Broken Arrow Amateur Radio Club

FIELD DAY-2014

CALL SIGN W5DRZ

Talk In Frequency: 146.910 with a pl 88.5

OBJECT OF FIELD DAY

To work as many stations as possible on any and all amateur bands (excluding the 60, 30, 17, and 12-meter bands) and in doing so to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less than optimal conditions. A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness as well as to acquaint the general public with the capabilities of Amateur Radio.

WHO IS WELCOMEStation Setup at the site is available only to BAARC

members in good standing.

All Club Members Are Welcome To Participate and Operate During Field Day.

Non members are welcome to visit and operate if scheduled or station space is available.

There should be availability to operate through the onsite BAARC member stations--- just ask.

Please Communicate with an officer of the club ahead of time and let them know that you are coming and how

you would like to participate

WHERE

The Garden House and the Field North of

Asbury Methodist Church

6767 Mingo Road

Field North of the Garden House

9836 E 66th

East On E. 66th St From Mingo Rd. to S 101st E AVE.

WHEN• Site Preparations Begin

Thursday June 26, 2014

• Setup Begins At 1:00 P.M. Local Time Friday June 27, 2014

W5DRZ Stations

• The Trustee is ultimately responsible for all transmissions from their station. When the station licensee designates others as control

operators, they should make a note in the log.

The W5DRZ Call Sign Carries No Band Privileges, The Control Operator Has The Privileges

Provided By His/Her License Class.

W5DRZ Stations

During Field Day, many amateurs often use a single call sign, so the station licensee must

designate a control operator(s) who is responsible for the operation of that station

when the licensee is not in direct control.

Both the station licensee and the control operator are equally responsible for all

transmissions (97.103(a) and (b)).

W5DRZ Stations

The FCC no longer requires you to carry a photocopy of your license whenever you are

the control operator of a station.

It is desireable though for you to have at least a wallet size copy of your license during the Broken Arrow Amateur Radio Club Field Day

Operations.

Q. The trustee of our club callsign is an Extra Class License Holder.

Does this mean our station can operate on any frequency?

What Operating Privileges Apply

What Operator Privileges ApplyA. No. Many people mistakenly believe that a club callsign automatically carry the operating

privileges of the callsign trustee. That is not true. A club callsign comes from a station license and carries no operating privileges. A station may

only operate according to the privileges of the Control Operator at the control point for that

station. Example, if a control operator is a General, the station may only operate using

General class privileges.

W5DRZ as Class “A” Field Day Event

• (Class A) Club / non-club portable: Club or a non-club group of three or more persons set up specifically for Field Day. Such

stations must be located in places that are not regular station locations and must not use facilities installed for permanent station use, or use any structure installed permanently for

Field Day. A single licensee or trustee for the entry is responsible for the group entry. All equipment (including

antennas) must lie within a circle whose diameter does not exceed 300 meters (1000 feet). To be listed as Class A, all

contacts must be made with transmitter(s) and receiver(s) operating independent of commercial power mains.

Class A RULE CHANGE

• There is one rule change from Field Day in 2013. Stations operating as Class A or B may begin setting up at 0000 UTC on Friday (which will be Thursday 8:00 PM EDT, 7:00 CDT, 6:00 MDT and 5:00 PDT). The groups may start and stop their set-up, resuming the set-up later, but, may spend only a maximum of 24 hours cumulative time for setting up their sites. This will not effect us as we will start setting up Friday afternoon after 1:00 pm.

• Site Preparations is not considered part of the Field Day Site and Station Setup.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS• Before Friday at 1:00 pm --- MOW the area

• After 1:00 pm Friday, June 27 – SET-UP Begins Antennas and Stations

• Meet 6:00 pm Friday at Garden House/order pizza• 12:00 pm Saturday … Operators meeting at Garden

House #transmitters+BANDS+MODES• 1:00 pm Saturday … Start Field Day operating!!

Schedule - Continued• 6:00 pm Saturday – Evening Meal, All members

and Guests Invited. Pay On Location.• Sunday morning 8:00 am Breakfast in the

Garden House provided by Russ Law and Dan Woods (Eggs, bacon, sausage, Cheese Grits!, toast)- Pay On Location

• Sunday 1:00 pm (24 hour continuous operations) CEASE OPERATIONS, and begin take down and CLEAN UP.

