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Field Day 2012 - More than just the usual contest.
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- Category: Field Day
- Published on Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:28
- Written by Jay (Rusty) Curry
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In case you haven't heard, the 2012 Field day contest has even more on the line than normal for the Twin Cities FM club.
After we won the Dakota division for 3A this last year, the Rochester Amateur Radio Club stepped up and challenged us to a head to head points contest this next year.
The TCFMC needs all of our club members to step up and take on this challenge. While it is early in the year, it really is time to start looking at what you need to do to get ready for the contest.
I've scheduled time off from work to get on the air, or at the very least help log or monitor how the station is doing, set things up, and help tear things down. We've got people working on improving our power situation over what we saw last year. We have models being put together of our antenna setup. But we still need more.
Oh, you may not have to jump up and volunteer today, but we've got a meeting coming up this next month, and it would be a good idea to let Bert Benjeminson know as soon as possible that you want to help out, and where. We know that we have some very strong CW people getting ready to jump in. But at the moment that's one station. I've already signed up to work the ssb station when I'm needed, and I'm pretty sure that Mike (k0bud) and others will be jumping in as well, but remember we've got 3 stations to keep on the air.
We've also got plans going to have demonstrations going for digital over hf using a couple of different modes, including weak signal, and RTTY. We may not be expecting a lot of contacts on weak signal, 20 per hour seems to be the very best you can get, but since every digital contact is already a point doubled contact, it sure doesn't hurt.
But it's fairly obvious that if you want to get a lot of digital contacts, beyond those we are going to get in CW, we'll need people to run a station doing RTTY. And perhaps some PSK, we'll have to see.
So, if you'd like to try your hand at some of this, or get on the air, log or even just help set up and tear down, we will need someone to work up a lunch after the on the air portion is done also, Bert would love t hear from you.
He's just as busy contesting as many of you are right now, but I know that he's happy to hear from all of you who are going to help out.
And I know that Mike (k0bud) will appreciate all the help you can provide.
Thank you.