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Summer Field Day 2022
June 25-26, 2022
This year's ARRL Field Day, will be on the fourth full weekend in June, June 25-26, 2022. Originally SCARC planned to hold the event at Oak Mountain State Park's Peavine Falls Pavillion.
In looking at the weather forecast, highs around 100 with a heat index of 108 are currently predicted. We've been advised that we should avoid outdoor activities in conditions such as these, especially with many of our members being of *ahem* advanced years.
Another factor that played into the decision is the remote location of the Peavine Falls site. Should a member or visitor need emergency medical assistance, the road to Peavine is very slow, and thus help will take a considerable amount of time to arrive.
With these considerations in mind, the Field Day planning group has decided to cancel the outdoor portion of the event. Instead, we are suggesting everyone participate operating from your cool, air-conditioned house. If you decide to, here are a few basic rules.
- When operating from home, do so under your own call sign. Do not use W4SHL.
- Home stations are class D. Thus if you operate alone you are class 1D, your section will still be AL (Alabama).
- If a friend comes over, but both of you use your station, you are still 1D.
- If your friend brings their own station, operates it at the same time you are using yours, and you both operate under the same callsign, you then become 2D.
- When you submit your logs, where it asks for the club name enter the following text exactly:
Shelby County Alabama Amateur Radio Club
- We need to include Alabama in the name to distinguish us from other Shelby County clubs throughout the US. When doing this, the ARRL will combine all of our individual scores as a club. Your scores will still be credited to you individually, but we also get to combine all of us for a club score.
- Please remember everyone in the ARRL Field Day event is limited to a max power of 100 watts. Sorry, you won't be able to use that spiffy 73 gigawatt amplifier.
- If you need software to log your Field Day scores, please contact me, your humble webmaster through the Contact Us form. I can provide you with the information for the software the club normally uses.
- Note that you will not need to send your log file to myself or Randy, our field day chairman. Just submit them to the ARRL and they will take care of combining the scores for us as a club.
If you feel a strong desire for an outdoor Field Day event, the BARC club will still be holding their event outside, as they have tents that will be equipped with air conditioning. More info can be found at http://widelink.com. (Note, as of the writing of this email the site hasn't been updated for 2022, but the location is the same as the 2021 event so you can use the information in it to get there.)
More information about Field Day, including complete operating rules, is available at http://www.arrl.org/field-day.
To keep up with the latest information on SCARC's Field Day, plus other SCARC events, please join our Slack group. It's free, you can use just a web browser, or there are apps available for every major platform of desktop and phone operating systems. You'll find the details at:
http://w4shl.com/slack.php(Did I mention Slack is free? So join up today! If you don't, the ends of your PL-259 connectors might fall off.)
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