THE SURREY AND LANGLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUBS FIELD DAY 2007
The Field Day site
Fred is calling CQ Field Day
John is calling CQ Field Day on CW
Anton and Kjeld are calling CQ Field Day
Surrey Club's members are calling CQ Field Day
Langley Club's members are calling CQ Field Day
Surrey Club's beam antenna
The two clubs' banners
Another Surrey Club's beam antenna
Mike is tracking the International Space Station with dual band antenna
Mike is setting up the APRS
The APRS setup
Members from Surrey Club
Solar panel is used by Langley Club
Close up of the penal
Langley Club's antenna array
Langley Club's members are preparing supper
Langley Club's members are serving supper
THE SURREY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB FIELD DAY 2006
By Fred Orsetti VE7IO
The Surrey ARC is a reuglar participant in Field Day and this year SARC was joined by the Langley ARC at Campbell Valley Regional Park to operate 3A. Many Langley ARC members were on site for the setup, the operation and the take down. The stations were operational for the full 24 hours thanks to the 14 operators from Surrey and Langley ARC's.
The weather could not have been better and even the mosquitoes took time off. The setup went smothly with all stations ready to operate at 1800z. Our three laptops running N3FJP Field Day Network logging performed flawlessly. The computers were networked using the wireless feature in the software which allowed for instantaneous dup checking.
In summary it was a great Field Day and the improved score reflects the teamwork of the Surrey and Langley club members. In addition to an improved score we were able to set up and operate our HF stations without the use of any commercial power. Field Day is a test of amateur radio operators to provide communications under emergency conditions. The objective was accomplished by the team of veteran Surrey and Langley operators supported by several who had been inactive for many years.
The Club's Field Day final score
More Field Day activities on ARRL web site
The Field Day site
The Club's banner
Four elements beam antenna
Three elements beam antenna
8-HP power generator
Phone communication set up
On site publicity stand
Phone operation
CW operation
Surrey City Councilor Marvin Hunt(right) visited the site and did some logging
Carol and Barry Girardi visited the site and showed us a QSL card album form his late father
Fred VE7IO at work
Supper time, served with Chinese food
Jason, the ham operator to be, VE7??
Snap shot of Fred
Logging program, written by N3FJP
CW operation set up with N3FJP's logging program
Group picture
Another group picture
The Club's Field Day final score
More Field Day activities on ARRL web site