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MARC Monthly Meeting - ARRL Field Day Planning #arrl

5/6/2024

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The Maui Amateur Radio Club will meet both in-person at the MEMA EOC and via Zoom. 7pm May 8th.
This is the first in person meeting since the August fires.
The entrance to the EOC is via the door on the extreme left of the loading dock of the county building, 200 South High Street, Wailuku.

The link for the Zoom meeting is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84028901194...
Meeting ID: 840 2890 1194
Passcode: kh6rs

Field Day, June 21-23 rapidly approaching. This June is expected to be near the peak of sunspot cycle #25 and I hope we can have a FD big enough to take advantage of the great HF propagation we have been having this year.

For those new to the hobby, Field Day is the largest emergency communications exercise in the world. Clubs and individual hams set up portable stations and then test the effectiveness of their stations by trying to make as many contacts as possible in a 24-hour period. For us, the operating event starts at 8 am Saturday June 22. The club has an agreement with A&B Properties to use the Block House Field, just east of Hookipa Beach Park for the weekend. We have used this site since the early 1950’s. We setup antennas and stations starting at 6 am on Friday June 21, there will be time on Saturday afternoon and evening to operate informally. The official event starts Saturday morning and runs for 24 hours. Then take if all down on Sunday. For those new to the hobby or just interested in learning more about it, it is a chance to learn about antennas, radios and how to operate. You do not need a license to participate. There will always be a control operator to help introduce you to how it all works. At a minimum we will have 2 HF stations and a VHF/UHF station. We certainly have to ability and equipment to set up more stations if we can find enough volunteers to set up antennas and stations. We especially need experienced hams to act as mentors during the day.

If you are interested in participating in FD but can’t make this meeting, please send me an email and I’ll put you on the FD list. I expect we will have several weekend preparatory sessions to test antennas, configure radios and test configurations before the event.

73 es Aloha, Tom, NH6Y
Field Day Coordinator

Club meetings are held every second Wednesday at the Maui County Civil Defense Emergency Operating Center (EOC) Conference Room. The EOC is in the basement of the County Building. The County building is located on High Street in Wailuku. Just come around the back of the building from Kaohu Street. Directions can usually be received on 147.020 (+600-no tone). Meetings start at 7:00 P.M. and usually last about 2 hours. For directions go to http://www.kh6rs.com/events.html
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2020 KH6RS ARRL Field Day

7/4/2020

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Field Day 2020  
operators (10)  and site visitors (11)
 
Gerrard Cambra (1)
NH6Y     Tom
NH7O     Riley
WH6FAM   Trip
AH6VR     Bill
Brie and Elena (2)
WH6GJF   Jonas
KK6DWS   Rob
AH6SZ     Thatcher
  Patty and Lisa and their little dogs (2)
  Alex his friend and a YL with a baby (4)
  fisherman with his YL and a fresh catch in a bucket (2)
KH6PXM    Rob
KH6PO     Diane
KH6RSB    Shawn
 
 
THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!

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QST QST QST Calling all Maui Radio Amateurs

7/4/2020

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Calling all Maui Radio Amateurs

The next meeting of The Maui Amateur Radio Club will be held virtually via ZOOM video conference on 8 July at 7:00p. Please join us to discuss our recent KH6RS Club Field Day operation AND also to discuss your recent activities and experiments in wireless communication.
 
73   
-Trip    WH6FAM
 
 

Join Zoom Meeting     8July2020  7:00p

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4408713299?pwd=UHBjOXdUWFJjRFVIcnpqRDIxOVNudz09 

Meeting ID: 440 871 3299

Password: KH6RS
 
 
Congratulations! You've successfully submitted your Field Day entry, as well as uploaded all required documentation. 
A summary of your submission is provided below for your review.

Summary:

Entry received at: 2020-07-02 22:36:11

Call Used: KH6RS     GOTA Station Call: (NONE)     ARRL/RAC Section: PAC     Class: 1A

Participants: 12     Club/Group Name: Maui Amateur Radio Club

Power Source(s): Generator

Power Multiplier: 1X

Preliminary Total Score: 1,141

Bonus Points:
  100% emergency power                 100
  Public location                                 100
  W1AW Field Day message              100 - Documented by bulletin2020.txt
  Entry submitted via web                  50
Total bonus points                            350

Score Summary: (Cabrillo log/dupe sheet file: KH6RS2020FD.log)
                         CW  Digital  Phone  Total
   Total QSOs      0    241     309
 Total Points       0    482     309    791   Claimed Score = (QSO points x power mult) = 791

Submitted by: frederick hill III, WH6FAM   [email protected]

Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:
                     CW             Digital            Phone         
      160m                                       
       80m                        27    KW             
       40m                        98    KW           178    KW
       20m                      116    KW           131    KW
       15m                                       
       10m                                       
        6m                                       
        2m                                       
       222                                       
       432                                       
     Other                                       
 Satellite                                       
      GOTA                                       
     TOTAL     0          241          309  
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Maui News Write Up on Field Day 2018

6/25/2018

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A History of MARC Field Day Operations  #arrl #ARRLFD #Hamradio

12/19/2017

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A huge mahalo to a fellow club member Brett VR2BG (pictured above operating from the MARC Field Day location at Ho'okipa Point) for compiling and researching this history of Field Day results for the Maui Amateur Radio Club. Our club was established in 1936 and records indicate participation in the event dates back to 1939. See the attached document below for the complete list of results. 
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2016 Maui Amateur Radio Club ARRL Field Day eVent

6/25/2016

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2015 Maui Amateur Radio Club ARRL Field Day Event

6/27/2015

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Field day was a great success. Mayor Alan Arakawa visited on Saturday morning; about 40 members and guests signed in. We had some rain Friday morning but the rest of the time we had great trade wind weather. We haven’t gone thru the logs but we had more than 3300 QSO’s, despite the fact that 10m was only open very briefly. With the new antennas we were able to run both CW and SSB on 20m and 40m simultaneously with only a little interference. 15m was our best band during the day, we had about 1000 SSB QSO’s before the band closed about 9 pm or so on Saturday night but 20 remained open all night. More later after we go thru the logs. Mahalo to all who helped organize, setup, operate and clean up. 73 and Aloha, Tom Maui Amatuer Radio Club President
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De KH6RS - The Official Newsletter of Maui AMateur Radio Club Makes a come back

7/9/2014

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Check out the revival of the long lost De KH6RS Newsletter. This is a special issue to celebrate Field Day success. Enjoy!
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ARRL Field Day 2014 Club Report and REsults

7/3/2014

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We operated three stations on 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters as well as one GOTA (Get on the Air) station on 2 meters. We ran several modes including phone, CW, RTTY, as well as digital modes like PSK. To the knowledge of the club this is the first time we have run 3 stations. Propagation was fair thanks to a wonderful hula performance to kickoff the event by Club President Tom Worthington's wife Leslie. The hula was story of Maui coaxing the the sun to produce sun spots that promote radio propagation. 

We had about 25 operators and visitors throughout the 24 hour event. A highlight of the event was when a club member was able to make contact with NASA astronaut, Reid Wiseman KF5LKT, operating as NA1SS from the International Space Station. Although it was a short pass over Hawaii, she reported clear communication with the space station. By the end of the exercise Sunday morning we made a total 2391 QSOs and 3462 points.Both are higher than last year despite experiencing poorer solar conditions. 

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Maui News Covers Field Day Event

6/28/2014

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