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Updated: 06/02/2008
For the 51st year, the Anoka County Radio Club will be participating in the ARRL Field Day event. This year we continue the tradition along with Anoka-ARES. Click here for the Official Press Release on this event. 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, MN. 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.
Site setup will start after 5:00 p.m. on Friday in the south eastern parking lot at the Blaine City Hall. We will 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 license our Field Day entry to the ARRL. All our equipment, including antennas, must lie within a circle of less than 1000 feet (300 meters) a diameter. All our contacts must be made with transmitters and receivers operating independent of commercial power and use less than 150 watts of power. We may also setup one additional bare-bones transmitter to operate exclusively on any bands or combination of bands above 50 MHz (VHF/UHF).
This year Dave Runkle KC0KEP 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. For a complete listing of rules please visit the ARRL web site at Field Day Rules.
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Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at Noon
(1800 UTC) Saturday and ending at Noon (1800 UTC) Sunday. This year Field
Day will be held June 23-24, 2007.
Logging Software | Easy and intuitive to use! |
| Checks for duplicates and partial duplicates. |
| Lists all the sections and section color changes when it is worked. |
| Lists all contacts. |
| Provides many updated statistics during operation. |
| Displays a section map that changes color on map when a section is worked. |
| Writes ASCII log, dupe and summary files for log submission. |
| This program also provides easy merging and dupe checking of log files from other PCs. |
| Automatically backs up your log files. |
The software needs a minimum of a 166MHz Pentiums with 64 MEG of RAM for acceptable results. At this point all the the software, two laptops and network support will be provided by Dave - KC0KEP.
Equipment List
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
| Equipment | Provided By |
| FT-897D HF, VHF, UHF all mode transceiver | Dave (KC0KEP) and Stacy (K0PWD) |
| LDG AT-897 Automatic Antenna Tuner | Dave (KC0KEP) and Stacy (K0PWD) |
| 23A Switching Power Supply | Dave (KC0KEP) and Stacy (K0PWD) |
| External Speaker | Dave (KC0KEP) and Stacy (K0PWD) |
| 50' RG8 Coax cable for HF | Stacy (K0PWD) |
| Rohn 33' Tower with field base and support ropes | Dave (KC0KEP) and Stacy (K0PWD) |
| Rotator with cable, mast and rotator tower base | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| Three element 20 meter beam | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| Dell Pentium III Laptop with 802.11B Wifi and N3FJP FD Logging Software | Dave (KC0KEP) |
HF Station 2
| Equipment | Provided By |
| IC-706MKIIG HF, VHF, UHF all mode transceiver | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| LDG AT-11MP Automatic Antenna Tuner | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| 23A Switching Power Supply | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| MFJ Iambic Key | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| Kenwood Speaker | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| Ramsey Electronics Dual Head Phone Amp | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| 2 - Pair headphones | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| 50' RG8 Coax cable for HF | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| G5RV | Dave (W0DAH) |
| Dell Pentium III Laptop with 802.11B Wifi and N3FJP FD Logging Software | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| Travel Trailer 21' setup as a radio support shack | Dave (KC0KEP), Stacy (K0PWD) and Karen (KC0WEM) |
Other Support Equipment
| Equipment | Provided by |
| Generac 4000 Watt AC generator with power distribution cabling | Dave (KC0KEP), Stacy (K0PWD) and Karen (KC0WEM) |
| Generac 4000 Watt AC generator | Rob (KC0WEO) |
| 3000 Watt AC Generator with power distribution cabling | Perry (KC0TWB) |
| XP Dell Laptop with N3FJP software on board and network cable for server | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| D-Link wireless 802.11B/G Wifi router with high gain antenna | Dave (KC0KEP) |
| ACRC Rotator | ACRC |
| Packet radio station | Perry (KC0TWB) |
| QRP Station | Ross (W0FTX) |
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.
| Equipment | Provided By |
| Gas Grill | Dave (KC0KEP), Stacy (K0PWD) and Karen (KC0WEM) |
| 20 lb LP Tank | Dave (KC0KEP), Stacy (K0PWD) and Karen (KC0WEM) |
| Assorted cooking tools (comes with Trailer) | Dave (KC0KEP), Stacy (K0PWD) and Karen (KC0WEM) |
| Hot Dogs and Cheese Worst | ACRC |
| Hot Dog Buns | ACRC |
| Tomato, Cucumber and Red Onion Salad | Stacy (K0PWD) |
Field Day Schedule
Friday June 22rd, 5PM |
Field Day 2007 site setup begins. We will need to transport all the equipment from the various locations to the Blaine City Hall's south/east parking lot. By agreement we can not start setup until after 5pm so all the city workers can clear the area. Once all the equipment is on site we can start to setup the Field Day site. Last year we divide in to two teams. Each team worked on each of the key pieces at the site until all was made ready. |
| Saturday June 23rd, Noon | Field Day 2007 Operations Begin. Remember that the Blaine Blaz'n 4th parade is also going on at the same time. One of the HF rigs and support trailer and generator will not be on site until the parade is finished. This does not mean that other not involved with the parade should not start up at Noon! |
| Sunday June 24th, Noon | Field Day 2007 Operations End. Once the Field Day has been completed, the N3FJP software logs will be backed up several times and distributed to two other members for safe keeping. All the equipment will need to be taken down and made ready to transport back to their original locations. One last team needs to sweep the Field Day Site to make sure it is clean and all our stuff has been removed. |
Contact Information
Dave Runkle - KC0KEP
Anoka County Emergency Coordinator
Anoka County Radio Club Member
Home phone: 763-784-4384
email: drunkle@astrorat.com
For Packet BBS connect to KC0KEP-1 (using the maple site will help in some
locations)