The GSBARC Field Day operation is not like others as we operate 6F as W2GSB with GOTA station W2TOB, satellite and a VHF/UHF station. We set up in the park at the Babylon Town Hall which is where our emergency operations center (EOC) is located. Thus we get to show our setup in a public space. The EOC is available for us to use for things like traffic handling, but the action takes place in the park and parking area at Town Hall. Emergency power is supplied by several generators that we use with our emergency "GO" kits and likewise the transceivers, CW paddles, microphones and other equipment are from the "GO" kits that we would normally use for emergency deployment. Using these "GO" kits on most of our special events gives us the chance to make sure everything is ready in an emergency.

We operate three transmitters on SSB and three transmitters on CW.  The SSB stations are located in a large portable shelter on the north side of the park and the CW and VHF/UHF operation takes place in our club EOC trailer on the south. The SSB and CW stations use N1MM-plus for logging and are separately networked.  The GOTA station is located in a separate tent on the south side of the park near the satellite station which has its own shelter.  Each station is powered by separate Honda generators.  This year, the SSB stations used two Icom IC-756pro transceivers and an IC-7600.   The CW stations used three IC-7600 transceivers and a IC-7100 for the VHF/UHF station.  Likewise an IC-7100 was used for the GOTA station.  The satellite station used an IC-9100 into a steerable computer controlled satellite tracking array.  Laptop computers were used for logging. Antennas for the SSB station included dipoles for 80 and 40 meters and a Cushcraft C-3 triband yagi fed through a triplexer and bandpass filters to allow three stations to simultaneously receive and transmit on the tribander. The tribander was located on an 85-foot boom (sometimes referred to as a cherry picker) which also acted as part of the support for the some dipoles. On the CW side we had another 85-foot boom which supported the VHF/UHF antennas as well as part of the support for the 80 and 40 meter dipoles for CW.  The club has a 55 ft tower mounted on a trailer which supported another Cushcraft C-3 tribander for CW.  Likewise the CW triband antenna was fed through bandpass filters into a triplexer to allow three stations to operate using the same antennas on 10, 15 and 20 meters.  All yagi antennas had a separate rotator to allow us to peak the yagis in the direction of maximum propagation.