We received a batch of photos from the AARO President, Andrew Watson K5NNN, taken during their field day on June 25th at Raymond Russel Park, on the NW side of San Antonio.
Click the link below to see the gallery of photos –
We received a batch of photos from the AARO President, Andrew Watson K5NNN, taken during their field day on June 25th at Raymond Russel Park, on the NW side of San Antonio.
Click the link below to see the gallery of photos –
Wow! This was a great Field Day! It was one of the best that I have attended with the club in my ten years. We worked 45 States and and 4 of 8 Canadian provinces! The states we missed were RI, Nevada, Alaska, Wyoming and West Virginia. Other than those states we only missed two other US sections North New York and Virgin Islands. So out of 71 ARRL in the US sections we only missed seven!!!! We had 444 QSO’s in the log which is way up! This is due mostly to the excellent PSK31 operators!! A big thanks to all that came out to make this so successful, safe and fun!!
Paul Guido, N5IUT
Thank you to all !!!
Wow….. AA5RO Field Day was the best !! We had over 80 hams that showed up to the Big event… We had 5 new members that join the club and made many contacts.
Thank you to Martin for the antenna building Class. Martin’s class built over ten ladder line antennas and had lots of good fun.
Walt had a great class and we would like to see Walt teach his class to the whole club at a future meeting.
Tony our club V.P. did a great job cooking for the club and landing the Field Day spot at Raymond Russell Park.
Thank you to all the Volunteer’s and Members that made this a great Field Day..
Andrew, K5NNN
AARO Club President
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Ready for Field Day 2011?
If not, and you plan to participate, “Time’s a wasting.” Our June Members meeting will be at the clubhouse Friday at 7PM – that’s this Friday the 24th! Hope to see you there.
ROOST Club House
7201 Palm Park
San Antonio, TX 78223
See Map Here
Take Hwy 181 Southeast from Loop 410 towards Floresville. Palm Park is just outside of Loop 1604 on the right.
We do plan to have a meal so bring a side dish please. Some of us will be there a few hours early to start some FD set‐up and your help will be appreciated if you can make it. A solar panel tray needs to be mounted at the base of our 3‐legged roof‐mounted tower, then wires run to the batteries. Once it and two people are on the roof it should go fast, maybe 30 minutes or less. It will mount with four U‐Bolts and the mount is ready and adjustable.
Erik KD5YZU will site his “EGG” under the big tree we meet under and plans to stay overnight Friday and help with security. Saturday AM as early as helpers appear we’ll finish to be ready for the FD kick‐off at 18:00 ZULU/GMT/UTC; that’s 1:00 PM if you need a translation.
If you’ll be operating, logging, or otherwise present during FD‐2011 please bring some chow and what you want to drink to keep cool. Some insect repellent might be handy, our main problem has been mosquitoes and flies. What works for flies?
If your self‐confidence level still isn’t up to helping with an HF band activity, don’t stay away on that account. W5ROS is quite capable on 2M FM with a gain vertical up 80 feet and you can “do the do” there and work much of STX on SIMPLEX. If we get on 2M FM, W5ROS will “haunt” 146.54 SPX and scan around regularly. Let someone know ASAP if that’s your thing and we’ll reserve it for you.
73 and hope to see you Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
73s Bob X5XW
The McArc team will gather at the Medina County Rest Stop for Field Day this year. The Medina County Rest Stop is located on US Hwy 90, west of D’Hanis. The pavilion that we have used for Field-nics- unless its otherwise occupied.
McArc’s Field Day team will be on site at 1200 and operational at 1300 (12 PM and 1 PM). A lunch meal is planned for after 1500 (3 PM). The plans may be modified by the weather, mosquitoes, excessive heat, etc.
For more information or additional details contact Tom Taylor or Walter Hock.
Kendall Amateur Radio Society (KB5TX) always holds a field day, usually at the Kendall County Fairgrounds in recent years, but due to something that happened last year, we’ve heard a rumor they have relocated their FD location. We’ve sent email to their officers asking for clarification, but don’t have that news yet.
If interested in going to Boerne for KARS’ Field Day, we recommend trying to contact them on their primary 2 meter repeater, 146.64 (-, 88.5 tone) and calling for them. There is no information up on their new website about this event.
AA5RO FIELD DAY SCHEDULE 2011
JUNE 25TH NOON TO MIDNIGHT
RAYMOND RUSSELL PARK (IH-10 West past 1604, Camp Bullis Exit)
See Map Here
AARO will only be running 11 hours, until midnight, not 24 hours, so don’t show up for breakfast on Sunday morning. Some operators may decide to keep on operating, but the club’s FD effort will shut down as indicated on the schedule below.
Talkin on the 147.38 AARO Repeater (+,162.2 tone) maybe, if we aren’t too busy on HF. 🙂
Schedule for Saturday, June 25th