ARRL Field Day 2015
Friday afternoon, June 26th, setup began at Cluff Pond 3 for the Eastern Arizona Amateur Radio Society 2015 ARRL Field Day Exercise. Dan’s 20M Moxon Beam was deployed on the mesa again this year as was the 5BTV vertical. Across the road in the parking lot the 40M/80M fan dipole, along with a folded double Zepp, were deployed from the bus mast to provide plenty of choice in antennas.
Internet was made available thanks to the HSMM Mesh Nodes of Wendall, W7WGW, and
Dan, AF7EF. Besides using the mesh nodes to Network N1MM logging for Field Day, Wendall, W7WGW demonstrated the use of the mesh nodes networking capability to look in on a live camera at his QTH 10.5 miles away.
This year EAARS field day exchange was K7EAR 3A AZ. N7AM Dave, K7ZOO Curt, AF7EF Dan, KG7EQN Jacob and W7MIN Gary put the club call K7EAR to use again this year with a total of 585 QSOs using CW, SSB and PSK31 during ARRL’s 2015 Field Day Exercises.
Kurt, K7ZOO, gave an instructive presentation on “Protective Cases for EmergencyEquipment” of the type we use in Amateur Radio. John, W7STH upgraded to General Class and we gained a new Amateur in the Gila Valley when David B. Lee of Pima passed his Technician class test recieving his new call sign KG7UUA.
The operators give thanks to Kennie Joe and David Lee for bringing over coffee,
breakfast burros, watermelon and cherry tomatoes for breakfast Saturday and Sunday mornings and for David’s help setting up. Also helping during this years activities was Dave, N7AM’s significant other Luvina, Dave’s Daughter Penny, KB7EDQ, Wendall, W7WGW and his brother Arvin, along with Dan, AF7EF were grandchildren Virginia (Wiedmeyer) Garcia, Tabatha Wiedmeyer, her boyfriend Matt Gonzales, Syrena Wiedmeyer, Dakota Quaintance, Caylun Quaintance and greatgrandson Titus, all showed up to man a GOTA station . From beginning to end, because of the Hot days and cool pond, there was lots of people exposed to and asking questions about Amateur Radio.