Field Day 2014
Field Day is June 28, 29, 2014 Table Rock Park, Medford, OR
Field day runs from 11:00 AM Saturday, June 28 through 11:00 AM, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Our club will start setup on Friday afternoon at Table Rock Park.
Please park in the Cascade Christian High School parking lot as shown in the map below. It’s just west off Biddle road near the Medford airport. Note that there is no access to the park from Table Rock Rd.
Plans for Field Day will be announced at the June member meeting; we anticipate operating W7DTA as 2A Oregon.
- CW station / TH5 tribander / crank up tower.
- Phone station. We’re trying to get a tribander and tower. Otherwise dipoles.
- VHF/UHF station.
- GOTA station. 4BTV vertical. Callsign will be K7TFC. We will also try to make some digital contacts, and may combine this with the GOTA station.
The GOTA station is specifically to help new hams, prospective hams, and anyone who is a little rusty to get on the air, try a new mode, and just have some fun.
We will have dinner Friday night after setup, and Saturday night. There will also be coffee Sunday morning (when it’s desperately needed by some of us).
From the June 2014 issue of The Repeater.
Field Day 2014 Report
From the September 2014 issue of The Repeater.
RVARC had field day this year in Table Rock park (the same spot as the previous 3 years). The weather was absolutely fabulous this year, and a great time was had by all.
So far I have not been able to locate any photographs of the event, so just visualize “last year” only more so. We ran 3A this year, with 2 Phone stations, and one CW station (plus a GOTA station, and a VHF/UHF station).
Besides Mike Bach’s trailer/crank-up tower for CW, Carl Van Orden brought his trailer / crank-up tower for phone. Todd brought his vertical for the GOTA station, and Mike brought about half of all the aluminum in southern Oregon for the VHF/UHF station.
Scott brought his triplexer and bandpass filters so that we could operate 20/15/10 simultaneously on the phone antenna.
Dan Curtis was busy assembling 40 meter dipoles for phone and CW. Dan roughly estimated the 40m phone length needed, and added a foot or so. When we put it on the phone tower, it came in dead-center in the phone band! In all my years of hamming, I’ve never seen a dipole land dead-on frequency without tweaking. I don’t know what kind of magic wire Dan used, but the 40m dipole worked like gangbusters the whole contest. We were able to hold and run a frequency on 40m the entire weekend.
Dave and wife Barbara staffed the CW station the whole weekend, and again claimed a huge pile of points (via the CW double pointers). Bud was not able to join us operating, but he copied the ARRL Field Day message the night before on CW, and gave us a 100 point bonus.
Scott ran 20m phone on the tribander with some relief breaks from Dan.
10 meters was again missing in action. The sunspots took a nosedive just before Field Day, and 10m just had that faint hissing sound.
Four years ago, we had a great 6m SSB opening that finished up and dropped dead 10 minutes before the start of Field Day, not to reopen for the whole contest. This year we had neither the pre-FD opening, nor any good opening during the event. Murphy seems to be stuck on 6m lately.
Our final claimed score was:
- CW QSOs: 331
- Phone QSOs: 836
- Claimed Score: 2,996
- Bonus Points: 790
- Total Claimed: 3786
Field Day 2014 Results
From the December 2014 issue of The Repeater.
ARRL has released results for 2014 Field Day. RVARC took top honors in the 3A category for Oregon, and 6th place overall in Oregon for all categories and power levels. Our club again made a great showing during Field Day. [ I was unable to find a score for our colleagues in Grants Pass this year (K7LIX) ].
Results for 3 Transmitter, Class A (club or non-club portable group), Medium Power, Oregon Section
| # | Call | Score | Category | QSOs | Power Mult | GOTA Call | Section | Participants | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W7DTA | 3,786 | 3A | 1,167 | 2 | K7TFC | OR | 19 | Rogue Valley ARC |
| 2 | K7CCH | 2,342 | 3A | 421 | 2 | OR | 30 | Coos Cty RC | |
| 3 | W7L | 2,090 | 3A | 294 | 2 | W7FLO | OR | 50 | Central OR Coast ARC |
| 4 | W7GRA | 1,894 | 3A | 474 | 2 | OR | 5 | Grande Ronde Radio Am | |
| 5 | WA7LO | 1,378 | 3A | 234 | 2 | WA7LO | OR | 11 | Lake Oswego ARES |
