Field Day 2000

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Getting the grounds ready for Field Day 2000

	Pictures by Bill James KG8IX
KG8IX Bill James		KG8IX Bill James
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N8YFW Tom Norris		N8YFW Tom Norris

Pictures by  Willa Steen KB8HEN

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Paul KC8EKA doing the most
important job out there
"Cooking"

XWARN Field Day report:

This was the largest and best Field Day XWARN has hosted in the last 10 years! It just keeps getting better! From the beginning, we had 2 real goals: Have fun and eat well. We did that in spades! Along the way we let the community know about all modes of amateur radio.

Call: WS8B 4A Ohio
Location: Greene County Fairgrounds
Number of people participating (including spouses/friends) : about 50
Transmitters in continuous operation 4 plus satellite station.

Points:
162 CW contacts X2(CW) X2 (power less than 150 watts) = 648
312 Phone contacts X2 (power less than 150 watts) = 624
4 transmitters = 400
100% emergency power: = 100
Media publicity (Channel 2 was fun, huh!) = 100
Location in public place (Fairgrounds) = 100
Information Booth = 100
Message to Section manager = 100
W1AW Field Day message copied = 100
Satellite QSO (We had 6 plus one dupe) = 100
Natural power (5 required QSOs, we had over a hundred) =100
Total 2472

Pretty cool for a club which was not even trying to collect points!

States: A bunch! Charlie would be glad to be recognized for snagging both Alaska and Hawaii. I know we had Puerto Rico and at least one European station.

Proofs of Bonus Points turned into the ARRL:

Emergency Power: For operations not conducted with Natural Power, all other power was from two gasoline powered generators operated in an alternating pattern every 6 hours.

Media Publicity: Great success! Attached is the press release we modeled from the one in the Field Day packet. Our local Dayton Channel 2 came out and filmed just as field day was starting. We were featured in the 6 PM and 11 PM news as “Practicing to get it right, so that any emergency could be met!” In the pictures, note the Channel 2 truck.

Location in a public place. We set up, as always, in the part of the Greene County Fairgrounds that borders Fairgrounds Road, a main road between Xenia Ohio and Beavercreek Ohio. A sign identified our encampment as the XWARN field day site (If the 30 foot crank up tower with tri-band beam didn’t get their attention beforehand!)

Information Booth: Among the pictures find one of N8OIE ready to pass out information displayed by N8ACU.

Message Origination: Attached is the serviced message.

Field Day message: Attached is the field day message as we copied it on Saturday Evening. We made a few corrections when we listened to the phone message, but it was very difficult to hear the phone message over QRM. CW worked much better.

Satellite: Attached is the dupe sheet for our Satellite contacts. We were able to make use of FO-20 and AO-10.

Natural Power: We used a small 5 watt solar panel, a 10 watt panel, and a wind generator (AIR 403) rated at 400 watts at 26 mph wind. It made sense that we would have either sun or wind as we were planning. All 7 satellite contacts were made exclusively from a battery charged only with the 5 watt solar panel. Our first 44 15M Phone contacts were made with Wind Generated Power as were 16 10 M phone and 46 of our 80 M contacts. 47 10 M contacts and 2 80M contacts were made with the battery charged solely by the 10 watt solar panel. Grand total of natural power contacts was 162.

 Report was compiled and submitted by Rick WS8G

Pictures by Rick Allnutt WS8G

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1 KC8EKA and WB8QZZ	2 Unpacking Antennas	3 First Storm on Saturday
4 KC8HRH Greg Lee	5 KA8OQF and WB8QZZ	6 KA8OQF Charlie
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7 Wind Generator	8 Ready to operate	9 N8VTV AB8U KC8NAR
10 News Van at 2 PM	11 KB1SF Satellite Contacts	12
13 N8ACU Packet Station	14 N8CI and Son Tommy	15 N8CI's Son Tommy
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16 N8CI and Son Tommy	17 KC8GZB Mike	18 KB8AY 10 Mtrs WA8YZQ The boy is Shane Gillespie who passed his test and will be receiving his Ham License shortly. He is the Grand Son of Mac WA8YZQ
19 KB8HEN, KB8HII, N8OIE	20 KA8OQF Charlie	21 KA8OQF Charlie
22 WS8B Frank	23 KC8EKA  KB8GUQ	24 Watching us on TV News
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25 N8TQK AB8U's Daughters Cori and Brittany	26 N8OIE	27 Greene Co. Fairgrounds
28 KB1SF	29 WD8OMX and children Daniel and Adrienne	30 KC8GLE Daughter Christina N8CI Daughter Angie
31 N8QNR Josie, Shawana	32 N8QNS WS8B KC8EKA	33 WD8OMX N8QNS N8QNR
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	34 WS8G W8CI

Club Members Harmonics
at Field Day 2000

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N8CI's Daughter Angie	KC8GLE Daughter Christina	WD8OMX's Son Daniel
AB8U and  KC8EXW's Girls Cori and Adrienne	N8CI's Son Tommy	WD8OMX's Daughter Adriennee

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