{"id":10290,"date":"2026-05-14T07:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/?p=10290"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:33:56","slug":"field-day-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/10290","title":{"rendered":"Field Day Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134-100x67.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1134-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The grass has been cut at the Par3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to locate a tractor to level the center area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim has talked to the Fire Martial about getting permits for a fire pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our team Captains are John AC6SL CW,&nbsp; Craig N6SBN Phone Station,&nbsp; Tom and Tom Digital Station.&nbsp; Jerry GOTA,&nbsp; FM station&#8230;.&nbsp; &nbsp; Safety officer&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim is working on a club sign up web page.&nbsp; This page will give us a better designed schedule for our assistant operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sccarc.org\">https:\/\/sccarc.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Field Day leadership team needs to have club members helping&nbsp;<strong>set up (Friday afternoon) and taking down (Sunday around noon)<\/strong>&nbsp;There will be several station being set up.&nbsp; &nbsp;CW, Phone, FM and Digi stations. Most of the team captains need the help.&nbsp; Previously, our assistant station builders moved between the different stations helping erect antennas, setting shelters, power and radio systems.&nbsp; &nbsp;Setting up has been important, but breaking down those stations on Sunday is equally important. People are pretty tired at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Station builders need to wear hard hats, clothing suitable for working in the sun and a willingness to move around the site, finding stations that need the help.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#8217;m going to set a simple station, I may need less help.&nbsp; The more complex stations will need more help.&nbsp; In many cases, the large tents need several people to set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skilled hams are needed when antennas, computers and power systems fail in the field.&nbsp; We need to come together to get the malfunction station back on the air. I had a logging computer go down hours before the event. I was overwhelmed.&nbsp; &nbsp;Our club experts came together and put the computer back together.&nbsp; This was great&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, we had volunteer station operators ten deep at 10am,&nbsp; and, the station sitting unused late in the afternoon.&nbsp; &nbsp;So, we need to do a better job assigning time slots.&nbsp; Our Night shift operators are a premium. Our CW operators are a premium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is some room at the PAR 3 for a few RVs.&nbsp; These are comfortable for the club members operating late, or spending the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to having our newer operators helping out with this Field Day.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a great learning experience.&nbsp; If you can&#8217;t come one day, you might come the other.&nbsp; Assistant operators usually run for 2 hours, then move on to another station.&nbsp; There&#8217;s room for all day assistants and shorter 2 hour operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig&nbsp; Capitola Village&nbsp; N6SBN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grass has been cut at the Par3 We&#8217;re trying to locate a tractor to level the center area. Jim has talked to the Fire Martial about getting permits for a fire pit. Our team Captains are John AC6SL CW,&nbsp; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/10290\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Field Day Update<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current","category-may-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10304,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions\/10304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}