W.E.A.R.C.
West Essex Amateur Radio Club, Essex Fells, NJ
an ARRL Special Service Club
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Field Day 2010
Field day is an annual Amateur Radio event for North American hams sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Field Day is an emergency communications exercise whereby hams are challenged to set up an emergency communications station, and talk to as many other participating hams as possible within a 24 hour period. The ARRL established a point system so hams can measure their success against other participating stations. In the literal definition, Field Day is not a contest (but don't tell that to the participants). Radio operations commence at 2pm Saturday, June 26th, and run continuously through to June 27th at 2pm, local time. From a participation stand-point, this is the largest organized on-air event of the year for North American hams.
The current plan for WEARC's field day operation this year is to be outdoors if the weather is good, and indoors if the weather is bad. The outdoor location will be in the vicinity of the Essex Fells Soccer Fields located at the end of Oak Lane off Runnymede Rd. The indoor location will be the 'club house', which is the Essex Fells Service Building located at the intersection of Oak Lane and Runnymede Rd.
We expect to be operating 1F. Antenna plans are to have an 80m dipole, a 40m delta loop, a 20-15-10m beam and a 6m beam.
As in years past, our Field Day operation will be a mixture of CW (Morse Code) and Fone (voice) based on operator preference. Our field day operation is open to all, and visitors are encouraged to stop by. We will likely start setting up equipment around 9am on June 26th.
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