Field Day Bulletin 4

Field Day Bulletin #4

June 9, 2010

Our Field Day Success is Up To You!!!

All,

For the last six months, your Field Day Team has been hard at work making the preparations for another successful NFARL Field Day. Field Day is less than three weeks away!! Now it is time for you, our club members, to step up to the plate and contribute to our success. We still need people to sign up to operate, on just about all stations. I sent our current operating schedule, as of today, to Bill Cobb this evening; it should be on the web soon. Please take a look at it and find your favorite operating time/band. Our two sideband stations are each operating two bands this year, one for day time and one for night time, so there should be plenty of contacts to work on each. 20m is also working 75m, and 40m will also work 15m. And for you CW aficionados, our CW station will be buzzing (or dih-dahing) again this year with much excitement. There are also excellent opportunities to work 6m, The Magic Band, at our VHF/UHF station.

If you are a new ham (licensed since June 28, 2009), you are also eligible for the GOTA (Get On The Air) station. Sign up to work that station for an hour or two and get hands-on HF experience with an experienced Elmer by your side. Then step over to one of the other stations and have a go at it with some of you club friends.

To operate any of the stations at Field Day, contact the station's captain. The list is on the Field Day page at http://www.nfarl.org.

We also have opportunities that don't involve getting on the air.

Shift captains are important for making sure generators stay fueled, questions get answered, stations get any assistance they may need, and generally being good stewards of the site and the event.
We need runners to take care of those off-site errands that may need running (fuel, ice, coffee, doughnuts, etc.)
Do you want to help get people to our site? How about volunteer as a talk-in operator? We'll run talk-in on 147.06 + (600k) with 100 Hz tone for a few hours Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
And we certainly can't forget bonus points. There are numerous opportunities to help the club by collecting the W1AW bulletin, handling NTS traffic, and other means. Get in touch with Clyde, KJ4MIJ (kj4mij at arrl dot net) to help out here.

And don't forget one of the most exciting parts of Field Day - the Saturday evening picnic. The club provides the hot dogs, burgers, barbecue, and drinks, but we rely on everyone else to bring the sides and desserts. We could also use people to help set up, tear down, and keep the unruly crowds ruly. Contact Lynn, KJ4DYH, at kj4dyh at nfarl dot org to help out with the picnic. You'll definitely be appreciated by all.

I laid out just a few of the ways you can help us have our most successful Field Day yet. The most important way you help, of course, is by coming to Field Day and bringing your friends, relatives, neighbors, kids, grandkids, coworkers, etc. How ever you choose to support Field Day 2010, please come out and be a part of this fantastic club event.

Thanks and 73,

Ian, AK4IK
2010 Field Day Chairman