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ARRL 2025 Field Day Rules Packet.PDF
Field Day 2025 - 20 Meter Phone Team
By Chris Prioli, AD2CS - [email protected] - www.ad2cs.com
The GCARC 2025 Field Day event was quite successful despite the moderate heat, some light rain, some overnight fog, and the threat of thunderstorms. While the thunderstorms never materialized to any extent that affected our operation, we were nonetheless prepared with a safety plan in place should the worst have happened in that regard.
The 20 Meter Phone Team consisted of the following Club members :
While not all of the team members actually operated on-air, the contributions of every team member were invaluable, and our success would not have been possible if any one of this group of willing volunteers had not been there.
In addition to the listed team members, our team effort would have been in vain if not for the tremendous help offered by :
Mary was extremely generous in her donation to the team in the form of a tent and some furnishings. John provided our reflector mast, its cap, and its guy rings (more on the reflector mast later). Jon’s Honda generator was made available for our use. Frank provided advice, technical expertise, and generator management. All of these contributions were necessary in order for our team to be successful.
During Field Day 2024, the 20-meter phone team fought a long and hard uphill battle against overpowering signals in the 20-meter CW segment, which made it all but impossible to hear any incoming SSB communications. In spite of that problem, the team managed to make about 120 QSO’s. That problem led us to become innovative on our approach to Field Day 2025. A few months back, Frank Romeo N3PUU brought an article to my attention, in the belief that the article may have contained a potential solution to the CW QRM problem. After reading the article (whose source remained unknown to me until I began writing this article, but is now known to be Nelson Sollenberger KA2C, as found on www.ka2c.com) and doing some more research, I decided to attempt to build a filter that would notch out the CW segment of the 20-meter band, while offering minimal insertion loss to the phone segment of that band. That filter is the subject of a separate article, but it was an unknown entity prior to 1400 hrs local time on Saturday 28 June. At that time, we all went on the air, and the filter got its first real test.
I had tested the filter on the bench, and it had tuned up extremely well, but I was still unsure about just how well it might perform under real-world Field Day operating conditions. Suffice it to say that the filter was completely successful in blocking the 20-meter CW QRM that had plagued us last year. When combined with a 20-meter band-pass filter (Morgan Systems model M-407 - www.surgestop.com), we had the ideal filtering situation - only the phone segment of the 20-meter band would get through to our radio with any real signal strength.
We started out the day operating my Icom IC-718, which worked fairly well - better, I believe than the Icom IC-7300 had done last year. We stayed with the IC-718 until sundown, when I switched over to my Icom IC-746 PRO. It is my firm belief that the IC-746 PRO will be my primary Field Day radio for future events. In any case, the radio was supported by my MFJ-941E(K) Versa-Tuner II manual antenna tuner, which worked well. The reason that the MFJ-941E model number is appended by a “K” is because this tuner was built from a kit - the only tuner kit ever offered by MFJ, to the best of my knowledge.
Power was provided by one of my TekPower TP50SW 50-ampere power supply units. For grounding, we used a two-foot length of 1/2" copper pipe with ground wires leading off to each piece of radio equipment on the table. That copper pipe was in turn bonded to my Morgan Systems M302U lightning arrestor, which was bolted to a length of perforated steel angle stock that had been cut off at a point on one end. That end had been driven about thirty-six inches into the native soil of the site, just outside the tent entrance. Of course, the RG-213 coaxial cable feedline passed through the lightning arrestor as well as through the tuner and the two filter units.
Our rather unorthodox antenna was a setup suggested by Frank Romeo N3PUU. In our installation, we raised a standard Hustler 5BTV vertical antenna. We installed a radial plate on which twenty-nine (of the thirty-two available) radial attachment points each had a fifteen-foot radial wire attached, leaving a “three-wire” gap at the center of one edge of the radial plate. The radial wires were of stranded 12AWG wire, each equipped with an ounce of lead weight at its far end to help hold the wires in place on the grass. The plate-attached end of each wire had a 1/4” ring terminal crimped and soldered in place, and then sealed with heat-shrink tubing.
