Lincoln County Amateur Radio Club
ARRL affiliated club in Oregon
A message from Joe NJ7OK:
This coming Saturday July 9 at 10 AM to noon we will be having a work party at Willies barn. We will be working on cleaning up the benches, sorting equipment, determining what to sell next time, preparing tower and antenna for the next event, etc. We will have some fun.
Field Day planning for the Lincoln County Amateur Radio Club has been rather ad hoc this year, with a major emergency exercise (Cascadia Rising) taking place less than two weeks prior. But, it’s happening!
Our location will be on NE Harney, across from the Lincoln County Commons (Fairgrounds), in the field north of the Animal Shelter. You can’t miss it.
Setup will be Friday afternoon, June 24. Field Day operations begin at 11:00 Saturday morning, June 25 and will continue into Sunday morning.
I’d like to have a Tuesday night planning meeting at 6pm every Tuesday (except for regular meeting nights) between now and through Cascadia Rising. I’m hoping this weekly update will help get folks prepared for the exercise, dial in our staffing and planning, and give us time to work through the forms to be transmitted. I know… yet another meeting, but I don’t know how else to share ideas and practice without something structured like this.
I’ll do my best to send out a reminder 24 hours before and maybe 8 hours before each week so it is fresh in everyone’s mind. The 8 hours before reminder should have some agenda type information so you know what we’ll be discussing and working on.
Yes… It is a different meeting number than the regular meetings, I’ll send it out with every single email reminder to it should be easy to open the email reminder and select the link.
Tuesday May 3 – 6pm-7pm – Cascadia Rising Planning – still refining scheduling, assignments. Working towards one location to go to retrieve all the documents when we get closer so you can download the stuff you need prior to the event. (and we’ll take some feedback and ideas on the previous weekend’s events, what worked and what didn’t, how we could make it work better, etc.)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89351387703?pwd=Q1dFLzVKbGdRK2ZuWGtsU3JXdElmZz09
Meeting ID: 893 5138 7703
Passcode: 383741
Phone in: +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
Some New Rules Going into Effect in 2022 for ARRL Field Day
Starting this year, the maximum PEP output for a transmitter used by anyone submitting a Field Day log will be 100 W. The power multiplier of 2 will remain in place, and the high-power category will be removed from the rules. Until this year, the maximum low-power limit had been 150 W for most ARRL-sponsored operating events. The power multiplier will remain at 5 for QRP participants running a maximum of 5 W or less. As previously announced, 100 W is now the low-power category limit for all ARRL and IARU HF Contests, effective January 1, 2022.
ARRL.org
A couple of changes instituted initially as accommodations for the COVID-19 pandemic will remain. Class D (Home) stations will continue to be able to earn points for contacts with other Class D stations. The club aggregate scoring change initiated in 2020 as a temporary measure will become part of the permanent rules. In the aggregate scoring plan, the scores of individual stations are combined under the score of a single club.
ARRL.org
Folks, Winter Field Day is just around the corner. www.winterfieldday.com has all the information, we’ll be doing what we can setting up a bit Friday evening the 28th at the Fairgrounds. We should have at least two HF setups, several different HF antennas, the communications trailer and a couple of us are camping out for the event.
You may have some memory of last year’s Winter Field Day, we landed a vacation rental, brought way too much stuff, and I cooked way too much food. While it was a great time, it takes a fair amount of time and effort to plan and put that together. This year it won’t be that deluxe, but it will still be functional.
For me, I plan on setting up the buddiepole portable HF antenna, so if anyone wants to learn about that, try adjusting and tuning, etc. this should be a good time for that. We’ll have a dipole of some type up for the HF rig in the trailer, and another one of my projects is a trapped fan dipole that I need to raise up to 30’ or so, make some measurements, lower it down and adjust wire lengths, then repeater over and over until I get it tuned. I plan on spending a fair amount of time working on some projects in the trailer, perhaps doing some firmware upgrades on some of the upcoming AREDN hardware hoping to appear on Otter Crest, etc. I’ll bring some portable satellite setup since there is a good bonus if we can make a satellite contact.
My goal is provide a platform for those who wish to come out and participate, while trying to get some of the many ham radio projects complete. What gets done and how much depends a lot on the weather, it will likely be raining off and on which makes some of the projects and working outside a bit more challenging. As Matthew and I proved last year, there will be a fire to sit around in the evening regardless of the weather.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending and participating, and roughly when that would be so we can plan a bit. I’ll have more details out but I expect to be onsite around 4pm on Friday afternoon, setting up a bit, and then decamping around noon or so on Sunday.
I’ve not planned meals or anything fancy (though I do intend to eat), I am willing to do something Saturday evening for food if we have a small group and interest. We may be testing out some of the food delivery options in Newport or simply making a food run sometimes rather than cooking on site.
As it was last year, you can participate at home with your callsign and if we submit records for all that marked Lincoln County ACS we get the credit for it. ACS and the Club are working together to provide this opportunity for everyone interested.
More to come!
73
Daron N7HQR