It’s the FIELD DAY !
- Filed under: Ham Radio
- Date: Jun 28,2008
Ham Radio organisations world wide hold a contest every year called a field day. Essentially it’s a contest of which club can get the most contacts in a 24 hour period, using only TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS. In the case of my ham radio club, this means we will be setting up in a Park in St-Eustache and using electricity from generators. All the antenna’s and stations will be put up about an hour before the contest starts. Then the stations will be manned at all times for 24 hours. (I guess I will get a few hours sleep in my car!)
I will post pictures after !
If anyone wants to come, it’s from Saturday 10am until Sunday at 10am.
Here’s the link to the map of where we’ll be!
EDIT : It turns out the field day is only at the same time in the Canada and the US. Also, my ham radio club has changed in the sense that it only had 1 station, and we were setup inside the chalet of a park where we had access to electricity. It’s legal in the contest, it just means we get less points per contact. A video slideshow will be put online in the days that follow.
3 Responses for "It’s the FIELD DAY !"
Where are the pictures? Must see ham pictures! Lots and lots of ham!
Haha. Yeah the pictures will be put online this week. I was hoping to get pictures with me in them from other’s that took pic’s, but it’s taking them too long to send it so i’ll publish the video and pictures without me in them.
My official post about the fieldday can be found here :
http://www.techienation.com/ham-radio-field-day-2008/
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