The arrangement of radial wires with the “three-wire” gap formed a “V”-shaped notch in the radial field. This notching of the radial field forms a null in the field, which then provides some directivity to the antenna’s radiation pattern, instead of the usual omni-directional pattern of a standard vertical antenna. This directivity was enhanced by a device that Frank had suggested - a vertical wire reflector placed at a fixed distance (0.2λ at 14.250MHz) from the base of the Hustler. This was accomplished by raising and guying a twenty-four foot tall mast at a point almost fourteen feet from the base of the antenna. To this mast was attached an additional radial wire, connected to the center of the “three-wire” gap in the radial plate, and extending up the full twenty-four foot height of the mast. This vertical radial wire forms an antenna reflector that enhances the directivity already begun by the radial field null. The result was an antenna with a pattern that strongly favored a direction 180° opposite that of the position of the reflector mast with respect to the antenna. In our case, the reflector was directly east of the antenna, causing our directional vertical antenna to strongly favor points west of the antenna’s location.
So… the question that begs being asked is “how did the antenna perform?” Well… all that I really have to go by is the results, as I never took the time to measure the radiation field with an RF field strength meter… but nevertheless, I believe that the results are fairly conclusive.
During the period when the entire country was on the air, we made absolutely zero QSO’s with any stations in FCC Areas 1, 2, and 3. In other words, no contact at all with stations to the east of our antenna location, nor with stations within about 450 miles to the west. All told, we accomplished a total of 123 QSO’s. It wasn’t until many stations dropped off the 20-meter band that we were able to score our first New England QSO, which just so happened to be with a special-event station W1M in Maine at 0809 hrs local time on Sunday.
Prior to the W1M QSO, we successfully worked station VY2PEI on Prince Edward Island (Canada) at 0754 hrs local, and station VE1LD in Nova Scotia (Canada) at 0800 hrs local. Shortly after reaching W1M, we also worked W1KJ in Maine at 0827 hrs local, K1RK in Eastern Massachusetts at 0859 hrs local, and then, apparently via ground wave, a special event station N2A in our own Section of SNJ at 0920 hrs local. Throughout the entire morning, we could hear another special event station N1M quite well, but we could never reach him to work him. However, having heard his QSO’s with other stations, it was clear that he was operating from within the EMA section.
All of this points out the basic directionality of our antenna system, with much better performance to the west than to the east. At one point, we actually made contact with a station in the Netherlands, but he was not working Field Day and had no interest in logging a DX QSO with us. However, we did work stations in both Alaska and Hawaii, as well as most of the western USA and even into British Columbia in Canada. In addition, we were quite successful into the deep south and even to Puerto Rico.
Did our activity really and truly reflect the operation of the antenna system? I believe that the operating statistics will clearly bear out the antenna report. The complete Operating Statistics for the GCARC 2025 20-meter Phone Team can be found in Appendix I at the end of this article.
Refer to the map at Figure 1 and the activity graph at Figure 2 for some more detail as to the patterns of coverage and active periods, respectively. This data was pulled from the available statistics area of the N3FJP ARRL Field Day Contest Log software, as were the statistics data provided in the appendix.
By Chris Prioli, AD2CS - [email protected] - www.ad2cs.com
The GCARC 2025 Field Day event was quite successful despite the moderate heat, some light rain, some overnight fog, and the threat of thunderstorms. While the thunderstorms never materialized to any extent that affected our operation, we were nonetheless prepared with a safety plan in place should the worst have happened in that regard.
The 20 Meter Phone Team consisted of the following Club members :
- · Diane Amico W2WHD
- · Josh Boylan KE2FSC
- · Dan Caguiat KV2N
- · Kerri Caguiat K2CAG
- · Jon Davidson KE2DYD
- · Lee Hafele WA2LH
- · Earl Moore KD2NCH
- · Frank Parsinitz KD2GSY
- · Mike Pentimall KC3VTF
- · Mike Resnick N2WOQ
- · Randy Testa KC3VCC
While not all of the team members actually operated on-air, the contributions of every team member were invaluable, and our success would not have been possible if any one of this group of willing volunteers had not been there.
