2003 ARRL Field Day
07/06/2003 |
W6PIY
Another great Field Day at 3000' in the Santa Cruz mountains (near San Jose California).
For the fifth year in a row the West Valley Amatuer Radio Association (WVARA) had a 20m Digital Station on the air (this year PSK-31 and RTTY). Lots of fun with lots of PSK-31 stations on the air. Band conditions were not the greatest, we could copy a lot of signals but folks had trouble hearing us from the west coast.
For media publicity the San Jose TV station KNTV11 (NBC for the San Francisco bay area) did a live news broadcast from our site at 5 PM on Saturday. It was a live intro, then a two-minute edited video they had filmed earlier in the day followed by a live close. KNTV11 did a great job on representing amateur radio and its value for emergency prepardness.
For more information go to http://www.wvara.org/fd/
My Field Day motto: Have fun and learn xomething new.
- Marc -- W6ZZZ
For the fifth year in a row the West Valley Amatuer Radio Association (WVARA) had a 20m Digital Station on the air (this year PSK-31 and RTTY). Lots of fun with lots of PSK-31 stations on the air. Band conditions were not the greatest, we could copy a lot of signals but folks had trouble hearing us from the west coast.
For media publicity the San Jose TV station KNTV11 (NBC for the San Francisco bay area) did a live news broadcast from our site at 5 PM on Saturday. It was a live intro, then a two-minute edited video they had filmed earlier in the day followed by a live close. KNTV11 did a great job on representing amateur radio and its value for emergency prepardness.
For more information go to http://www.wvara.org/fd/
My Field Day motto: Have fun and learn xomething new.
- Marc -- W6ZZZ
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