ARRL Field Day - Ham Radio Contest, Outreach, or Fellowship Time?
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Timmy KB9SNL and Nathan KB9GMU take on the age old question of just WHAT ARRL Field Day, one of the biggest events in Amateur Radio in the US and Canada, actually IS. Is it one or the other? Is it something else entirely? Is it all of these things?
2024 ARRL Field Day Packet: www.arrl.org/f...
You guys rock! I’ve been the “VHF Guy” for our club for years. Back in the early 2000’s I would always bring gear for 6m, 2m, 222, & 432/440. I would always pick up a few contacts on the upper bands. However, after a few years the activity on the upper bands just disappeared so I quit bringing equipment. If 6 meters opens I will pick up tons of contacts there, but hardly ever hear anyone above that anymore. But! If you guys are going to start bringing gear, I will start bringing my stuff again 😊 I can swing 6m and 2m this year, but I don’t have any antennas ready for 222 and 432/440. But next year we should easily be able to work on all 4 bands. Maybe even 900 Mhz FM too 😊 It will be fun to work celebrities!! 73 Dan, K9ZF. VHF Guy for the Clark County Amateur Radio Club field day group, W9WWI. Right in the middle of good ol’ EM78.
We’re gonna have a decent beam up for 6m…I bet we can pull that off easy with you!
3OTD has never been the same since Justin left;)
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If only! 😂
@@3oldtechdudes Would be a fun extra intro. Nice to see a radio episode again, keep up the good work.
@pixeluser175 thanks! We are releasing episodes on ham radio every Tuesday going forward! Thanks for watching us!
It always amazes me how closely our two clubs mirror each other 🙂 When I was president, I kinda pushed to make field day a more serious event so we could hone our technical and emergency service skills. And, it took a lot of the fun out of the event! For the last few years we have backed off and made our moto "just have fun"! We may not score as many points, but everyone has a good time. QRZ field day, W9WWI, 3A IN.... K9ZF
It does seem like your all’s club is the most like ours, of all the nearby clubs!
It’s a ham culture thing. Been that way forever.
I want ice cream! 🙂
Last field day I went to I brought my two uncles to see If I could get them into ham radio. One of my uncles got some food and they told me this isnt a family gathering. It went downhill from there. There was no chance anyone would take off their headphones to talk about their equipment. Let alone let anyone use the equipment. We stood there and talk to each other for about 1hour then my uncles said to me if this ham radio is this I don't want anything to do with it. That was 6 years ago I never went to another one. What a disappointment. Young guys always get the short end of the stick in ham radio.
Excellent comment. I have witnessed this myself, and I think it's an unfortunate side-effect some groups of hams get into with Field Day...they want those "public event" bonus points, but then are unfriendly to or ignore visitors. In that case, I feel it should not be a contest at all, more of a "demonstration day". It seems to sometimes get very out of balance for too many hams. -Timmy KB9SNL
Tech-No,
That is sad to hear. FD is all about outreach.
Without question a thrown away opportunity for that club, for your uncles, and for you.