WCARES Field Day 2025

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Get Ready for Field Day 2025!
June 28, 1PM – June 29, 1PM

Where:
3000 BrightStone Pkwy
Franklin, TN 37064
Click here to see the location on Google Maps

Work a station
We will have 2 stations setup in the climate controlled comfort of the Williamson County EMA Communications Trailer. Signup to operate a 2 hour shift, No Sweat! You can also help with setup and tear down – Sweat included at no charge.

Signup here:
CW Station
SSB / Phone Station
Setup / Teardown

Drop by, socialize, see the setup, bring a friend
Field Day is a great time to connect with fellow Hams and see an ARES remote setup. Bring a friend who may be interested in Amateur Radio and ARES.

Get On The Air – GOTA Station
Michael KJ4TFV will be working with visitors to Get On The Air. Bring your neighbor, kids, grandkids, in-laws, friends and show them how to GOTA.

Saturday evening fire pit rag chew
7-9 PM – Just show up no RSVP needed

SEE YOU AT FIELD DAY!

WCARES Field Day 2025

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Get Ready for Field Day 2025!
June 28, 1PM – June 29, 1PM

Where:
3000 BrightStone Pkwy
Franklin, TN 37064
Click here to see the location on Google Maps

Work a station
We will have 2 stations setup in the climate controlled comfort of the Williamson County EMA Communications Trailer. Signup to operate a 2 hour shift, No Sweat! You can also help with setup and tear down – Sweat included at no charge.

Signup here:
CW Station
SSB / Phone Station
Setup / Teardown

Drop by, socialize, see the setup, bring a friend
Field Day is a great time to connect with fellow Hams and see an ARES remote setup. Bring a friend who may be interested in Amateur Radio and ARES.

Get On The Air – GOTA Station
Michael KJ4TFV will be working with visitors to Get On The Air. Bring your neighbor, kids, grandkids, in-laws, friends and show them how to GOTA.

Saturday evening fire pit rag chew
7-9 PM – Just show up no RSVP needed

SEE YOU AT FIELD DAY!

WCARES Field Day 2024

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2024 Field Day
June 22-23

Where: 
3000 BrightStone Pkwy
Franklin, TN 37064
Click here to see the location on Google Maps

WCARES Field Day 2024

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Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC / 1300 CDT Saturday and running through 2059 UTC / 1259 CDT Sunday.

Field Day 2024 is June 22-23.

For all the details please see this link.

Be sure to read the ARRL rules which you can find here along with everything else about Field Day here.

WCARES Field Day 2023 & Tape Measure Yagi build photos

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Rene, KM4RGL testing his tape measure Yagi with David, W4DER [Dave, KI4PSR]

John, NM4N at CW. [Andy, KY4DF]

Andrew, N5EI and his children building tape measure Yagis [Dave, KI4PSR]

Rene, KM4RGL building a tape measure Yagi [Dave, KI4PSR]
Paul, KM4PT building a tape measure Yagi [Dave, KI4PSR]
Nick with his completed tape measure Yagi [Dave, KI4PSR]
Jonathan with his completed tape measure Yagi [Dave, KI4PSR]
Andrew, N5EI and his children with the completed tape measure Yagis [Dave, KI4PSR]
Doug and Nick building their tape measure Yagis. [Dave, KI4PSR]
Our EC Jeff, KC1DWP building his tape measure Yagi [Dave, KI4PSR]
Jim with his completed tape measure Yagi [Dave, KI4PSR]
Andrew, N5EI completing the tape measure Yagis [Dave, KI4PSR]

WCARES Field Day 2023 – Update 2 HamDash, 2nd SSB, GOTA, Tape Measure YAGI

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Update 2  – be sure to check out the introduction to HamDash in Paul’s June Monthly Meeting video.

Update – we have added:

  • a second SSB station so there are additional time slots available and
  • a GOTA station so bring your family and friends.

