PAARC Field Day Fun – June 27 to 28
The club Field Day location is closed to the public for now so members will be operating from home. The good news is that you can submit your field day contacts into the ARRL Web Application and have them accrue to our club. And you get 50 bonus points for using the online tool! The club name to enter on your ARRL entry form is Pottstown Area ARC.
View our Field Day Leaderboard
PAARC members who plan to participate in Field Day should be aware that the ARRL has temporarily updated the 2020 rules to accommodate hams operating from home: http://www.arrl.org/covid-19-and-arrl-field-day-2020.
1) For Field Day 2020 only, Class D stations may work all other Field Day stations, including other Class D stations, for points.
Field Day rule 4.6 defines Class D stations as “Home stations,” including stations operating from permanent or licensed station locations using commercial power. Class D stations ordinarily may only count contacts made with Class A, B, C, E, and F Field Day stations, but the temporary rule waiver for 2020 allows Class D stations to count contacts with other Class D stations for QSO credit.
2) In addition, for 2020 only, an aggregate club score will be published, which will be the sum of all individual entries indicating a specific club (similar to the aggregate score totals used in ARRL affiliated club competitions).
Ordinarily, club names are only published in the results for Class A and Class F entries, but the temporary rule waiver for 2020 allows participants from any Class to optionally include a single club name with their submitted results following Field Day.
See the ARRL Field Day FAQ: http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-contest-program-issues-field-day-2020-faq
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We will also be running the N3JFP Club Score Processor so you can see how the club is doing during the Field Day contest period. See http://paarc-contest.com/totals.html
For more information about ARRL Field Day visit: http://www.arrl.org/field-day
preparedness, and just plain on the air, outdoor fun in the midst of winter for American, Canadian and DX Amateurs. Don’t let those winter doldrums keep you locked up in the house…get out and play some radio. Winter Field Day runs for 24 hours during the last full weekend in January each year from 1900 UTC (2 pm EST) Saturday to 1900 UTC (2 pm EST) Sunday. For 2020, the dates are January 25th and 26th. Station set-up may commence no earlier than 1900 UTC (2 pm EST) on Friday before. The station setup may consume no more than 12 hours total. How & when you schedule/spend those 12 hours is up to you. Bands: All Amateur bands, HF, VHF, & UHF except 12, 17, 30 and 60 meters. Modes: Any mode that can faithfully transmit the exchange intact without conversion table… CW, SSB, AM, FM, DStar, C4FM, DMR, Packet, PSK, SSTV, RTTY, Olivia, Satellite, etc…(note FT8 2.0 cannot). The 3 categories of entry: Indoor, Outdoor, and Home. 