MARC Monthly Meeting - ARRL Field Day Planning #arrl

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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