CQ Field Day, CQ Field Day

[Grizhicks]

All -- With the ARRLField Day less than 2 weeks away, I think it is time to post the known Field Day sites. I gathered these from the ARRL web site, but know there are others around. If you'll post your Field Day site, I will post them all together. Thanks, Greg, K9TLA

Auburn
1014 West 7th Street
Talk-In: 147.015
Contact: Jack Dold, 260-585-0408

Aurora
5950 Dutch Hollow Road
Talk-In: 147.285 or 443.875
Contact: Todd Schutter, 513-305-2980

Cicero
Redbridge Park, 1050 S. Pearl Street
Talk-In: 145.17 & 443.55
Contact: Joe March, 317-748-1926

Crown Point
Talk-In: 442.075, PL 131.8
Contact: Tom Ruggles, 219-796-9285

Ellettsville
Flatwoods Park
Talk-In: 146.64, PL 136.5
Contact: Robert Poortinga, 812-558-7070

Evansville
USI Grimes Haus; 37.959519, -87.669841
Talk-In: 146.790, PL 88.3
Contact: David Vogel, 812-430-5727

Fort Wayne
IUPU - Fort Wayne
Contact: Steve Nardin, 260-482-4039

Franklin
111 Hospital Road
Talk-In: 146.835
Contact: Steve Carmean, 317-889-1677

Georgetown
7477 State Route 64
Contact: Paul Kern, 502-489-1440

Goshen
2006 S. Main; 41.333722, -85.493666
Talk-In: 146.895
Contact: John Baer, 574-642-4707

Greencastle
1660 W 225 S
Talk-In: 442.225
Contact: Phil Dean, 317-945-2913

Greenfield
Hancock Co. 4-H Fairgrounds
Talk-In: 145.330
Contact: Grizhicks (post here)

Indianapolis
Marion County Fairgrounds

Jasper
Dubois County 4-H Fairgrounds Park
Talk-In: 147.195
Contact: Linus Mann, 812-482-7333

Kendallville
Bixler Lake, City Park and Campgrounds
Talk-In: 147.150
Contact: Timothy Ryman, 260-433-1640

Knox
Wythogan Park
Contact: Tony Langer, 574-896-3510

Kokomo
North Western School, 400 W 350N
Talk-In: 147.240, PL 88.5
Contact: John Fulton, 765-864-1504

Lafayette
Contact: George Bittles, 765-430-7336

LaPorte
US 35 & Shultz Road
Talk-In: 146.970, PL 131.8 or 146.610, PL 131.8
Contact: Ken Osborne, 219-879-8944

Logansport
1227 N SR 17
Talk-In: 147.180, PL 77.0
Contact: Tom Murray, 574-223-4496

Marion
135 North Branson Street
Talk-In: 146.790
Contact: Brian Shrader, 765-662-9171

Muncie
3501 N. Granville Ave
Talk-In: 441.825, PL 110.9
Contact: Joseph Krupa, 765-287-1761

Muncie
2400 E 700 S
Talk-In: 146.730
Contact: Jim McDonald, 765-730-4766

New Castle
Baker Park Large Shelter
Talk-In: 145.45, PL 131.8
Contact: Benjamin Burris, 765-524-3163

Princeton
North Embree Street
Talk-In: 145.410
Contact: Kent Winkler, 812-779-7151

Richmond
Court House Annex (EOC)
Contact: Dave Sloan, 765-935-9611

South Bend
3220 E. Jefferson Blvd
Talk-In: 147.225
Contact: Jack Styles, 574-993-9939

Spencer
McCormicks Creek State Park
Talk-In: 146.985, PL 136.5
Contact: Steven Brown, 317-513-5687

Winchester
Rt 27 & 500 S, behind cemetery at WZZY radio
Talk-In: 147.300, PL 110.9
Contact: Bryan Gordon, 765-312-2041

 

[westfork]

greg - thanks for the info. i've never participated in a field day and am interested in stopping by one local to me to check it out. is it kosher to just show up at one and poke around and see what's going on?

