Winter Field Day Weekend

We will be participating in Winter Field Day January 27-28 from the

Marvin C. Gilbert EMA Operations Building - EMA Station 720
20900 Northwest Parkway.
Marysville, OH 43040

Google Maps Link:
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Our Winter Field Day plans will be informal. Without anyone volunteering to coordinate the Winter Field Day operating event, we will be winging it. 

There will be a control operator present so anyone with a technician license or anyone that does not have their amateur radio license will be able to make some contacts on the HF bands with the control operator.

The official Winter Field Day Operational Period: Winter Field Day is held the last full weekend in January. For 2024, it will be held on January 27th and 28th. The 24-hour operational period starts at 1900 UTC on Saturday, the 27th, and ends at 18:59 UTC on Sunday, the 28th. Stations may begin setting up no earlier than 19:00 UTC (2 pm EST) on the Friday before. However, cumulative set-up time shall not exceed 12 hours. 

Please plan on bringing something to contribute towards a pot luck to share with everyone.

If there is enough interest to operate over night; If you plan to operate over night, please bring your own sleeping bag, blanket, pillow, cot, sleeping pad, etc. The sleeping arrangements will be inside the EMA station on a concrete floor or commercial carpeted concrete floor.

If there isn't enough interest to operate over night; We will shut things down Saturday night, go home and may come back at an undetermined time on Sunday (again, we are winging it) to resume winter field day operations.

If you are arriving Sunday morning to participate in winter field day, please eat breakfast before you arrive.

Please monitor the 145.350 repeater Sunday for an exact time when Winter Field Day operations may resume. Please let everyone know when you are heading to Station 720, etc  on the repeater.

Sunday lunch will be determined by everyone that is present at Station 720 (again we are winging it).

We hope to see everyone for Winter Field Day at EMA Station 720

73,

Ed KE8ANU