Jim’s field day photo’s have been uploaded to the photo gallery. Mine were posted there five days earlier.

• This Years
  • Jim’s pics
  • Mark’s pics
• Past Years
  • 2012 Pics
  • 2009 Pics

48 Pages from 15 different years, 21.7MB download:
https://www.albemarleradio.org/beacon/issues/fieldday_clips.pdf

Some pages appear half size due to mixing from different pdf resolutions. Zoom as needed.

Many pages are marked with year and month, but some are not. Here was the list of files (filename is year and month) and page numbers.… Read the rest

I have scanned and uploaded 13 years of past newsletters, 1992-2004. The newsletters are an important part of the documentation of the clubs history. They include :

• Minutes of meetings
• Descriptions of past Field Days and other contests and operating events
• Information about past responses to emergencies
• History of our repeaters
• Information about past VE sessions
• Information about our past public service events
• Information about our interaction with served agencies
• Silent Key obituaries
• Club financial business
• Who presented what and when
• Past Foxhunts
• Donations
• New Members – when they joined
• Club Calendar
• Who held elected offices, and when
• Club Property
• Member biographies
• A record of member’s legacy (for family genealogists)
• Articles on technology and technique
• 10 or 20 Years ago today…

As many of you know, back during the changing of the guard from last years leadership to this years, I encountered 4 binders worth of back issues of the beacon and although back issues of the beacon are online back to 2005, the contents of several of these binders were not found on the website.… Read the rest

Photo Credit: NOAA Photo Library

National Weather Service Blog notes that:

June, July, and August are the peak months for both lightning and lightning fatalities

Slides from Feb 2008 AARC Presentation on Station Grounding and Lightning Protection by Alan Swinger, K9MBQ.… Read the rest

The reverse beacon network picked up the W4DO call sign 71 times during field day on 15m,20m,40m, and 80m bands. This includes spots from HD9DCO Switzerland, EA4TX Spain, DL1EMY Germany, ON5KQ Belgium, S50ARX Slovenia, DR1A Germany, F5VLY France, VE2WU Canada, and PJ2T Curacao (Island off coast of Venezuela ).… Read the rest

Photo Credit: AK4OL

Field Day Photos taken by AK4OL have been uploaded to the Photo Gallery.

https://www.albemarleradio.org/gallery2/v/FieldDay2013/ak4ol_small/… Read the rest

Field day log file in ADIF format is attached; thanks to Bill N0WP.
Also the summary points file is attached. It does not include bonus points we get for activities unknown to the logging program. This data shown below has also been condensed into a 1 page summary which is attached as a .pdf… Read the rest