In addition to the listed team members, our team effort would have been in vain if not for the tremendous help offered by :
- · Mary Delemarre W2TDS
- · John O’Connell K2QA
- · Jon Pearce WB2MNF
- · Frank Romeo N3PUU
Mary was extremely generous in her donation to the team in the form of a tent and some furnishings. John provided our reflector mast, its cap, and its guy rings (more on the reflector mast later). Jon’s Honda generator was made available for our use. Frank provided advice, technical expertise, and generator management. All of these contributions were necessary in order for our team to be successful.
During Field Day 2024, the 20-meter phone team fought a long and hard uphill battle against overpowering signals in the 20-meter CW segment, which made it all but impossible to hear any incoming SSB communications. In spite of that problem, the team managed to make about 120 QSO’s. That problem led us to become innovative on our approach to Field Day 2025. A few months back, Frank Romeo N3PUU brought an article to my attention, in the belief that the article may have contained a potential solution to the CW QRM problem. After reading the article (whose source remained unknown to me until I began writing this article, but is now known to be Nelson Sollenberger KA2C, as found on www.ka2c.com) and doing some more research, I decided to attempt to build a filter that would notch out the CW segment of the 20-meter band, while offering minimal insertion loss to the phone segment of that band. That filter is the subject of a separate article, but it was an unknown entity prior to 1400 hrs local time on Saturday 28 June. At that time, we all went on the air, and the filter got its first real test.
I had tested the filter on the bench, and it had tuned up extremely well, but I was still unsure about just how well it might perform under real-world Field Day operating conditions. Suffice it to say that the filter was completely successful in blocking the 20-meter CW QRM that had plagued us last year. When combined with a 20-meter band-pass filter (Morgan Systems model M-407 - www.surgestop.com), we had the ideal filtering situation - only the phone segment of the 20-meter band would get through to our radio with any real signal strength.
We started out the day operating my Icom IC-718, which worked fairly well - better, I believe than the Icom IC-7300 had done last year. We stayed with the IC-718 until sundown, when I switched over to my Icom IC-746 PRO. It is my firm belief that the IC-746 PRO will be my primary Field Day radio for future events. In any case, the radio was supported by my MFJ-941E(K) Versa-Tuner II manual antenna tuner, which worked well. The reason that the MFJ-941E model number is appended by a “K” is because this tuner was built from a kit - the only tuner kit ever offered by MFJ, to the best of my knowledge.
Power was provided by one of my TekPower TP50SW 50-ampere power supply units. For grounding, we used a two-foot length of 1/2" copper pipe with ground wires leading off to each piece of radio equipment on the table. That copper pipe was in turn bonded to my Morgan Systems M302U lightning arrestor, which was bolted to a length of perforated steel angle stock that had been cut off at a point on one end. That end had been driven about thirty-six inches into the native soil of the site, just outside the tent entrance. Of course, the RG-213 coaxial cable feedline passed through the lightning arrestor as well as through the tuner and the two filter units.
Our rather unorthodox antenna was a setup suggested by Frank Romeo N3PUU. In our installation, we raised a standard Hustler 5BTV vertical antenna. We installed a radial plate on which twenty-nine (of the thirty-two available) radial attachment points each had a fifteen-foot radial wire attached, leaving a “three-wire” gap at the center of one edge of the radial plate. The radial wires were of stranded 12AWG wire, each equipped with an ounce of lead weight at its far end to help hold the wires in place on the grass. The plate-attached end of each wire had a 1/4” ring terminal crimped and soldered in place, and then sealed with heat-shrink tubing.
