Announce your Field Day operation here.

[N8CPA]

I've decided I'm still not in physical condition for a full-fledged, real FD. And I won't subject anyone else to physical rigors that I should be able to carry out myself. So I'll be QRV
as N8CPA 2D* OH for the third year in a row.

*CW and HF Packet/RTTY

[w4rot]

You will rock sir.
Setting up for 40m but the dogs keep draggin off the the feedline. Hope to do RTTY, slow on cw, but what the hey its field day. We will be NC4CA from the banks of Kerr Lake.
Work 'em man you will do fine.
Hope to get ye.
w4rot

[KG4YUV]

Greets-

The Dalton Amateur Radio Club of Dalton, GA will be W4DRC operating from old-timey Prater's Mill as usual. We will be somewhere between 2-4A, not including the GOTA station. We should be on 10-15-20-(?)40(?)-80 SSB and CW

At 5:55 EDT I will begin a presentation of operating OSCAR-50 (SO-50) to the other members of the club, and hopefully rack up the satellite multiplier for the club. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Looks like we have a great Field Day in store this year!

[K7FE]

Field Day 2004 will have two clubs operating jointly at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library using the special call sign "N6R" in honor of President and Mrs. Reagan. #Listen for the Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club, (CVARC) and Ventura County Amateur Radio Society, (VCARS), on all bands operating as 16A-SB. #I am a Field day Co-chair for VCARS. #The Presidential Library has sponsored us in past years and we thought the event would have to be held elsewhere this year because of President Reagan's death, but the Library staff said we could operate as scheduled. #Photo’s of previous Field Day’s at the Presidential Library may be found on the following site:

VCARS (http://www.vcars.org/fieldaypics/pics.html)

73,
Terry, K7FE

[w3bny]

NAS Patuxent River Air Museum will be operating under its new call sign K3NHK (3A MDC) all bands all modes.

Good luck!

[ai4ep]

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif ( lol ) are ya kidding ? These folks to actually participitate in FIELD DAY ? bah...but just wait till next week...there will be at LEAST 2 - 3 threads of folks " griping and bellyaching " about this & that !!

Almost 24 hours and less than one full page...aint no one gonna tell what kind of FIELD DAY ops they gonna be in... possibly just another average weekend !!

[k0ews]

My group will again be running 1A, CW only, from the Northern Black Hills of South Dakota. Listen for us; the call will be KØHP.

[N8CPA]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ai4ep @ June 23 2004,10:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif ( lol ) # are ya kidding ? #These folks to actually participitate in FIELD DAY ? #bah...but just wait till next week...there will be at LEAST 2 - 3 threads of folks &quot; griping and bellyaching &quot; about this &amp; that !!

Almost 24 hours and less than one full page...aint no one gonna tell what kind of FIELD DAY ops they gonna be in... possibly just another average weekend !![/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Some FD ops don't get put together until the last minute. There's still plenty of time until the event for sites, call signs, and operating position counts to be finalized. Less than a page thus far is by no means a disappointment.

As far as belly-achin', the only ache I have is that I'm not operating muiltiportable anymore, at least not this year. I just love the smell of generator exhaust in the morning. It smells like Field Day! I like getting up in the early light of Saturday morning and getting the coffee brewing on a campfire. When it reaches peak aroma, it's time to blow the boatswains pipe and announce, &quot;ALL HAMS ON DECK!&quot;

After breakfast, the towers go up for beams, lanyards are launched into tree tops for dipoles. One or more ops stand by to copy the Field Day message mid-morning. It's really quite exciting compared to operating from home.

I'll even have to QRT for while Saturday for a birthday party for my favorite no-coder, KC8DJO. If I act like it's not her birthday, it's only FD--Murphy hath no such fury to enact upon a FD site! It would not just be belly aching; she would make me sleep in conditions unlike anything ever invisioned in the FD rules. So for the sake of my own physical stability, and to preserve domestic tranquility, I shall be 2D.

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[kc2jga]

Jefferson County Radio Amateur Club (KC2ELX) should be operating NNY-3A. Technically, nobody should know what they will be. Isn't Field Day practice for emergency preparedness? Which in this instance, nobody knows how many radios will show up? Or if a generator comes in. Just my 2 cents.
73's and hope to hear you all on field day.
Mike KC2JGA
KC2ELX

[k7dlx]

WI7J and the Dixie Renegades will be on the air again this year - but from Long Beach, California.

John, K6MJB has graciously allowed us the use of his shack and antennas, and we will be running 3E LAX.

Jin, WI7J, his wife Marya, N7KEC, myself, and John will be joined by several other hams as we sign on Saturday morning at 11:00AM PDT.

