[TAC] Field Day planning

[Hank Kohl K8DD]

Ian Hill wrote:

>Well gang now that Dayton and Memorial Day weekend are all but over it's time to start with planning field day.
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Yes ....

>The location is already taken care of and K8DD can tell all of us more about it and I'll put up a map with directions on the website.
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North Lakeport.  This is not your casual laid back general 
purpose (or 2m club) Field Day, for the past many years that 
EMARC has been doing Field Day it has been a fairly serious 
experience, similar to that of a semi-intense operation. But 
we have fun too!  There is some food on the FD site, most is 
consumed across the street at the Tally Ho Saturday.  Sunday 
morning the Mobil station has hot coffee and a really good 
Krispy Kreme rack!  There is an abundance of pop and beer, 
but in the past no one has become overcome by either.  There 
is very limited camping - it's Field Day!

Option 1
Go to http://maps.google.com/  and put North Lakeport, MI in 
the search box and hit the UP arrow on the map one time. 
The park is the light gray area north of the dark gray area 
in the green Lakeport State Park.   Everyone knows how to 
get to Port Huron and go north past the Birchwood Mall on 
M-25, don't they?

Option 2
Imlay City to Tally Ho Inn1 ..... It uses M-25 through Fort 
Gratiot, north of Port Huron with all the VE3 shopping traffic

Option3
Imlay City to Tally Ho Inn2 ..... It avoids M-25, and all of 
the VE3 shopping traffic.

If the attachments don't come through, I'll get them to Ian 
and he can put them on the web.

>What class should we run this year is something to think about and after that's decided we can focus more on the logistics of supplies and manpower.
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2A + GOTA for sure
Last year the line-up was AC8W, K8DD, K8JM, K8MM (short 
time), K8MV, K8WMW, W8XI (absent this year) and over 1500 
QSO's - mostly all CW.
The EMARC president AA8HR usually makes a cameo appearance 
and gets on 40M SSB for an hour.  There are maybe a half 
dozen other ops who show up but wouldn't sit down and 
operate if you gave them $100 and a date with Cindy Crawford.
Five ops can do a 2A and GOTA (last year we had a couple of 
kids show up and operate on 40M SSB).

If we get enough ops - two or three more, we throw up 
another antenna in the trees, and put another radio on the air.

Last year the equipment was:
Laptops at each station running CT for Windows - frequency 
control and keying control and paddle plugged into the 
laptop's parallel port.
40M  IC-765    G5RV up about 60 ft in the center
20/80M  IC-765    TA-33 @ 40 ft and a G5RV @ 35 ft
We have had good luck with G5RV's and the 80M G5RV should be 
higher in a tree this year.
There is enough room to add another G5RV for another station.

>This message is meant to get the ball rolling. We can do a lot of our planning using email or even on the air if anyone can suggest a time and frequency to meet.
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>The next club meeting I have scheduled for the 14th of June. If anyone can think of a good reason not to have it then, let me know.
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I cannot think of a good reason not to!
We could do it at Calvellis ..... or we could do it here in 
suburban Lum .... and attempt to see if the tent that I have 
in the garage will be a serviceable tent for two stations.

73    Hank    K8DD

>Ian
>K8MM

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