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Field Day
2013

Pictures from 2007

The 2013 Field Day was the third joint operation with MAARS and Gateway Technical College Radio Club.  We continued our setup at Konkel Park in Greenfield WI.  We continued to improved our setup and was able to make more contacts than the year before.  The weather was very wet this year.  This was the first weekend of the Greenfield farmers market.  We gain more exposure to the public because of the event. 



New Farmers Market sign.



MRAC Banner on Disco tent.


MAARS Banner on MAARS ROVER


Greenfield PD booth at Farmers Market


Mark NX1K working CW.  Our GOTA station is operated by a young man and future ham.
t 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!

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