The arrangement of radial wires with the “three-wire” gap formed a “V”-shaped notch in the radial field. This notching of the radial field forms a null in the field, which then provides some directivity to the antenna’s radiation pattern, instead of the usual omni-directional pattern of a standard vertical antenna. This directivity was enhanced by a device that Frank had suggested - a vertical wire reflector placed at a fixed distance (0.2λ at 14.250MHz) from the base of the Hustler. This was accomplished by raising and guying a twenty-four foot tall mast at a point almost fourteen feet from the base of the antenna. To this mast was attached an additional radial wire, connected to the center of the “three-wire” gap in the radial plate, and extending up the full twenty-four foot height of the mast. This vertical radial wire forms an antenna reflector that enhances the directivity already begun by the radial field null. The result was an antenna with a pattern that strongly favored a direction 180° opposite that of the position of the reflector mast with respect to the antenna. In our case, the reflector was directly east of the antenna, causing our directional vertical antenna to strongly favor points west of the antenna’s location.
So… the question that begs being asked is “how did the antenna perform?” Well… all that I really have to go by is the results, as I never took the time to measure the radiation field with an RF field strength meter… but nevertheless, I believe that the results are fairly conclusive.
During the period when the entire country was on the air, we made absolutely zero QSO’s with any stations in FCC Areas 1, 2, and 3. In other words, no contact at all with stations to the east of our antenna location, nor with stations within about 450 miles to the west. All told, we accomplished a total of 123 QSO’s. It wasn’t until many stations dropped off the 20-meter band that we were able to score our first New England QSO, which just so happened to be with a special-event station W1M in Maine at 0809 hrs local time on Sunday.
Prior to the W1M QSO, we successfully worked station VY2PEI on Prince Edward Island (Canada) at 0754 hrs local, and station VE1LD in Nova Scotia (Canada) at 0800 hrs local. Shortly after reaching W1M, we also worked W1KJ in Maine at 0827 hrs local, K1RK in Eastern Massachusetts at 0859 hrs local, and then, apparently via ground wave, a special event station N2A in our own Section of SNJ at 0920 hrs local. Throughout the entire morning, we could hear another special event station N1M quite well, but we could never reach him to work him. However, having heard his QSO’s with other stations, it was clear that he was operating from within the EMA section.
All of this points out the basic directionality of our antenna system, with much better performance to the west than to the east. At one point, we actually made contact with a station in the Netherlands, but he was not working Field Day and had no interest in logging a DX QSO with us. However, we did work stations in both Alaska and Hawaii, as well as most of the western USA and even into British Columbia in Canada. In addition, we were quite successful into the deep south and even to Puerto Rico.
Did our activity really and truly reflect the operation of the antenna system? I believe that the operating statistics will clearly bear out the antenna report. The complete Operating Statistics for the GCARC 2025 20-meter Phone Team can be found in Appendix I at the end of this article.
Refer to the map at Figure 1 and the activity graph at Figure 2 for some more detail as to the patterns of coverage and active periods, respectively. This data was pulled from the available statistics area of the N3FJP ARRL Field Day Contest Log software, as were the statistics data provided in the appendix.
All things considered, we did the best that we could, given the relatively poor band conditions, and we did it without any CW QRM at all this year. That fact leads me to the belief that we, as a Club, should probably seriously consider constructing additional similar filters for the other bands on which we typically operate both CW and Phone teams. This concept is discussed further in my article that covers the construction and application of the filter.
Thank you to all of the 20-meter Phone team members who gave so unselfishly of their time to help us reach Field Day success this year. In addition, I extend my thanks to those supporters who were not directly members of the 20-meter Phone team but nonetheless helped us to reach our goal.
2025 Field Day Site Plan : Draft v1 : April 28, 2025
I took a cut at creating a draft of site plan for 2025 Field Day.
See pictures below.
Tried to take into consideration requests received so far, including :
- 5 stations that have asked for tree line to put up their antenna, so you will find those along the "tree line"
- 4 stations will be operated out of campers, with several camper owners having asked to have flat ground to set up on, so you will find those in the "back yard"
- Tried to minimize cross-band interference between stations through use of single band pass filters on antenna lines of each radio, along with distancing between radios
- Tried to minimize same-band interference between stations by trying to maximize separation between same-band CW, Digital, and Phone stations. Unfortunately, some interference is inevitable.
