TVARC members,

In case you haven’t heard, Field Day is THIS weekend.  We will be setting up in the Eisenhower Rec Center parking lot.

This update has two parts – the schedule for setting up and the schedule for operating.

Setting up will begin tomorrow (Friday) at 3:00.  The Sumter County Emergency Services trailer will be delivered around 3:00PM.

I will show up around 2:30PM to wait for the trailer AND to drop off antennas.  Anyone who is interested is welcome to join me to help put the antennas together.

These include a 3-element beam, a 2-element beam, a multiband trap vertical, a 6M beam and the driven element of a third beam.

Who knows, we might even mount the 6M beam and the 3-element beam on the tower of the trailer.

If things go smoothly (hah!), we might even start placing radios inside the trailer and getting them ready.

We will complete our setting up activities Saturday morning.  Start time will be around 8:00AM, but I will confirm in an email via the reflector tomorrow evening.

We have until 2:00PM to get everything ready to begin operating.

The Operating Schedule is attached.  There are PLENTY of spots available on CW, SSB and FT8.  Send me an email to request a time on any of those stations.

We will also have the GOTA (Get On The Air) station available throughout the weekend.

If you are a newly licensed ham, and would like to have a mentor walk you through making a few contacts, either send an email to me with a time request or just show up.  Someone will be there to help you.

Questions?

73,

George K2DM