[SADXA] Catalina Radio Club/Radio Society of Tucson Twelve Toes Field Day Announcement

[KE7DX]

Thanks to the efforts of Owen, Ed, June, Steve*2, Randy, Rick, Don, and others,
significant progress was made for this coming weekend's Field Day exercise at
Twelve Toes. Having visited the site myself, I can say that the temperature cools
off nicely in the evening, great views of the desert in all directions. The
reddish orange moonrise over the eastern mountains was a nice surprise.

5 stations inside, 2 phone, 2 CW and the VHF/UHF station. One phone station in
Steve AK8E's trailer. A separate email will be sent to station captains to follow
up on final prep & operations. Astronomically speaking (read educational
activity), we'll have at least one telescope both Fri & Sat nights starting
around 8pm. The plan is to finish setup Friday, we still need over 200ft of coax
to optimize the antenna farm.

Rick is setting up a nice food prep area, and the front porch will have seating
for the first couple dozen visitors at meal time. Due to temperature
fluctuations, breakfast will be early, dinner will be late.

Visitors, please bring your own chairs, and flashlights or other lighting for
your own safety. It's pretty dark out there!

We can also use some flagging tape to ensure safety in an environment where
surface-mounted heavy metal guy anchors abound.

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

Directions to Twelve Toes available on the W7SA website:
http://w7sa.org/

Talk-In:  147.390 Mhz Simplex

Draft Schedule

Date Time (MST)
Activity
Leader

Fri, 06/24/11 AS SOON AS YOU CAN
Antenna Setup, Station Setup, Emergency Power Distribution Setup
Station Captains, Public Welcome!

Fri, 06/24/11 Evening
Functional operations check: Stations (RF), Computer connectivity, N1MM setup and
trial.
Station Captains, Public Welcome!

Fri, 06/24/11 7pm
Spaghetti Dinner
Rick Comins, W1GHF

Fri, 06/24/11 8pm
Astronomical Tour of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe
Steve Shemenski, AK8E, Public Welcome!

Sat, 06/25/11 6am
Breakfast
Rick Comins, W1GHF

Sat, 06/25/11 10:00 AM
Raytheon EMCOMM Exercise
Randy KD7KEQ

Sat, 06/25/11 11:00 AM
FIELD DAY OPERATION START

TBD Satellite Communication Demonstration
Larry Brown, W7LB

TBD SM Message & NTS Traffic
Mike AD7RZ, Adam KC7DVF

Sat, 06/25/11 3:00 PM
Natural Power Demonstration
Larry Brown, W7LB

Sat, 06/25/11 7:00 PM
CRC SIGNATURE POTLUCK DINNER (bring a side dish or dessert)
Rick Comins, W1GHF

Sun, 06/26/11 6am
Breakfast
Rick Comins, W1GHF

Sun, 06/26/11 11:00 AM
FIELD DAY OPERATION END
Public Welcome!

Hope to see you at Field Day!

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