BANDS AND MODES

• All amateur bands except the 60, 30, 17, and 12-meter bands.

• Modes are Phone, CW and Digital ….. • All Digital is counted as one mode and only

one transmitter per mode-band applies

QSO(Contact) ExchangeA Typical Call Format would be as follows:

(You) “CQ Field Day” “CQ Field Day”, this is “W5DRZ” calling “CQ Field Day”.....

Station Responds: (Them)W5DRZ this is AB7RA, Please Copy, 6 Alpha,OR (They have 6 transmitters and they are in Oregon)

Your Response: “ I Copy 6A (alpha) OR, Please copy 5A (alpha)OK (Oklahoma) “Thanks for the contact.”

“CQ Field Day” CQ Field Day, de W5DRZ CQ Field Day”

The Key is To Stay At It..You will sound more experienced....You will log a lot more contacts!

Bonus Points

• Satellite QSO: 100 bonus points for successfully completing at least one QSO via an amateur radio satellite during the Field Day period. Plus we get the point for the QSO.

• Copy W1AW Bulletin• Send and Receive A Formal Message

Get-On-The-Air (GOTA) Station

• This station must use a different callsign from the primary Field Day station. The GOTA station must use the same callsign for the duration of the event regardless if operators change. The GOTA station uses the same exchange as its parent. 4.1.1.2. The GOTA station may be operated by any person licensed since the previous year’s Field Day, regardless of license class. It may also be operated by a generally inactive licensee. Non-licensed persons may participate under the direct supervision of an appropriate control operator. A list of operators and participants must be included on the required summary sheet to ARRL HQ.

Free VHF Station• All Class A entries may also operate one additional

transmitter if it operates exclusively on any band or combination of bands above 50 MHz (VHF/UHF) without changing its basic entry classification. This station does not qualify for a 100-point bonus as an additional transmitter. This station may be operated for the clubs Field Day period and all contacts count for QSO credit. It is operated using the primary callsign and exchange of the main Field Day group and is separate and distinct from the GOTA station.

OPERATING SCHEDULEBAND AND MODE

MULTIPLE TRANSCIEVERS and OPERATING STATIONS

• Unique Band and mode (CW, phone, Digital) NO PROBLEM …… “get after it”

• Same Band-mode ??? WILL TAKE COOPERATION AND COORDINATION BETWEEN OPERATORS!

• We need to know who is bringing what and what bands/modes you want to work

• if duplicates … we will try to coordinate a schedule where everyone gets to work a band/mode in at least 3 hour segments…. The Schedule is on the White Board in the Garden House.

Logging

• Log Call, Time, Frequency ,Mode, and full response exchange (#transmitters class ARRL section or DX)

• Use any logging program that will write or export a ADIF (.ADI) file and is setup for logging ARRL Field Day

• If you are going to coordinate operating a different transmitter on the same band/mode as another operator, Please have a logging program available that can import ADI files and merge with log already loaded. Both the old free HRD and N1MM programs work for this.

Misc

• A person may not contact for QSO credit any station from which they also participate

• A transmitter/receiver/transceiver used to contact one or more Field Day stations may not subsequently be used under any other callsign to participate in Field Day

• Phone, CW and Digital (non-CW) modes on a band are considered as separate bands

Misc ….. cont.• All voice contacts are equivalent.• All non-CW digital contacts are equivalent.• The use of more than one transmitter at the

same time on a single band/mode is prohibited, Exception: a dedicated GOTA station

• No repeater contacts are allowed for points.• Batteries may be charged while in use , the

batteries must be charged from a power source other than commercial power mains

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

• Remember field day is to operate, learn and have FUN!• Please, if someone comes by and wants to know about

HAM RADIO, talk to them and let them get on the AIR! If another operator wants to get on the air, please share your station. Also, if the logging software allows, please note the change of operator or 3rd party

• If possible, please show up to help setup and especially TAKE DOWN and CLEAN UP