June 22-23 @ Elmer Lange Park in Kochville Township
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The Amateur Radio Field Day is a time where Radio operators from all over North America (and some other countries too) set up portable radio stations and run them on emergency power. Then they try to talk to as many other radio stations as possible.
SVARA Field Day 2024
The weekend June 22 and 23 is ARRL Field Day. SVARA will be participating in field day again this year. We will be at Elmer Lange Park in Kochville Township, this is off Mackinaw road behind the fire station about a half mile north of Tittabawassee Road.
All are encouraged to come and participate. Station captains will be looking for loggers as well as operators. This is a fun event and a good time to get your feet wet operating HF. If you know someone that isn’t licensed and would like to give it a try please bring them out, no age limit. If you are a technician class licensee you can give HF a try. You can come out and see SSB, CW and Digital stations in action.
We will be starting setup about 9:00 AM Saturday morning and any help is welcome. Setup can give you a chance to learn about setting up a HF station and maybe give you some ideas about antennas that you can use on you own station.
Field Day operations officially start at 2:00 PM Saturday and run till 2:00 PM on Sunday. Bring your tent and stay if you would like. This is a great time to get those radio question answered or just have a nice eyeball QSO.
Sunday around Noon we will be taking down antennas and packing up gear and would appreciate any help with that if you can come out on Sunday.
I hope to see you all this weekend.
Station captains we will meet at the site on
Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and pick station placement. If there is
anything you need call me and I’ll see if I can help you out.
Don’t forget to download the newest N3FJP field day software. The FD
call will again be the club call K8DAC.
I hope to see everyone and hope that we all
have a great Field Day.
Ron KC8YVF and Dave W8DW
989-751-2693
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2024 Station
Captains (as of 6/21/24)
Dave W8DW - CW all bands
John
KB8PGW - CW all bands
Ron KC8YVF - SSB
Dave N4DBR - SSB
Tom N8EUI -
Digital PSK31
Fred KE8QCO - Digital FT8
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Field Day 2024 Log File
K8DAC's Contest Summary Report for ARRL-FD
Total Contacts = 783
Total Points = 1,402
Operating
Period: 2024/06/22 18:07 - 2024/06/23 16:13
Total op time
(breaks > 30 min deducted): 14:37:59
Total op time (breaks > 60
min deducted): 14:37:59
Avg Qs/Hr (breaks > 30 min deducted):
53.5
Total Contacts by Band and Mode:
Band CW Phone
Dig Total
%
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80
18 0
20 38
5
40 168
82 153
403 51
20
87 74
70 231
30
15 64
8 16
88 11
10
2 0
21 23
3
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Total
339 164 280
783 100
Total Contacts by Country:
Country
Total %
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USA
728 93
Canada
42 5
Puerto Rico
4 1
Argentina
2 0
Dominican
Republic 2 0
England
1 0
European
Russia 1
0
France
1 0
Hawaii
1 0
Total = 9
Total Contacts by Operator:
Operator
Total %
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KB8PGW
245 31
KE8QCO
238 30
W8DW/K8DO
98 13
N4DBR
96 12
KC8YVF/K8CQF 64
8
N8EUI
42 5
States Contacted to follow
Photos to follow
640 x 480 Video Size (458 MB)
Directions to Location:
Field Day is held at the Kochville Township Park. The park is
located off Kochville Roads between Mackinaw Rd and Center Roads.
The park is behind the Kochville Township offices and Fire
Department on the west side of the road.
