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Amateur Radio Field Day will be June 23-25.  This is an invitation to come
visit the West Valley Amateur Radio Association's Field Day site.  If you're
a licensed Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) operator, you can get a chance to
operate lots of different kinds of radios - and you might have already been
looking forward to participating in Field Day with some local club.  If
you don't have a license but were thinking of getting one, Field Day is
an excellent chance to take a look at the hobby where you'll find more
Ham Radios in use in one place than at any other time.

It's a nationwide event so if you're reading this from areas where you can't
come to our site, there's almost surely another Ham Radio club in your area
also participating in Field Day.

More information and directions to WVARA's Field Day can be found at
   http://www.wvara.org/fd/

Amateur Radio Field Day is an annual event coordinated by the American
Radio Relay League.  Most local Ham Radio clubs and many Hams as individuals
participate in various categories of sites ranging from a Ham Radio at home
to elaborate emergency-drill sites with stations set up from scratch with
tents and generators.  Sites may begin to set up at 11AM Pacific (8AM
Eastern) on Friday, June 23.  Once the sites are set up, a 24-hour operating
contest begins at 11AM Pacific on Saturday, June 24, where the object is to
compete against other sites for as many logged on-the-air contacts as
possible.  Each site only competes against similarly-configured sites.
There will be thousands of Field Day sites across the US and Canada, most
sites having one or two radios.

WVARA's Field Day site, located at the ridgetop residence of Charlie Norman
AB6VS at the 3000 foot elevation near the peak of Loma Prieta, will have more
than thirteen radio stations set up from scratch running mostly in tents (or
a few RVs) from generator power.  Last year WVARA's site was one of the
top ten largest Field Day sites in North America.  We anticipate similar
placement this year.

We will have the following stations operating:
   VHF digital ("packet radio")
   HF digital
   Satellite
   VHF phone 50/220/1200MHz
   VHF phone 144/440MHz
   HF 10m/80m SSB
   HF 15m SSB
   HF 20m SSB
   HF 40m SSB
   HF 15m/80m CW
   HF 20m CW
   HF 40m CW
   and a few others

As many of these stations as possible will run all 24 hours of the contest.
Our site will run with the club's W6PIY callsign.  Our contest exchange
information will be "W6PIY 13A SCV".  For every contact, each site must
provide this info and log the contact info they received.  If you can't
participate at our site, we still hope to say hello to you on the air.

There will be space to set up personal tents or park RVs for people
who wish to stay and participate at the site all weekend.  WVARA will
provide participants with friday/Saturday dinner and Saturday/Sunday
breakfast.  Other snacks will also be available throughout the event
but bring your own lunch for the days you'll be there.  If you only have
limited times to visit, consider one of the following times:
* There will be BBQs on Friday and Saturday evenings starting around 5PM
* More operators are almost always needed in the late night hours.
  You could give someone else a few hours for a nap...
* Any assistance is also appreciated for those who can help with setup
  (11AM Friday to 11AM Saturday) or cleanup (11AM-3PM Sunday).


The West Valley Amateur Radio Association is a general-interest Amateur
Radio club serving the San Jose/Silicon Valley area. The association meets
on the 3rd Wednesdays of each month, except in December when a holiday party
is held instead of a meeting.  Licensed Amateur Radio operators may also
participate in the WVARA's weekly nets (meeting on the air) Tuesdays at
8:30PM on the W6PIY repeaters. (147.39+ PL151.4, 223.96- PL156.7, 441.35+
PL88.5, 1286.2- PL100) All four repeaters are linked during the nets.
Visitors and guests are welcome at any WVARA meeting or net. See the WVARA
Home Page at http://www.wvara.org/ for more information.