Our Setup

Generally, all of our stations will be run by two people – one person making the contacts, and one to help them log those contacts. Feel free to listen in and take a turn running either position! Please let us know what interests you, both role and station type, and we’ll coordinate with you to get you on the air.

Stations

We will be running a class 2A Field Day setup: two transceivers running concurrently, in addition to the GOTA and VHF stations, deployed as a portable setup on battery, solar, or generator power (with no mains electricity).

Antennas

• Linked dipoles: Linked wire dipoles mounted on 60ft masts, for all bands between 80m and 6m. These are our primary antennas.

• Hexbeam: A directional antenna for 10m, 15m, and 20m, primarily attached to the HF Phone station. A good antenna to use during the day.

• VHF: Squalo antennas for 6m and 2m horizontally-polarized signals, and a vertical for 2m vertically-polarized signals.

• UHF: An 8-element Yagi for the 70cm band.

On-site communications

We’ll use 147.520 MHz FM simplex for local comms. Bring an HT and join in the local chat.