Open Invitation

Field Day 2005 Open Invitation

The Ko’olau Amateur Radio Club of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, cordially invites everyone to join us at Kualoa Beach Park, June 25th, for this year’s Field Day. It promises to be not only a fun event, but also an informative one for the media, elected officials, and the general public, as we have some special things planned.

Kids are especially welcome! We’re pleased to say that the Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts have plans to be there to work on their pins & radio merit badges (click on the link & scroll down the page a bit!) http://www.alohacouncilbsa.org/ Castle High School’s “Castle Knight Talkers” Radio Club members may attend. We’ve invited scores of Govt. officials, and the media, too. Also this year, the OCDA, American Red Cross, National Weather Service’s SKYWARN, ARRL, RACES, ARES, REACT, and others will be joining us, providing invaluable emergency and disaster information. We all know how important Amateur Radio is to emergency communications and this is an excellent opportunity to showcase our partnership with these served agencies to the public, Govt. officials, and the media.

This year, KARC - operating as KH6J - will have 2 full-time HF stations, 1 VHF station and a “GOTA” or “Get on the Air” station. Operations must be coordinated with KARC, but licensed or not – anyone can operate, explore, and participate as much as they like. And, as an added bonus, Saturday there’ll be demonstrations for anyone interested that cover a wide range of topics and modes.

We’ll be there from about noon Thursday, June 23rd through about 10:00 am Sunday, June 26th. Station set-up begins Friday, 8 am; Field Day operations begin Saturday morning @ 8 am. Demos are on Saturday, starting at 9:00 am and will go until around lunchtime. Breakdown starts Sunday after 8 am.

Camping is possible on KARC’s permit – please contact us @ the email address or phone number below.

73 es Aloha,

Jan Mitchell, WH7Y
Publicity Chair
KARC Field Day 2005

Contact Information:

Walt Niemczura, AH6OZ
President, Ko’olau Amateur Radio Club
808-263-3872*
kh6j@karc.us (*email is best)

Date & Time:

8 am June 25 – 8 am June 26, 2005

Talk-in freq:

146.58 MHz (simplex) - monitor 146.52 MHz (simplex); possibly 146.88 (-) repeater

If you can’t make it this year, listen for KH6J, operating as “2A-Pacific” & give us a call!

Directions to location:

Kualoa Regional Beach Park
49-479 Kamehameha Highway (use 49-600 for mapquest)
Ka’a’awa, HI 96730

It is about 10 miles up the Windward Oahu coast, north of Kaneohe.

Once you reach the entrance to the park, the site is located beachside, about half way through the park, and is at the end of the "Group Event Area," which stops at a rest facility just as the C&C public campsites start. There is a little traffic circle in the road with one leg going off to the right to the park offices, one leg going straight and then a parking lot to the left. Park in this lot – we’ll be easy to spot from there – just look for the antennas & our new club banner.

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

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hope you can make it!