And: Build an antenna for Fox Hunting June 24th

During Field Day, at the Public Safety Center. Dave Matthews (KI4PSR) will be hosting a “Tape Measure Yagi” antenna-building exercise. Tape-measure Yagi antennas are great for Fox Hunting events. If you would like to participate in this kit build please get in touch with Dave.

Dave will have kits for the first dozen participants. The cost is anticipated to be around $28 for the parts. Please bring cash to pay Dave for the parts.

The Antennas will be great to have for the upcoming WCARES Fox Hunt later this year. Fox hunt participants do not need to be licensed to the antennas as it is a receive-only event. So this is a great way to get kids, XLS, XYLS and friends to participate.

Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC / 1300 CDT Saturday and running through 2059 UTC / 1259 CDT Sunday.

Field Day 2023 is June 24-25.

Again this year, we will be operating from the EOC for SSB and CW or your QTH or other designated location for any Digital mode in order to minimize interference on the bands.

And again we’ll use the aggregate scoring as WCARES-TN.

For all the details please read the WCARES Field Day Rules for 2023 which you can find here. This document includes the link to sign up for an operator slot or slots! at the EOC for CW and/or SSB.

Be sure to also read the ARRL new rules which you can find here along with everything else about Field Day here.

June 2023 In-Person & Virtual Monthly Meeting: Field Day, HamDash and digital troubleshooting

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Paul KM4PT discussed Field Day and along with Cliff N4CCB introduced the group to HamDash:

Troubleshooting Digital Modes
Hoop K9QJS presents a framework for solving problems with digital modes… which can encompass operating system, soundcard, transceiver, and software issues.

If you’ve ever had your system working perfectly only to have it fail for some mysterious reason, this presentation is for you!

A PDF of his presentation is available here and the video is here (Recorded on June 17th, 2023 at the monthly WCARES meeting):

WCARES Field Day 2023

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Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC / 1300 CDT Saturday and running through 2059 UTC / 1259 CDT Sunday.

Field Day 2023 is June 24-25.

Again this year, we will be operating from the EOC for SSB and CW or your QTH or other designated location for any Digital mode in order to minimize interference on the bands.

And again we’ll use the aggregate scoring as WCARES-TN.

For all the details please read the WCARES Field Day Rules for 2023 which you can find here. This document includes the link to sign up for an operator slot or slots! at the EOC for CW and/or SSB.

Be sure to also read the ARRL new rules which you can find here along with everything else about Field Day here.

WCARES Field Day 2022 – change of location

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Note the change of location – now Public Safety Center (EOC) and home

Out of concern over the currently forecast high temperatures, the decision has been made to move this years WCARES Field Day back to the Public Safety Center for SSB and CW and at-home (for digital.)

Note that set-up will not happen until 8 AM on Saturday morning.

If you did not sign up because of weather conditions now is a good time to sign up for air conditioned spaces!

WCARES Field Day information can be found here.

To sign up and participate with WCARES click here.

There are still lots of openings for Phone, Digital and CW Operators.

Look for more details to follow here on the website, WCARES Notes and the Monday night net.

If you have other questions please contact Paul Tampien KM4PT (KM4PT@arrl.net) .

Field Day 2021 in pictures

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Another WCARES Field Day is in the books. After a long period of only virtual events we were able to enjoy a limited in-person Field Day at the EOC in addition to members operating at home or in the field.

The pictures were provided by Josh N4CSV, Robert KA5WMF, Doug W4DML, Cliff N4CCB and Phil W4PHS.

  • N4CSV home station
  • N4CSV home station
  • KA5WMF park operations
  • W4DML EOC CW
  • W4DML EOC Emcomm
  • W4DML EOC Emcomm
  • N4CCB EOC Emcomm
  • N4CCB EOC CW
  • N4CCB EOC CW
  • N4CCB EOC CW
  • N4CCB EOC CW
  • N4CCB EOC CW
  • W4PHS EOC Emcomm