 

[Grizhicks]

Westfork & All -- Yes, most clubs welcome any and all visitors. If they have a visitors log, please sign it; the clubs get bonus points for visitors. Most places will have an info table, and lots will have a GOTA (Get On the Air) station. Visitors are welcome to try their hand at the GOTA station. Good luck and have fun, Greg

 

[Digital_photog]

Goshen Amateur Radio Club will begin setup at 10 am saturday. Location is on the Hospital property on the east side of SR 15 Just south of the College. We will be between the office buildings and the railroad. We will have a sign at the drive on SR 15. 3A with A GOTA and VHF station. We already have the location on APRS. you can see GARC FD at Google Maps APRS
I will have my cherry picker lift there with the VHF antennas on it. VHF station will be my IC-7000. We will also be programing weather radios for the public from 1-3 pm saturday afternoon.

Come out and watch, Make a few contacts on the GOTA station. See what ham radio is all about.

 

[Grizhicks]

Digital_photog -- Thanks for your post; was really hoping for more input, but take what we can get. I'll be working with the Hancock ARC at the 4H Fairgrounds in Greenfield. If you hear W9ATG, that will be us. Have fun!!! -- Greg, K9TLA

 

[Digital_photog]

Our call will be N9HZ and our GOTA call will be K9WJU. We looked at several places for this year. Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital really wanted us there and is giving us a lot of support.

 

[Falkin88]

Already on the list under Elletsville but some more info for those who are interested.

The Bloomington Amateur Radio club and Indiana University ARC will be hosting Field Day in Flatwoods Park Shelter 1, which is approximately 2 miles west of Elletsville on Flatwoods Road. Operations will start at 2:00pm local time Saturday and continue until 2:00 pm on Sunday. They are operating as class 2A. In addition to the 2 HF stations, there will be an HF GOTA (get on the air) station and a VHF station.

Also planned is VE testing at 10:00 am on Saturday and the Monroe County ARES-RACES group will be conducting emergency communications related-forums throughout the event.

Saturday
4:00 - 5:00 pm :: Build and Take a Dual-Band
2m/440 Collinear Antenna
WB9HXP Richard Landgrebe
7:00 - 8:00 pm :: Demo and Introduction to
D-Star Operations
KB9JHU Corey Shields,
KC9EVU AJ Ragusa, WB9TLH Dwight Hazen
Sunday
11:00-Noon :: ARES-RACES Emergency
Operations in Monroe County
KB9RVB Carl Zager

 

[Digital_photog]

Field day is here. GARC will begin setup about 10am this morning.
Weather radio programing 1-3pm this afternoon.
operating 2om today till 2 pm sunday.
Stop in and visit us or any of the other field day locations.

 

[Hammerhead]

I don't know if they were involved in this, but there was a hamfest going on out in front of Menards when I went by Saturday afternoon. Wife asked if I wanted to stop and I said that I would have liked to, but we didn't have time.

I hope it all went well.

 

[Digital_photog]

I thought we might get to see pictures of what some were doing for field day.
I guess I will start that off and see if we get others. Goshen Amateur Radio Club was set up on aIndiana University Health Goshen lot. Just south of Goshen College. With the railroad and powerlines we did have a fair ammount of noise. The walking/bike trail along the railroad did allow quite a few people to see what we were doing. Some did stop to watch and ask questions. Location wasn't perfect but from an emergency practice aspect it may have been good. Close to a hospital. We had figure out how to deal with noise issues. In an emergency you will have to deal with that you have and not pick an ideal situation.

Now pictures

My lift with VHF and GOTA antennas. 2 meter beam, 6 meter loop and the GOTA 10-80 windom was hung from the footstep the beam was at about 55 ft when the lift was extended.

I had help rolling out the cables. Nice to get the young ones involved.

Our HF CW operator.

Demo table with APRS, 2 meter talk-in and 20 meter QRP battery rig and Buddistick. Food tent behind the demo table.

Since we were running all of our 3A radios at the time I made 2 20 meter contacts with my call and !B IN

Our HF phone and CW operators had to suffer and sit in an airconditioned vehicle. So why did VHF, Digital and GOTA have to use cargo trailers and a canopy for shade?

closeup view of the VHF and GOTA antennas

80 meter buddistick for digital

GOTA station with VHF trailer behind.

6 meter CW

conference at the demo table

View of the site while standing at the digital station. l to r GOTA, VHF, HF cw and phone in county command vehicle.

digital buddipole antennas

digital

phone station

Sorry it took me several days to get this up. I came home very tired.