Saint Augustine Amateur Radio Society 2008 Field Day

June 28 -29, 2008

Faver-Dykes State Park

    The event will be held at Faver-Dykes State park and will include the availability of camping for those wishing to stay overnight as well as an opportunity to participate in some shared meals with club members, families and friends.

    The purpose of this event is to provide emergency communications practice for amateur radio operators and their equipment and to provide public exposure of amateur radio to the public at large.  We will be in a public place and should have some walk up interest in what we are doing.  We suggest that each of you also take the opportunity to invite people who may have an interest to stop by and see a demonstration of amateur radio in a relaxed operations environment.

We will actively participate as a class A club portable category:

     Club or non-club group of three or more persons set up specifically for Field Day.  Such stations must be located in places that are not regular station locations and must not use facilities installed for permanent stations use, or use any structure installed permanently for Field Day.  A single licensee or trustee for the entry is responsible for the group entry.  All equipment (including antennas) must lie within a circle whose diameter does not exceed 300 meters (1000 feet). To be listed as Class A, all contacts must be made with transmitter(s) and receiver(s) operating independent of commercial power mains.  Entrants whom for any reason operate a transmitter or receiver from a commercial main for one or more contacts will be listed separately as Class A-Commercial.

    We will set up a club station (N4AUG) and will be looking fro volunteer operators to work for periods of a couple of hours around the 24 hour clock.  A sign up sheet will be passed around at club meetings until the June event.  At many of our past events operators complain that they are not afforded adequate operations time to that everyone is cluttered around the radio at the same time and then no one is there.  This operating schedule should serve to allow adequate, uninterrupted operations for anyone wishing to participate.

    We also encourage individual club members to come and set up their own equipment and operate as a part of the club group at any time convenient to them throughout the field day exercise.  We hope to be represented in the area of: CW, Digital, Phone, QRP, VHF/UHF/HF

    We encourage you to share your area of special interest with those who have an interest in learning new operating modes.

     An example would be:  I would come and bring my own equipment and set up a station to run HF phone or QRP and make as many contacts as I can or want to make.  At the time I have signed up to work the club station I would leave my station and operate the club station for a couple of hours and then return to my individual station.

CLICK HERE FOR SAARS FIELD DAY 2008 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

     A complete 2008 field day packet can be downloaded at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/02/08/101/

Field Day Pavilion Site

Dock on Pellicer Creek at Field Day Site

Canoeing on Canoe Trail at Field Day Site