Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)

2008 Field Day

A lot of nice photographs from:
  Dick, W2YE.
  Kevin, W4KLS
  Gordon, NQ4K (High resolution images may be obtained from Gordon, NQ4K, at [email protected].)


Antenna rope hanging day. From left to right, Kevin, W4KLS; Jim, KF4PQL; Bill, WF1L; Jim, AF4MO; and Dick, W2YE.

Antenna rope hanging day. Kevin, W4KLS; Don, K7CS; and Ray, KD4RSL.

Ray, KD4RSL, taking picture.

Antenna rope hanging day. Don, K7CS, and Kevin, W4KSL.

Antenna rope hanging day. Dick, W2YE.

Antenna rope hanging day. "Bad-Eye" Russ, W3RST.

Antenna rope hanging day. Dead-Eye" Don, K7CS.

Antenna rope hanging day. "Bad-Eye" Russ, W3RST.

Antenna rope hanging day. Don, K7CS, thinking "the rabbit comes out of the hole goes around the tree, and back into the hole."

Antenna rope hanging day. Dick, W2YE.

Antenna rope hanging day. Bill, WF1L.

Antenna rope hanging day. From left, Don, K7CS; Dick, W2YE; Russ, W3RST; and Bill, WF1L.

Don, K7CS, grins with his success at shooting an antenna rope line over the light pole.

The light pole.

Dick, W2YE, guides the antenna hanging rope over the light pole.

Ray, , and Don, K7CS, discuss a finer point of taking the sinker off the fishing line.

Fist day of operations. J. Warren Geurin, Member, Loudoun County School Board, talks to Jim, KF4PQL.

Jim, AF4MO, operating SSB station.

Don, K7CS, operating CW station.

Russ, W3RST, operating SSB station.

Gordon, NQ4K, taking a picture of himself.

Club generator in operation.

Club generator in operation.

Visitor operating SSB station.

Jerry, K4INT, operating SSB station.

Dick, W2YE.

Russ, W3RST.

Bud, W4RSN.

Chuck, KI4IEO.

John, N3QT.

Chuck, KI4IEO.

Bud, W4RSN.

Visitor.

Visitor.

Dick, W2YE.

Russ, W3RST; John, N3QT, and Jim, KF4PQL, trying to fix a broken soldier joint on an antenna.

Visitor at VHF station.

Christy, a visitor.

Kevin, W4KLS; and Ray, KD4RSL.

The VHF radio tent.

The two HF radio tents. GOTA and SSB station in near tent. SSB/RTTY and CW in far tent.

The GOTA and SSB radio tent.

The generator

A view of the tents and antenna field.

Visitor operating the GOTA station.

Gordon, NQ4K, and Bud, W4KSN, start to set up a canopy.

Kevin, W4KLS, runs the fogger to scare away the insects.

The RTTY/SSB station.

The near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS) antenna for 10-20m. The first contact on this antenna was with Chile.

The VHF antenna. The white near the top of the antenna are two phased quads.

Ray, KD4RSL, at the VHF station.

Jim, KF4PQL, at the 10m station.

The "Olde Banner."

Ray, KD4RSL, and Jim, KF4PQL, in the VHF tent.

Bud, W4KSN and a visitor at the GOTA station.

Chuck, KI4IEO, working the SSB station.

Don, K7CS, at the CW station

Gordon, NQ4K, and Joe, WB2SAI, at the food station.

Chuck, KI4IEO; Bill,  WF1L; John, N3QT; and Don, K7CS; at the food station.

Dick, W2YE, working CW with Gordon's, NQ4K, mug in the foreground.

Night operations. The clouds are rolling in.

Night operations.

Night operations.

Don, K7CS, at the CW station at night.

The CW station.

Sunday morning and the field sprinklers come on.

Dick, W2YE, at the CW station.

Linda, K4LDT, at the GOTA station (on the left. Russ, W3RST, and a visitor at the SSB station (on the right).

Russ, W3RST, (on the left) at the RTTY.SSB station. Dick, W2YE, on CW.




A panorama of the field site. From the left, the VHF tent, the GOTA and SSB tent and the blue SSB/RTTY and CW tent. The blue things are blue plastic bags hanging from antenna stays or wires as a safety measure.




Made on 20 July 2008