Updated: 03/03/2010

For the 53rd  year, the Anoka County Radio Club will be participating in the ARRL Field Day event.  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 everyone. We will be using the club's W0YFZ call with it's Extra class privileges.  So this is a chance to talk on any of the amateur HF bands no matter what your amateur license class is, or even if you don't have a license. 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 year Field Day will be held June 27-28, 2009.

Site setup will start after 5:00 p.m. on Friday in the south eastern parking lot at the Blaine City Hall.

We are working on being a 2A Field Day site this year.  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).

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

Logging Software

We will be using N3FJP's Field Day software for logging our contacts.  All of our stations will be networked via a wireless 802.11B/G network at the site.

With the Field Day Network Log we can have a PC at each radio table updating the same log file simultaneously via our LAN.  If we running a GOTA station, this station CANNOT be part of the network.  We must add the totals from the GOTA station to our grand total at the end of the contest. The following are key features of the 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.

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 Parry Brown KC0TWB kc0twb@msn.com or Jeremy Amundson KD0BOC jamundson@q.com. 

HF Station 1

HF Station 2

VHF/UHF Station

Other Support Equipment

Food
Here is a list of food items that the club and members are planning to bring.  Also, please add your own item(s) to this list.  We will be having one of the cookouts at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. 

Field Day Schedule

Contact Information

Please contact Parry Brown KC0TWB kc0twb@msn.com or Jeremy Amundson KD0BOC jamundson@q.com for more information.