Field Day is THIS SATURDAY (tomorrow)!

I need a few more operators (CW and SSB) and a couple more PR persons to help with the public information table. Be sure to attend and hang out for a bit even if you can not stay for long, or operate. Everyone should bring plenty of water and food to eat (unless someone wants to volunteer to help out with group meals, especially Saturday lunch). It would be fun to go to a restaurant Sunday after we break down and clean up, so I'd like some suggestions before then.

I need a couple more people Saturday morning at 10:00am, and a couple more to help pack everything up at 2:00pm Sunday. Saturday morning we will be installing the SteppIR antenna atop the mast on the Rover van (the mast telescopes to almost 50-feet high)! We will also be running a second station with a di-pole so we will need help putting up the awning and setting up the fiberglass masts. We'll be running 100% on emergency power.

Field day is not only a contest, but a way to show the public what we, as the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club, are all about. More than 40,000 amateur radio operators throughout North America will be partipating in field day this year. Field Day has been an annual event since 1933, and remains the most popular event in amateur radio.

Check out the ARRL Field Day intro https://sbarc.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=20ad12752ef7c4ea02b61f481&a... and the ARRL Field Day Rules https://sbarc.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=20ad12752ef7c4ea02b61f481&a... for more information. If you want to follow along closely with field day activities, please subscribe to the field day mailing list found here: https://sbarc.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=20ad12752ef7c4ea02b61f481&a....

For more information, including directions to the SBARC Field Day site in the South Park area of Elings Park, visit http://www.sbarc.org. Please RSVP to ken@alker.net (or call my land line at 685-2030) today (or any time this weekend) and let me know exactly how you can help out. Please come out and help us prove that "when all else fails, amateur radio works!"

When you RSVP, please let me know what time-slot (or SLOTS) would you like. Let me know if you want to be an operator (and if you want to do morse code or voice), or do public outreach (or both) for the shift(s) you choose. Keep in mind that we are running two stations. It is proving to be hardest to fill the 11pm-7am shifts, so I need night owls too! Let me know if you want to do multiple shifts or two half-shifts, etc. If you want to create your own time slot, please do - I'll work everyone into the schedule one way or another! Also, be sure to let me know if you can help set up and/or break down.

TIME SLOTS: Sat/Sun (4-hour slots; but you can make up your own): 11am- 3pm 3pm- 7pm 7pm-11pm 11pm- 3am 3am- 7am 7am-11am 11am- 2pm

Ken Alker Director at Large ka6ken@alker.net