalina Radio Club / Radio Society of Tucson Field Day PLAN B

[KE7DX]

Due to the Stage IV Emergency Area Fire Closure of Coronado National Forest,
effective June 9 to July 31, we will be unable to hold Field Day at our usual
Bear Wallow location in the Santa Catalina Mountains.

The CRC/RST Field Day Team have decided to hold a reduced-scope Field Day at Owen
Watson AK7AR's compound just west of Sahuarita. He has several stations and
antennas already operational in air-conditioned comfort, and exterior room for
plenty more. We will be operating in Class E (home station with emergency power),
allowing use of existing infrastructure as well as portable antennas with the
stations run on emergency (generator) power. We will have ~ 6 stations, including
Voice, CW, and a VHF/UHF station, set up and available for use.

We will not have a "GOTA" station, per se, however the public is welcome, and
unlicensed operators will be able to use ANY of the operating stations under the
watchful eye of a control operator. Youth activities will be scaled back, we plan
to have a telescope available for astronomical exploration during the evening and
night.

We will have several meals as previously advertised, with our signature Pot Luck
meal Saturday Evening, time ~ 7pm to account for evening cooling trends in weather.

Our intention is to take the lack of Mt Lemmon and make lemmonade out of it, have
a FINE time doing Field Day in the desert, and still placing FIRST in the FUN
category!

We, again, need to get an idea of participation so we can make plans for parking,
food, etc.  PLEASE take the time NOW to take our Field Day Participation Survey,
located at

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PLXHDLH

Communications for both the Preparation Weekend and Field Day weekend will be on
the following linked repeaters:

444.875+100 Keystone Peak
444.975+100 Mt Lemmon

Directions to Owen's Twelve Toes Compound will be available on the w7sa.org
website shortly.

Hope to see you there!

+Gary Keck, KE7DX
Arizona QSO Party Coordinator
Member, Catalina Radio Club, Radio Society of Tucson, Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
ARRL Life Member
SKCC # 5615