- As of today, there are 3 radios on 40M, 3 radios on 20M, and 2 radios on 15M. So if on one of those bands, going to have to work together to help minimize, perhaps through use of directional antennas, adjusting CW waveforms, using radios with highly rated front ends, reducing transmit power on CW and Digital, and/or other measures.
- At least we have both side yards and the back yard space to work with this year!
I'm sure there will have to be compromises and revisions, but at least with this draft we have a starting point. Let's continue to try and use email to work through things ahead of when we have our face-to-face meet at the June 7, 2025 Tech Saturday Forum.
I am looking forward to your comments.
Cheers,
Jim Wright N2GXJ
Save The Date - 4th Weekend in June (June 28-29)
By Jim Wright, N2GXJ
Always the 4th weekend in June, it’s not too early to save the date for ham radio on your calendars for the weekend of Saturday June 28. Why? Because that is the date of ARRL’s Radio Field Day weekend this year!
In case not familiar yet with Field Day, this is when tens of thousands of crazy hams like us set up off-the-grid with portable radios and antennas in fields all over the United States and Canada to try and make as many radio contacts as we can in 24 hours using Morse Code, Voice, and Digital modes.
As those who are familiar with Field Day can attest, Field Day is quite the event. Being part practice for emergency communications, part public relations, part informal contest, part educational opportunity, part campout, part picnic, part socializing, and a big part fun, many consider this the highlight of their entire radio year. You really owe it to yourself to come out to see it to believe it. So, please do! Save the date, then join us to give it a try.
How to get involved?
Suffice to say your Club is planning to be in on this event in a big way again this year. And for that, we want to encourage everyone to participate if they can in one way or another. Not only do we hope to make lots of radio contacts, we’d also like to go after lots of bonus point activities as well. And for that, we do need your help. Volunteers are needed in many areas. Please jump in! This is your chance to get involved. No prior experience required!
Here’s a sampling of areas for you to consider when looking for ways to get involved, and who to contact for more information. Perhaps you are able to help out?
So there it is, save the date - June 28 and 29, Field Day 2025. As a fellow Club member, please encourage everyone to come on out to help out where they can, but importantly, find a way to join in on the fun. Turns out that if you are remote or otherwise cannot make it to our W2MMD Field Day site in person, there may still be ways like last year for you to participate and have your contacts counted as part of an aggregate score for the Club. If you’ve any questions, don’t be shy to ask.
Again, everyone is welcome, with no prior experience required!
Hope to see you there! Respectfully, Jim (N2GXJ), your appointed 2025 FD chairman
By Jim Wright, N2GXJ
Always the 4th weekend in June, it’s not too early to save the date for ham radio on your calendars for the weekend of Saturday June 28. Why? Because that is the date of ARRL’s Radio Field Day weekend this year!
In case not familiar yet with Field Day, this is when tens of thousands of crazy hams like us set up off-the-grid with portable radios and antennas in fields all over the United States and Canada to try and make as many radio contacts as we can in 24 hours using Morse Code, Voice, and Digital modes.
As those who are familiar with Field Day can attest, Field Day is quite the event. Being part practice for emergency communications, part public relations, part informal contest, part educational opportunity, part campout, part picnic, part socializing, and a big part fun, many consider this the highlight of their entire radio year. You really owe it to yourself to come out to see it to believe it. So, please do! Save the date, then join us to give it a try.
How to get involved?
Suffice to say your Club is planning to be in on this event in a big way again this year. And for that, we want to encourage everyone to participate if they can in one way or another. Not only do we hope to make lots of radio contacts, we’d also like to go after lots of bonus point activities as well. And for that, we do need your help. Volunteers are needed in many areas. Please jump in! This is your chance to get involved. No prior experience required!
Here’s a sampling of areas for you to consider when looking for ways to get involved, and who to contact for more information. Perhaps you are able to help out?