This is the 12th year that Jim and I have operated FD together. It's my 19th FD overall, the last 17 consecutively.

See you out there!

(edited to turn off the #%$&amp;@ smileys)

Richard
K7DLX

[N8CPA]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (kc2jga @ June 23 2004,11:58)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Jefferson County Radio Amateur Club (KC2ELX) should be operating NNY-3A. Technically, nobody should know what they will be. Isn't Field Day practice for emergency preparedness? Which in this instance, nobody knows how many radios will show up? Or if a generator comes in. Just my 2 cents.
73's and hope to hear you all on field day.
Mike KC2JGA
KC2ELX[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
That's the general idea. But there are so many ways to participate.

I've always thought that it might be an interesting challenge to meet, if the site was kept secret until 24 hours or less in advance. Then do a SET type of announcement with a scenario on VHF/UHF simplex to get the local grapevine vibrating. Let the word pass along through all local modes, including landline, where to meet for set up, but no one tells in advance what they're bringing. It might even be interesting to DF into the site. After that, see what everybody brought, then set up accordingly.

That might limit some of the advance publicity aspects, but it would be a more accurate assessment of emergency prep.

[n5tjd]

I was wanting to participate in Field Day, but there are no local groups out here that will be assembling...

I will try to get on however at my home location. Since I will be using only one transceiver and using regular power, would my designation be 1D?

Next year, if nothing comes up, I will try to set up out in an actual field, by a pond so I can take a swim if I want.

[ab3ax]

Susquehanna Valley ARC (W3VPJ) will be holding our Field Day this year on a hill overlooking the Selinsgrove Center off route 522 in central PA. One worry is that the Center is a lunatic asylum. Should any of the inmates escape on Saturday night, will the right guys be locked up again?
#:-)

[K0RGR]

W0MXW, the Rochester Amateur Radio club will be operating class 3A from SE MN. K0RGR will be the GOTA station call for this effort.

[k0jjm]

We (K0JJM and KC0IUY) will be setting up in the country southwest of Topeka on 40 acres that I own. We are going to be operating out of my camper as a 2B (unless his wife joins us). We intend to operate on all bands from 70 cm to 160m. (We finally have enough room to stretch out a dipole for 80 and 160!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif Main antennas are a vertical (10-40), dipole (40-160), 13 element 2 meter beam on a 26 foot portable mast, and a 3 element handheld antenna (2m/70cm) to try and catch some satellites and maybe the ISS. We hope to operate all twenty four hours so look for us as K0JJM! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[N8CPA]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KD5WZB @ June 24 2004,13:04)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I was wanting to participate in Field Day, but there are no local groups out here that will be assembling...

I will try to get on however at my home location. Since I will be using only one transceiver and using regular power, would my designation be 1D?

Next year, if nothing comes up, I will try to set up out in an actual field, by a pond so I can take a swim if I want.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Yes, you will be 1D.

Some folks are computer gurus. Some hams are antenna gurus. I am a Field Day junkie, and I consider myself a Field Day guru. Here's how the rules break down categories of operation:

Class A is more than 2 licensees operating together under a single call sign away from home.

Class B is fewer than 3 operators sharing a call sign away from home.

Class C is any kind of mobile operation, car, boat, skateboard, dogsled, space shuttle, [fill in transport mode]. Most of these are cars, so numbers higher than 1C are rare. Thje highest I've ever contacted is 2C. I always thought it would be fun to charter a fishing boat for the weekend somewhere and set up a 5C just to see what kind of reaction it would get from stations contacted. It would, of course, be cost prohibitive.

Class D consists of stations using permanent Amateur Radio facilities powered by commercial grid juice--that cumbersome phrase is more accurate than &quot;home&quot; because it includes Amateur Radio club houses.

Class E takes is permanent stations powered by emergency supplies--i.e independent of commercial grids and lines.

Class F, the newest category, consists of stations located at official EOCs. Last year was the first year for this category so I've only worked one of those. I suspect there will be more of them this year.

It doesn't matter where you operate, FD is a lot of fun!

[KC2ESD]

I'll be operating from Southern Counties Amature Radio Association's Field Day site somewere in the woods outside Mays Landing New Jersey
We will be running as K2BR 3A SNJ (southern New Jersey). 73 de Rick KC2ESD, good luck everyone!

[ae4fa]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Should any of the inmates escape on Saturday night, will the right guys be locked up again?[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Let's see, there's a bunch of guys out in a field stringing antennas everywhere and operating radio equipment from battery power out in the bright sun and blistering heat interspersed with torrential downpours and lightening. #And then there are the &quot;lunatics&quot; . . .

Hmmm . . .

Not sure I could tell the difference!

It's gonna be FUN.