August2013 Field Day

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.

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