- Culinary Staff : Jeff Garth WB2ZBN has volunteered to be our Field Day Culinary Service Coordinator again this year. He’s looking for culinary staff volunteers to help with the Field Day food and with maintaining the water coolers during the event (note to all : the 4H fairground property where our Clubhouse sits is all strictly non-alcoholic. Please do not bring any). If you are able and would like to volunteer, please contact Jeff direct. His number is in the Club directory. He’s looking forward to your call!
- Public Relations Bonus Points Coordinator : I’m still looking for someone to work with as our Field Day public relations bonus points coordinator. Could this be you? This person would coordinate with other Club members to get a site visit by invited elected official bonus, to get a site visit by invited served agency official bonus, to get the social media with evidence bonus, to get the media publicity with evidence bonus, and to plan for and run our on-site information booth as a bonus to welcome the public and introduce visitors to all that we are doing during this event. Please contact me (Jim Wright, N2GXJ) if you can help us be the point person to help coordinate getting these available bonus points. Your help would be most appreciated!
- Bonus Educational Activity Coordinator : There’s a 100 point bonus for hosting a formal educational activity during the Field Day. See the Field Day packet for some suggestions. Anyone able to help us out here? Please let me (Jim, N2GXJ) know if you will. Thanks!
- Bonus Message Handling Activities Coordinator : Karl Frank W2KBF has already agreed to help us get bonus points for formal message sent to ARRL SNJ Section Manager, and for additional formal NTS/ICS-213 messages to be sent via radio from the Field Day site. But there’s another 100 bonus points available if we can receive and provide a copy of the W1AW Field Day bulletin that will be broadcast from ARRL headquarters. We need someone to coordinate getting a copy of that bulletin to provide with our bonus point evidence this year. The bulletin is repeated in several modes, so more than one volunteer can step forward here to help ensure we get a copy of the message to submit this year. Can you do this for us? If yes, please let me (Jim, N2GXJ) know if you will. Thank you!
- Field Day Scoring Coordinator : We need someone to ensure all the station logs are collected before the sites shut down after lunch on Sunday so that we can compute our claimed score ahead of the July 2, 2025 General Membership Meeting. And then we need them to upload our claimed score and required documentation to the ARRL ahead of their deadline so that our effort will get listed in the December 2025 QST publication. Can you do this for us? If yes, please let me (Jim, N2GXJ) know.
- Deputy Safety Officer : Herb Dyer KT2Y will be our on-site safety officer, responsible for inspections and the bonus safety checklist. Herb, who has served in this role before and has graciously agreed to take on the role again this year, will be driving up from Florida where he lives to be part of our Field Day this year. To help him out, I would like to appoint a deputy safety officer this year to help with coverage for the multi-day Field Day event, and learn the ropes from him. Could this be you? Please contact Herb direct if you can help out.
- Station Chairs and Their Radio Teams : This is where the majority of help for Field Day is needed. Putting multiple radios on the air simultaneously at Field Day to cover different band-modes is what we do. And that takes a lot of coordination and people to pull this off. Most of our claimed score comes from our Club’s efforts here. And there are bonus points to be had too. Did you know in addition to any points scored for each contact made from those stations we can also get another 100 bonus points for each radio we can put on the air simultaneously (up to 20)? And there are additional bonus points available when operators 18 years and younger make contacts, and for recently licensed or generally inactive hams who make contacts from our get on the air bonus station. Suffice to say there are multiple opportunities to contribute to our Club’s on-the-air QSO count this year, if you care to join in.
- So, what stations do we have lined up so far to operate? As of this writing, we have 9 stations so far, with Station Chairs (Owners) and band-mode assignments as shown below. As updates come available, I’ll have Jeff post them to our Field Day 2025 page at w2mmd.org
- Karl Frank W2KBF : GOTA bonus station with coach, HF Phone (voice)
- Herb Dyer KT2Y : Natural power bonus station and 2M/70CM Phone (voice)
- John O'Connell K2QA : Satellite bonus station
- Tony Starr K3TS : 20M CW
- Sheldon Parker K2MEN : 40M CW
- Darrell Neron AB2E : 80M (night) and 15M (Day) CW
- Jim Wright N2GXJ : 10M Phone (voice)
- Chris Prioli AD2CS : 20M Phone (voice)
- Bill Price NJ2S : 40M SSB Phone (voice)
- Considering participating by helping out at one or more of these stations as a member of that station’s radio team? As you can imagine, station chairs are always looking for volunteers to help them with their stations, from setup, to teardown, to operating in shifts, and for everything in between. Please contact station chairs direct with any questions, and to help out on their teams.
