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.

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