Outing:2012/07/07

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Outing (to be) held from 14:00 on 2012/07/07 - 14:00 on 2012/07/08 in/on location to be confirmed

 

This is the page for the 2012 VHF National Field Day.

Our application, specifying bands, callsign and location, has to be in by Friday 29th June.

Location

A location suggested by Chris G3WIE is a lay-by on Lanes End Down (Google Streetview), Ted G3XUX uses this location to run a 4m net on Sunday mornings and says it works well, unfortunately the site is unsuitable for any guyed mast.

Ted has suggested that we could approach 'The Milburys' (website) a pub near to the first site with a small field out of the back that is advertised as available for Club meetings and would work well for putting up the mast. There would also be a good nearby source of food and drink!

We will be sharing a site with Basingstoke ARC and operating under their name, but with our callsign (G3KMI/P) on 2m and 70cm. The site ha been reccied and is 'ideal' - great views to north-west through south-east.

Bands

We will be operating 2m and 70cm, maybe with Phil's rigs, or possibly using 2 borrowed FT-897s.

People

Please fill in below when you can come along to help! We will want to get there at about 1200 on Saturday to be ready for the start of the contest.

• Phil - All Weekend
• Chris O - All Weekend
• Henry - All Weekend
• Chris P = All Weekend
• Morse - Sat until 2/3am

Equipment

• 2x Mast - Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.

• Coax - Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.

• 2m 7ele yagi - Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.

• 70cm 17ele yagi - Phil / Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.

• 2m multimode + 100W amp - Phil

• 70cm multimode + 50W amp - Phil

• HF Rig + antenna - ????

• 30Ah of small batteries (chargeable off car) - Phil

• 3G dongle + laptop + router - Phil

• Stove + gas - Phil

• Food + water - ????