- Considering bringing your own radio to Field Day this year to be your own station chair? Please contact me (Jim, N2GXJ), and I’ll help coordinate and get you a spot on the Field, if you want to give it a try.
So there it is, save the date - June 28 and 29, Field Day 2025. As a fellow Club member, please encourage everyone to come on out to help out where they can, but importantly, find a way to join in on the fun. Turns out that if you are remote or otherwise cannot make it to our W2MMD Field Day site in person, there may still be ways like last year for you to participate and have your contacts counted as part of an aggregate score for the Club. If you’ve any questions, don’t be shy to ask.
Again, everyone is welcome, with no prior experience required!
Hope to see you there! Respectfully, Jim (N2GXJ), your appointed 2025 FD chairman
Field Day : June 28 - 29, 2025 |
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| Field Day Chairman : Jim Wright N2GXJ jim.n2gxj(at)gmail(dot)com Chart updated as of May 09, 2025 |
Field Day : June 28 - 29, 2025 |
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| Rules Section | Support Staff / Bonus Points | Primary Contact | Points Available |
| Field Day Chairman : Jim Wright N2GXJ jim.n2gxj(at)gmail(dot)com Chart updated as of May 09, 2025 |
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| Donation | Name |
| Hot Dogs and Hamburgers | Kathy Romeo |
| Rolls - Hot Dogs & Hamburgers | |
| Verchio's Hoagies (6) Hoagies Ordered June 14, 2025 Kathy will pick up Saturday 28th AM |
Kathy Romeo |
| Hot Roast Beef & Gravy / Rolls | Kathy Romeo |
| Hot Turkey & Gravy / Rolls | Kathy Romeo |
| Potato Salad | |
| Pasta Salad | |
| Macaroni Salad | |
| 6 Dozen Eggs | |
| Deviled Eggs | |
| Baked Beans | |
| Sausage/Peppers/Rolls | |
| Water Bottles | Glen Guenther KE2BUO |
| (50) Breakfast Sausage | |
| (30) Hash Browns | |
| Lettuce, Tomatoes, Onions (Sliced) | |
| 3 lbs American Cheese | Kathy Romeo |
| Potato Chips & Pretzels | |
| Ice (Needed for both days) | |
| BBQ Operators | |
| Desserts | Marie Farney Melissa Guenther KE2BWZ Glen Guenther KE2BUO |
| Kitchen Helpers | Kathy Romeo Jonathan Romeo Lou Delemarre & Mary Delemarre W2TDS |
Updated As Of June 09, 2025 |
Eligibility : Field Day is open to all amateurs in the areas covered by the ARRL/RAC Field Organizations and countries within IARU Region 2. DX stations residing in other regions may be contacted for credit and may submit entries as check-logs.
Object : To work as many stations as possible on the 160-, 80-, 40-, 20-, 15- and 10-Meter HF bands, as well as all bands 50 MHz and above, and in doing so to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less-than-optimal conditions. A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness as well as to acquaint the general public with the capabilities of Amateur Radio.
Object : To work as many stations as possible on the 160-, 80-, 40-, 20-, 15- and 10-Meter HF bands, as well as all bands 50 MHz and above, and in doing so to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less-than-optimal conditions. A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness as well as to acquaint the general public with the capabilities of Amateur Radio.
W2MMD Clubhouse
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GPS Heading : 39.717000°, -75.209950°
A : Turn off of Route 77 ; B : Turn left into Clubhouse Field Site ; C : W2MMD Clubhouse