The Field Day Planning team offers the following update for your awareness and consideration. The update includes two parts, results and planning actions taken based on your input.
First, thank you to those that completed our recent survey. The input from 29 people that responded is much appreciated. Having evaluated the feedback, here are a few insights that are forming our planning process:
1) Eight individuals stated they plan to activate their own station, eight stated that they would like to operate a club station, and another seven said they will attend socially.
2) With regard to Field Day site, nine people said that an accessible location is first priority, seven said that visibility to the public is first priority and five said that operating considerations were first priority.
3) As for duration of participation, 18 respondents said that they will participate for a few and, or daylight hours. Four said that they would participate in the evening and seven. And four people said that they will participate the entire Field Day (location permitting).
4) Nearly all said that they would like to help with field day, either in set-up/break-down, supervising the GOTA station, arranging food or with administrative tasks.
5) As for operating mode, those planning to work a station said that they would prefer to operate: SSB (12), FM (9), Digital (6) and CW (3).
6) Respondents were fairly evenly distributed with regard to their Band preference (80 – 10M & VHF/UHF).
Now that we have received your input, we are working on securing permission for a Field Day site. Based on your input, we prepared a list of sites and have evaluated them according to criteria identified through the survey. We are actively engaging site owners/administrators and will report back as soon as we have more information to share.
We are also preparing an operating plan that will guide gathering of equipment & supplies, as well as organization of the Field Day itself. We will communicate this plan when it is more fully developed. We will then also solicit volunteers for specific tasks.
Finally, we will be preparing a communications plan, both for our membership, and the public – many of you indicated we should utilize this opportunity to promote our hobby and club to our community.
Thanks again for your input and strong interest in this event. Should you have questions or further input, please feel free to contact Warren Myers KM6ZZI or Mike Wapner K6QD.
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The SBARC Field Day Planning Team
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