All, I'd like to move ahead with holding Field Day at the Legion Hall again. The conversation was good here but kinda died out. Part of the returning to the legion hall would involve the purchase of the following: 1. Purchase of and construction of sound-proof booths. Jeff's link to the PVC booth is probably the best for a lightweight, reasonably-transportable-and-stored setup. We'd also purchase a number of moving blankets. These booths would be arranged roughly as shown in the diagram I circulated earlier. We would also need to buy and/or borrow some lights and fans for in the booths. 2. Purchase of multiple new, longer feedline to run into the field behind the hall. This would likely need to be a custom build of 275' to 300'. If we go with the lighter and cheaper RG-8U, the loss is 2.7 dB at 30MHz for 300'. I would assume we want two runs out to the field for 20m and under bands. 6/10/15 could be kept on the side of the building where we have deployed other years for shorter runs. 3. Power. The club should consider purchasing its own Honda EU generator (or perhaps several cheaper models given low use?). Are there any fundamental objections to this plan? I would also like to propse that the Field Day Tech team meet at 5:30 on Thursday, March 21st at the Eagles before the club meeting to hammer out details and next steps. Any thoughts about that? Jason
I agree with your plan and I would love to be part of the meeting. However, I'll be out of the country so I would be willing to join via online if possible or needed. On Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 5:06 PM Jason McCormick via Field Day Tech < fd-tech@w8wky.org> wrote:
All,
I'd like to move ahead with holding Field Day at the Legion Hall again. The conversation was good here but kinda died out. Part of the returning to the legion hall would involve the purchase of the following:
1. Purchase of and construction of sound-proof booths. Jeff's link to the PVC booth is probably the best for a lightweight, reasonably-transportable-and-stored setup. We'd also purchase a number of moving blankets. These booths would be arranged roughly as shown in the diagram I circulated earlier. We would also need to buy and/or borrow some lights and fans for in the booths.
2. Purchase of multiple new, longer feedline to run into the field behind the hall. This would likely need to be a custom build of 275' to 300'. If we go with the lighter and cheaper RG-8U, the loss is 2.7 dB at 30MHz for 300'. I would assume we want two runs out to the field for 20m and under bands. 6/10/15 could be kept on the side of the building where we have deployed other years for shorter runs.
3. Power. The club should consider purchasing its own Honda EU generator (or perhaps several cheaper models given low use?).
Are there any fundamental *objections* to this plan?
I would also like to propse that the Field Day Tech team meet at 5:30 on Thursday, March 21st at the Eagles before the club meeting to hammer out details and next steps. Any thoughts about that?
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I am fine with meeting early on the 21st, however I cannot support this plan. On Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 5:13 PM Scott Talbot via Field Day Tech < fd-tech@w8wky.org> wrote:
I agree with your plan and I would love to be part of the meeting. However, I'll be out of the country so I would be willing to join via online if possible or needed.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 5:06 PM Jason McCormick via Field Day Tech < fd-tech@w8wky.org> wrote:
All,
I'd like to move ahead with holding Field Day at the Legion Hall again. The conversation was good here but kinda died out. Part of the returning to the legion hall would involve the purchase of the following:
1. Purchase of and construction of sound-proof booths. Jeff's link to the PVC booth is probably the best for a lightweight, reasonably-transportable-and-stored setup. We'd also purchase a number of moving blankets. These booths would be arranged roughly as shown in the diagram I circulated earlier. We would also need to buy and/or borrow some lights and fans for in the booths.
2. Purchase of multiple new, longer feedline to run into the field behind the hall. This would likely need to be a custom build of 275' to 300'. If we go with the lighter and cheaper RG-8U, the loss is 2.7 dB at 30MHz for 300'. I would assume we want two runs out to the field for 20m and under bands. 6/10/15 could be kept on the side of the building where we have deployed other years for shorter runs.
3. Power. The club should consider purchasing its own Honda EU generator (or perhaps several cheaper models given low use?).
Are there any fundamental *objections* to this plan?
I would also like to propse that the Field Day Tech team meet at 5:30 on Thursday, March 21st at the Eagles before the club meeting to hammer out details and next steps. Any thoughts about that?
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I'll be there but let's make it 5:45 so some of us can grab Texas Burritos @ Casa Nuestra with the crew first. Please. 1) I don't like the sound-proof booth idea. **fundamental objection** I don't want to put them up, I don't want to take them down. I don't want to isolate operators like that. I don't want to operate while looking at a moving blanket. 2) If we're going to throw $$$ at something, let's buy a spool of better-than-that coax and a dozen Amphenol connectors and cut/build what we need/want. Let's not lose 2.7dB if we don't have to. 3) I'm all for having a club generator. We will still need a back-up or 2 handy(notes from 2023 field day). We should find ways to use it more than once/year. All of this sounds like QRN without knowing what antennae we will be using and how we plan on getting it up in the air: we can have the sound proofest booths, run LMR-600, run a generator the size of a city, and I can authoritarian butts in seats for radios all night long but without great antennae up where we need them... Let's walk out of this meeting knowing what and how with antennae. On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 5:15 PM Bill Storr via Field Day Tech < fd-tech@w8wky.org> wrote:
I am fine with meeting early on the 21st, however I cannot support this plan.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 5:13 PM Scott Talbot via Field Day Tech < fd-tech@w8wky.org> wrote:
I agree with your plan and I would love to be part of the meeting. However, I'll be out of the country so I would be willing to join via online if possible or needed.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 5:06 PM Jason McCormick via Field Day Tech < fd-tech@w8wky.org> wrote:
All,
I'd like to move ahead with holding Field Day at the Legion Hall again. The conversation was good here but kinda died out. Part of the returning to the legion hall would involve the purchase of the following:
1. Purchase of and construction of sound-proof booths. Jeff's link to the PVC booth is probably the best for a lightweight, reasonably-transportable-and-stored setup. We'd also purchase a number of moving blankets. These booths would be arranged roughly as shown in the diagram I circulated earlier. We would also need to buy and/or borrow some lights and fans for in the booths.
2. Purchase of multiple new, longer feedline to run into the field behind the hall. This would likely need to be a custom build of 275' to 300'. If we go with the lighter and cheaper RG-8U, the loss is 2.7 dB at 30MHz for 300'. I would assume we want two runs out to the field for 20m and under bands. 6/10/15 could be kept on the side of the building where we have deployed other years for shorter runs.
3. Power. The club should consider purchasing its own Honda EU generator (or perhaps several cheaper models given low use?).
Are there any fundamental *objections* to this plan?
I would also like to propse that the Field Day Tech team meet at 5:30 on Thursday, March 21st at the Eagles before the club meeting to hammer out details and next steps. Any thoughts about that?
Jason _______________________________________________ Field Day Tech mailing list -- fd-tech@w8wky.org To unsubscribe send an email to fd-tech-leave@w8wky.org
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