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PCARS aka Melbourne Ham Fest Fellow Hams, Last year, thanks to great people like you, we had a very successful hamfest with over 1500 paid attendees. The outside tailgate area, inside swap tables, and booths all sold out. This year we expect to have another great hamfest and we hope to see you there. See the attached flyer for more info. 43rd Melbourne Hamfest and 2008 ARRL Florida State Convention Mark your calendar: 11-12 October Website is being updated often. Hotel info is current. Go to: www.pcars.org – click hamfest link Email: hamfest2008@pcars.org Thanks, and please share this information with your friends and fellow club members. Jan Heise K4QD, Chairman, Melbourne Hamfest and ARRL FL State Convention 08.18.2008 Clyde Mashburn
Hello, DB-CERT / DBARA Field Day Slide Show assembled and presented by Dave Calder N4ZKF 07.04.2008 More FD 2008 Feedback by Paul Milward, AB4PM
Over 25 Hams from
DBARA/DB-CERT operated FD from the Daytona Beach (FL) EOC.
We operated 2 Rigs (2F NFL / KI4LBF) plus a GOTA Station.
The Phone/CW rig utilized the permanently installed
multi-band sloping dipole. We made over 275 contacts (100+
CW / 150+ phone).
The 2nd rig, with a
Buddiepole tuned for 20m & 40m in the horizontal (bands were
changed at dusk & dawn), was used exclusively for psk31. We
made over 110 contacts, woo hoo! The Buddiepole performed
flawlessly, furthest station was in
The GOTA rig was used
exclusively on 10m. We had 3 <12YO kids operating and made
about 10 contacts on Saturday before the band went out. A
dedicated Buddipole in horizontal position was used.
Sunday morning one of the OP’s
11 YO daughter wanted to try her hand at 10m. So we fired up
the rig and heard only a few weak stations. I suggested that
we re-orient the 10m dipole to vertical orientation. So 2 of
us climbed to the roof and re-oriented the Buddiepole.
The Buddiepole was oriented
red side up and vertical, black side down about 30 degrees
from vertical. We climbed down and fired up the rig. Wow 2
to 3 S units better signals. The young lady happily
completed about 20 calls over the next 3 hours.
Both Buddiepoles were placed
on the flat rooftop of the single story portion of the
Police Station Building. They were each guyed at 3 points
with long buddieMasts extended about 14 feet. Coil
adjustment of the 20/40M Buddiepole was accomplished in
about 10 minutes each time. Re orientation of the 10m
Buddiepole also was accomplished in less that 10 minutes.
Both Buddiepoles weather a severe thunderstorm with 30-40mph
winds on Saturday afternoon. We just took a quick visual
after the storm passed, performed a SWR check with the
antenna analyzer and went right back operating.
All of us enjoyed FD. We look
forward to another joint FD OP next year at the DBPD EOC. It
should be really fun. The new Station House will open in
November 2008. Listen for KI4LBF on FD 2009.
73 de
Paul AB4PM
DB-CERT & DBARA FD
OK Folks…..
Here it is –
the “official” results of the DB CERT ARC/DBARA F2008 Field
Day Event!
This is a copy
of the submission I just sent to the ARRL electronically.
Enjoy……and
thanks to all that participated, helped out, or just plain
showed up!
Steve WB4OMM
ARRL Field Day Entry Form Datestamp: 2008-06-30 19:38:52 PDT Confirmation: 158b0b7ab8959d55 Call Used: KI4LBF GOTA Station
Call: KI4VWP ARRL/RAC Section: NFL Class: 2F Participants: 26 Club/Group
Name: Daytona Beach CERT Amateur Radio Club Power Source(s): Generator Power Multiplier: 2X Bonus Points: 100% Emergency
power 200 Media
Publicity 100 Set-up in Public
Place 100 Information
Booth 100 NTS message to ARRL
SM/SEC 100 W1AW Field Day
Message 100 Formal NTS messages handled -
No.=1 10 Site Visit by invited served
agency official 100 Youth
participation 40 Youth operators=2 Youth participants= GOTA
Bonus 40 Submitted via the
Web 50 Total Bonus
Points 940 Score Summary: CW Digital
Phone Total Total QSOs 106 110 180 Total Points 212 220
180 612 Claimed Score = 1,224 Submitted by: Stephen W. Szabo, WB4OMM Daytona Beach City EOC 990 Orange Avenue Daytona Beach, FL 32114 E-mail:
sszabo1@cfl. Comments: GOTA Coach: Michael George KG2U Band/Mode QSO Breakdown: CW
Digital Phone QSOs Pwr(W) QSOs Pwr(W)
QSOs Pwr(W)
160m
80m 5 100
40m 34
100 54 100
20m 76
100 21 100
15m 106
100 55 100
10m 21 100
6m
2m 1 25
1.25
Other
Satellite
GOTA
23 100
TOTAL 106
110 180 GOTA Bonus: GOTA Coach - Double
Bonus Points Name/Call
QSOs Bonus Points Stephany George (11yoa), (NONE)
21 40 Tyler Causey (9 yoa), (NONE)
1 0 Karen Baum, (NONE)
1 0 The DB CERT Amateur Radio Group will be participating in a
nationwide Field Day exercise on Saturday, June 28th, and Sunday June 29th,
2008.
WHEREAS, Amateur Radio has continued to provide a bridge between peoples, societies and countries by creating friendships and the sharing of ideas; and RE4S, Amateur Radio Operators have also provided countless hours of community services throughout theses decades; and WHEREAS. the State also recognizes the services Amateur Radio's people also provide to our many Emergency Response organizations, including the Daytona Beach Amateur Radio Association, Inc. K4BV, and the Daytona Beach CERT Amateur Radio Club K14LBF; and WHEREAS, the City of Daytona Beach recognizes and appreciates the diligence of these "hams" who also serve as weather spotters in the Skywarn program of the US Government Weather Bureau; and WHEREAS, Amateur Radio once again proved its undisputed relevance in the modern world in 2005 by providing emergency communications when other systems failed in the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the USA and in the Tsunami catastrophe overseas; and WHEREAS, the ARRL is the leading organization for Amateur Radio in the USA and the ARRL Amateur Radio Field Day exercise will take place on June 28-29, 2008. This exercise is a 24 hour emergency encampment exercise and demonstration of the Radio Amateurs' skills and readiness to provide self-supporting communications even in fields without further infrastructure; 40W THEREFORE, I, Glenn Ritchey, Mayor of the City of Daytona Beach, Florida, -ereby officially recognize and designate June 23 -29, 2008 as: AMATEUR RADIO WEEK IN THE CITY OF DAYTONA BEACH IN wTTNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of The City of _ - :: a Beach Florida to be affixed i s 23' day of une 2008.
Field Day with DB-CERT
Daytona Beach CERT Amateur Radio Club
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