August2013 Field Day
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What?
An outing of the merry band of LHS amateur radio people, either licensed or otherwise.
This is an initial outing so we can familiarise ourselves with what's required to setup a /P radio station.
When?
2nd-4th August 2013 (Friday->Sunday).
Interesting events:
- 3rd August: 2m backpackers contest
- 4th August: 70cm lower power contest
Where?
Dominic has offered a field in Dorset, near Rampisham. This is *just* a field - but it is over the valley from the old Rampisham HF transmitting station, so is a good location to work from.
Who?
- tgreer - M6LRS
- Paul Lettington - M0PLL (not sure if I can be there for the whole weekend)
- Samuel - 2E0SKF
- Nigel Worsley
- Dominic Cleal - M0DLX
- Vic - M6BOK
- Jon Fautley - 2E0XEN
- Ian Henderson
Required Equipment (radio)
- A power source
- Batteries can sort of work, but we need to assume our operating location has no available power. Can we borrow a generator from someone?
- Apparently Aden and plett both have generators we can borrow.
- Batteries can sort of work, but we need to assume our operating location has no available power. Can we borrow a generator from someone?
Required Equipment (non-radio)
- Tent
- Sleeping equipment
- Folding tables/chairs
Available Equipment
We should make a list of what we need, and what we have available.
Dominic has available:
- IC-706, HF/2m radio, suitable for an HF contest or VHF low power contest
- Yaesu something, HF radio, suitable for an HF contest
- 2m lightweight beam (10-ele IIRC)
- 3.7kVA petrol generator
Wiggler has available:
- Icom IC-R2 Scanner
- 2x wouxun kg-uvd1p dual band radios
- Sky Scan Mobile Scanner Antenna
Filbert has available:
- Yaesu FT-857 w/digimode kit (to interface to a laptop, for data)
- BuddiPole portable HF antenna (dipole)
- This has a ~5m mast, which I plan on attaching the Arrow and the Buddipole to. There will be space for additional wires as well.
- Arrow II Satellite Antenna
- A couple of handhelds (including 70cm D*Star)
- MFJ 259b Antenna Analyser (this does HF to ~170Mhz)
Paul Lettington has available:
- Yeasu FT-450D HF/6m radio
- multiband 80m-6m wire dipole (will need a mast/tree to tie it to)
- A couple of handlelds (Icom T8E (6m/2m/70cm), Baofeng UV-3R (2m/70cm))
- Icom IC-R5 scanner
- a small petrol generator (need to collect it and make sure it still runs, might not be adequate for powering 100W HF stations)
- spare tents
- "the internet" (I might be able to borrow a 20Mb/s satellite link if it's not in use that weekend)
tgreer has:
- Yaesu FT-8100R 2m/70cm mobile
- Powermite PSU
- (loan of) Yaesu FT-817
- Wouxun UV6D
- 12m telescopic mast (need to get guy ropes for it)
The Space has:
- A bunch of Westflex 103 terminated with N connectors at each end
- A bunch of RG213, probably needs terminating
- A Diamond 2m/70cm co-linear antenna
- A half working 40m dipole w/balun
- Lots of wire for making "random wire" antennas
- A few handhelds