08/13/2002 | NM8T Field Day 2002 has come and gone, but those who participated in the Plateau Amateur ARA and Black Diamond ARC Field Day event had a very enjoyable time.

The weather for this years Field Day was great. No unexpected storms and very mild temperatures.

We operated under the call of Steve White, NM8T and was 6 Alpha WV. Our Field Day activities was held at the Burnwood Campground just off of US Route 19 and near the New River Gorge Bridge. The New River Gorge Bridge is near the town of Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia and is a big tourist attraction. In October the State closes one side of this four lane bridge and allows tourist to walk across and parachuters to jump from the bridge into the New River Gorge some 800+ feet below.

Field Day has always been a joint effort between the PARA club and the BDARC club. Members from both groups get together and have a good time making contacts and fellowshipping with others.

The food was great and Dave Sizemore, N8FLY comes up from North Carolina to be our chief. He does a mean grilled chicken breast.

Tony Barnett, N8KNG was this years chairman for getting things in order for Field Day 2002.

We had 15, 20, 40 and 75 Meter SSB stations setup, we had the RTTY/PSK station setup on 20 and then there was the CW station. Jim Martin, KC8JSZ and Jess Hancock, W4PQK ran the CW station.

All in all everyone had a good time. We hope that we came in first in our category, but if we didn't we still had a good time. -- KC8CON