[SMCARA] Field Day June 28 - 29

Mon May 12 18:19:30 EDT 2008

Hi guys,

So far it is looking like I have a clear schedule for Field Day this
year so mark me down for bringing the RV.  I will also provide
wireless high speed Internet at the field day site.

Looking forward to it...

A.J. Farmer, AJ3U

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Eric Heard <n3uh at usa.com> wrote:
> St. Mary's County Amateur Radio Association presents:
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>  Field Day
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>  June 28 – 29, 2008
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>  Always the fourth full weekend in June
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>  CQ St. Mary's County Hams de N3UH
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>  This year the SMCARA will sponsor Field Day at the Hollywood VFD on Three Notch Road in Hollywood, Maryland.
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>  As your elected/drafted Field Day coordinator I need help in getting SMCARA on the air and making points for Field Day.
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>  BIG Tent: Garner --W3SI
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>  Recreational Vehicle: help needed
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>  Fooooooddddd: help needed
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>  Grill: Me --N3UH
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>  Needed Big Burly Ice Road Trucker dudes that can lift 3000 lb picnic tables to set up under the tent!
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>  Ladder Fire Truck for Antennae:Gene Talley N3NO
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>  Power Generator: The club has one somewhere .
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>  Radios:
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>  Laptops with logging programs
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>  Antennae:
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>  Listed below are the abreviated rules and needs for Field Day!!!!! See my notes.
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>  "2. Object: To work as many stations as possible on any and all amateur bands (excluding the 60, 30, 17, and 12-meter bands) and in doing so to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less than optimal conditions. A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness as well as to acquaint the general public with the capabilities of Amateur Radio."
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>  >>>The object here is to have fun and invite people and make contacts.
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>  "3. Date and Time Period: Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday and ending at 2100 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2008 will be held June 28-29, 2008."
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>  >>>>2 pm Saturday till we all get tired and that is usually before the end of the contest.
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>  "4.1. (Class A) Club / non-club portable: Club or a non-club group of three or more persons set up specifically for Field Day. Such stations must be located in places that are not regular station locations and must not use facilities installed for permanent station use, or use any structure installed permanently for Field Day. A single licensee or trustee for the entry is responsible for the group entry. All equipment (including antennas) must lie within a circle whose diameter does not exceed 300 meters (1000 feet). To be listed as Class A, all contacts must be made with transmitter(s) and receiver(s) operating independent of commercial power mains. Entrants whom for any reason operate a transmitter or receiver from a commercial main for one or more contacts will be listed separately as Class A-Commercial."
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>  >>>We will be class A. Transmitters?? Call Sign--Same as last year?
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>  4.1.1. Get-On-The-Air (GOTA) Station. Any Class A (or F) entry whose transmitter classification is two or more transmitters may also operate one additional station without changing its base entry category, known as the GET-ON-THE-AIR (GOTA) station. This GOTA station may operate on any Field Day band, HF or VHF, but is limited to one transmitted signal at any time."
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>  >>>>>Good way to get non hams on the air. There is a complicated point scheme in section 7.
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>  7. Scoring:
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>  "7.1. QSO Points 7.1.1. Phone contacts count one point each. 7.1.2. CW contacts count two points each. 7.1.3. Digital contacts count two points each
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>  7.2.3. If any or all contacts are made using an output power up to 150 Watts or less, the power multiplier is 2 (two)."
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>  >>>>This is the hard way to earn points. There will be a lot of QRM on FD on SSB, however, if die hard CW hams are willing to set up a CW only station in a trailer or something that nature let me know. A CW station will rack up points for the FD total. Likewise with a digital station. for racking up points.
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>  Easy points
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>  Look at all these easy points!!!!!
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>  "7.3.1. 100% Emergency Power: 100 points"
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>  >>>>>The club generator gives us these points. Who has the generator?
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>  "7.3.2. Media Publicity: 100 bonus points"
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>  >>>>>>>I need some one to be the Public Information Officer for this event. Get the word out, advertise, put signs up, contact the newspaper/radio etc...
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>  "7.3.3. Public Location: 100 bonus points"
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>  >>>>Fire Department location should take care of this.
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>  "7.3.4. Public Information Table: 100 bonus points "
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>  >>> Anyone???? Easy points here!
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>  "7.3.5. Message Origination to Section Manager: 100 bonus points"
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>  >>>Anyone????
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>  "7.3.7. Satellite QSO: 100 bonus points "
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>  >>>One day we will make contact with that darned Space Station! Anyone?
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>  "7.3.8. Alternate Power: 100 bonus points"
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>  >>>>Anyone have solar cells etc...
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>  "7.3.9. W1AW Bulletin: 100 bonus points"
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>  >>>Any takers? This should be an easy points.
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>  "7.3.10. Educational activity bonus: One (1) 100-point bonus"
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>  >>>>This is new this year and could be a topic of discussion at the next club meeting. This would be a good way to get youth into the hobby.
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>  "7.3.11. Site Visitation by an elected governmental official: One (1) 100-point bonus"
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>  >>>>>I will personally vote for Steny Hoyer this election year if he shows up this year at Field Day.
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>  "7.3.12. Site Visitation by a representative of an agency: One (1) 100-point bonus (American Red Cross, Salvation Army, local Emergency Management, law enforcement, etc) "
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>  >>>> Red Cross has shown up during previous years, any chance of that happening again this year?
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>  "7.3.13. GOTA Bonus."
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>  >>>Complicated see rules.
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>  "7.3.14. Web submission. A 50-point bonus"
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>  >>>Wow what an easy 50 points
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>  "7.3.15. Field Day Youth Participation. 7.3.15.1. A 20-point bonus (maximum of 100) may be earned by any Class A, C, D, E, or F group for each participant age 18 or younger at your Field Day operation that completes at least one QSO."
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>  >>>>> This is new this year. Any Boy Scouts? Girl Scouts? CAP? Youth? Your kids?
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>  Thanks for making it this far. There will be more to come. Feel free to email me if I omitted anything. Hope to see you there.
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>  73 N3UH
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