Updated: July 6th, 2006

Click here for the Field Day 2006 Results

The year was 1956 and the newly formed Anoka County Radio Club was working their first Field Day.  The site consisted of three army tents along with several antennas and a tower for two meters.   The surrounding trees provided not only shade but a great place to support several antennas.  Members supplied three state-of-the-art Viking II transmitters along with three National NC 183D receivers. They worked on 80 through 40 and 15 meters and worked the new two-meter mode on a GE FM rig.

Click here to read Phil DeJarlais (W0JHS - SK) account on the first Field Day.

For the 50th year, the Anoka County Radio Club will be participating in the ARRL Field Day event. This year we continue the tradition along with two new partners: Anoka-ARES and the Minneapolis Radio Club.  

Like last year we will be setting up the Field Day Site at the Blaine City Hall at 10801 Town Square Dr, at the corner of 109th Street and Radisson Road in Blaine.

Field Day is open to all amateurs at any license class. We will be using the club's W0YFZ call with it's Extra class privileges.  So this is your change to work all the amateur HF bands no matter what your amateur license class is. The objective is to work as many stations as possible on any and all amateur bands (excluding the 60, 30, 17, and 12-meter bands) and in doing so to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less than optimal conditions. A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness as well as to acquaint the general public with the capabilities of Amateur Radio.

Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at Noon (1800 UTC) Saturday and ending at Noon (1800 UTC) Sunday. This years Field Day will be held June 24-25, 2006.

Site setup will start after 5pm on Friday in the south eastern parking lot at the Blaine City Hall.

We will again be running a 2A Field Day Site placed in a location that is not one of our regular station locations. We will be using the club's W0YFZ licensee for the our Field Day entry to the ARRL. All our equipment, including antennas, must lie within a circle of a diameter less than 1000 feet (300 meters). All our contacts must be made with transmitters and receivers operating independent of commercial power and use power less than 150 watts.

We may also setup one additional bones transmitter to operate exclusively on any bands or combination of bands above 50 MHz (VHF/UHF).

This years the Runkle Family (Dave - KC0KEP, Stacy - K0PWD and Karen - KC0WEM) will coordinating field day events.  We are still looking for more helpers to asst on setup and tear down operations. If you are interested please contact Dave or Stacy using any of the contacts listed below.

For a complete listing of rules please visit the ARRL web site at Field Day Rules.

Logging Software

Again like the past several years we will be using N3FJP's Field Day software.  Each of he stations will be networked via a wireless 802.11B/G network at the site.

We could not even hold a field day event without radio and support equipment.  The following is a list of all the known equipment that will be supplied during the event. If you can add any items to support the effort please contact Dave (KC0KEP) at any of the contacts listed below.

HF Station 1

(Click Pictures to see last Years Setup)

HF Station 2

Note: Remember that the HF Station 2 will not be on line at the start of Field Day 2006 since it will be working over at the Blaine's Blaz'n 4th Parade tell around 3-4pm.  For these 3-4 hours we might consider using QRP modes at the Field Day site.

Food

May of you have asked that we do some grilling on site this year along with a pot luck.  The following table is the list of food items and equipment that will be provided on site.  Please let Stacy (K0PWD) or Karen (KC0WEM) know if you plan to bring anything.

Field Day Schedule

Contact Information