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information, and signups for attendance and volunteering will be posted in November or December 2021.

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There is a much bigger wrap-up article to come yet but in the meantime, thanks to everyone that came out to Field Day this year. The facility was great as always, the teams worked great together and I believe everyone had a good time. We had around 60 people there and made around 1200 QSOs (preliminary scoring summary here) plus obtained our satellite contact. More to come but in the mean time, take a gander at this fantastic photo from our club president, Pat AA0O.

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We have a real-time status display of the operation at this year’s Field Day. The contacts are tracked in real-time and available in several handy graphs. If you can’t make it to Field Day but want to check on our progress, please click on the map at the right side of the website. You can also access it directly at https://www.sparc-club.org/sparc-real-tme-contest-display-dashboard/

Enjoy!

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Sign-up Sheet Now Available See below…

Signup Deadline to guarantee Meals: Tuesday June 22 @ 11:59 PM.

After a long cold winter of no Field Day events, we are happy to announce that Field Day 2021 is on! As has been our mode for the last several events, we will be operating Field Day with a combined club effort with the Clearwater Amateur Radio Society and the Upper Pinellas Amateur Radio Club. The event is on June 26 and 27th, 2021 at the Clearwater Fire Training Center (1716 N Belcher Rd., Clearwater, FL 33765). The operating starts at 2:00 PM local time and runs 24 hours through Sunday. Setup typically starts at 8:00 AM on Saturday morning.

In keeping with current CDC guidelines, people that are vaccinated are free to attend with no restrictions. We do suggest if you have not been vaccinated that you plan on a mask. (Note this is subject to any restrictions the Clearwater Fire Department may put upon us–more on that later).

We will operate 3 HF stations with CW, SSB and FT8 available. We also have 6 meters (SSB and FT8) and a satellite station. We will have more info shortly including a form where you can tell us if you will be staying for meals, operating, etc. Please plan on attending Field Day 2021 and welcome everyone back to the world of operating in-person!

You can access the sign-up sheet here. Please sign up so we know how many to plan for food.

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A normal task we always do on Field Day is to copy the W1AW special bulletin sent each year before and during Field Day. This activity simulates what you would do if in a real emergency and you were relying upon bulletins from the ARRL for information. So it is a good skill to learn. To boot, you get 100 bonus points for doing it.

The bulletin is sent in multiple modes (CW, digital (RTTY, PSK31 and MFSK16) and phone. This starts at Friday night at 8:00 local time with CW, then digital at 9:00 and phone at 9:45.

Check out this PDF for more information: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Field-Day/2020/4_37-2020%20W1AW%20Sked.pdf

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