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Field Day
2012
Pictures from 2007
The 2012 Field Day was the second joint
operation with MAARS. We continued our setup at
Konkel Park in Greenfield WI. We improved our setup
and was able to make more contacts than the year before.
The
Milwaukee Radio Amateurs' Club will hold a
demonstration of emergency communication abilities as
a part of an annual Field Day event on the grounds of
the Ozaukee County
Historical Society's Pioneer Village from 8:00am
Saturday, June 27th until 1:00pm, Sunday, June
28th. The times include setup and
teardown. There is NO charge to visit our
Field Day site! There is a charge
however, to gain admittance to the remainder of
Pioneer Village.
The
annual Field Day event is held on the fourth full
weekend of June as the climax of the weeklong “Amateur
Radio Week” sponsored by the Amateur Radio Relay
League (ARRL), the national Association of Amateur
Radio. The purpose of the event is to practice
and prove hams are able to send messages in many forms
without the use of phone systems, the Internet or any
other infrastructure that might be compromised in a
crisis. Each year, ham radio operators set up
communications at remote locations using power sources
that vary between solar power, batteries, generators
and commercial power. These "field" operations
take place in locations that range from parks to
shopping malls. Hams in the US, Canada and South
America participate.
The
setting for the MRAC Field Day is the historic train
depot at Pioneer Village. The history of the railroad
and the telegraph makes this location a perfect
setting for this event.
Our Field Day site
Visitors
are welcome to come and try amateur radio for
themselves. MRAC will sponsor a G.O.T.A. (Get On
The Air) station where anyone, children included, may
participate by getting on air under the guidance of a
licensed ham. Visitors will be able to see
different methods of communication, he different
radios and antennas hams use, and learn about the
varied activities that make up amateur radio.
This really is a perfect opportunity to get a taste of
amateur radio. Please come and visit and maybe
even operate!
This page was last
updated on
01/12/2014
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