Sun Coast Amateur <br>Radio Club Society - blog:2023-06-30https://scarcs.ca/2026-05-07T17:21:25+00:00FeedCreator 1.8arrl_field_day_20232023-06-30T17:37:41+00:002023-06-30T17:37:41+00:002023-06-30T17:37:41+00:00https://scarcs.ca/blog/2023-06-30/arrl_field_day_2023Anonymous
<h1 class="sectionedit1" id="arrl_field_day_2023">ARRL Field Day 2023</h1>
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On Saturday June 24th, SCARCS participated in the annual ARRL Field Day. We set up at <a href="https://www.scrd.ca/maryanne-west-park/" class="urlextern" title="https://www.scrd.ca/maryanne-west-park/" rel="ugc nofollow">Maryanne West Park</a> in Elphinstone (Area E). VE7TBN planned the event and did all the leg work. Thanks to VE7TBN. Unfortunately, VE7TBN was unable to attend at the last minute. We missed you Neil.
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This was the first time the club has participated in Field Day since 2019.
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Participating this year: VE7RG, VE7TBP, VA7LSP, VA7SMI, VE7JGZ, VA7RJQ, VE7NZR, VA7ILO, VA7HMB, VE7RBE. Special guest appearance from VA7AGG! Great to see you Alan.
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VA7LSP was out Safety Officer.
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The crew arrived at around 09:30 and began set up. We used VA7RJQ's ZS6BKW antenna. We used VE7TBP's cannon to get the antenna quite high in the trees.
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VE7TBP put together a multiplexer and filters for 20/15/10m.
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We had VA7HMB, VA7RJQ,and VE7RBE's 7300s for radios.
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We had two solar panels in parallel and two batteries in parallel to run the radios.
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We had VA7SMI's Jackery panel and battery system for running laptops.
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As far as operating goes 10m was not active. We made a variety of contacts on 20 and 15m.
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We had a special visit from the Area E Director - Donna McMahon.
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It was a fun day. We had some people come and talk about radio with us and got a young person on the air.
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Thanks to everyone who participated and VE7TBN for planning.
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