2010

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of visiting a bunch of HAM radio operators participating in Field Day 2010. They were set up in a Snow Park warming cabin at about 5000′ attitude on Three Creeks Road approximately 11 miles out of Sisters, Oregon. 73′s KF7ETX / USNERDOC Find Me on APRS aprs.fi Sisters W7DUX Repeater www.w7dux.com Yaesu VX-8R www.yaesu.com Field Day Station Categories: (Class A) Club / non-club portable (Class B) One or two person portable (Class C) Mobile: Stations in vehicles capable of operating while in motion and normally operated in this manner (Class D) Home stations: Stations operating from licensed station locations using commercial power (Class E) Home stations – Emergency power (Class F) Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) From Wikipedia, “Each station will exchange information with other participating stations. For the North American Field Day, the exchange consists of the station call sign, the name of the ARRL-recognized section from which the station is operating, and a class designator which indicates the number of transmitters concurrently used at the station and information about the type of electrical power source being used.” Wikipedia — Field Day (amateur radio) en.wikipedia.org ARRL Field Day www.arrl.org ARRL 2010 Field Day Rules www.arrl.org ARRL Field Day Tips and Techniques That Everyone Can Use: 1) You will get many more stations in your log by calling CQ than by tuning the dial and answering CQs; however, if you’re calling CQ …

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