Amateur Radio Field Day June 23-24, 2012
Location: Saanich Historical Artifacts Society, 7321 Lochside Dr. Victoria BC Canada
Field Day Report 2011
The Field Day committee would like to thank all those who came out to Field Day. Whether you came out to be involved, or, to visit. There were approximately 150 people in total over the two days. Included in that number were children, grandchildren and a great grandchild (Future Hams?), also members of the general public. The Victoria New Horizons Amateur Radio club provided pizza for lunch, WARA provided a pot luck supper.
While the exact numbers are not yet known there were 324 CW (morse code) contacts and 219 Phone contacts along with several Packet contacts. With everything considered this is the best field day in recent memory. Given the amount of contact on CW, and voice and the number of people including the general public coming out to it. It will be interesting to see if we can do even better next year.
June 27, 2011:
Field Day 2011 has passed by!
It was a super event attended by over 150 people in the two days.
More to follow and pictures too !
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Westcoast Amateur Radio and The New Horizons Amateur Radio Association will be hosting Field Day at the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society ( www.shas.ca) June 25-26 2011.
Check out the website for the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society ( www.shas.ca) for directions to the site. Also consider bringing the family out, the location is very pleasant for a family outing.
We look forward to seeing any amateurs interested in any part of the field day activities.
 2011 antenna position planning.
 cord launcher for wire antennas into trees.  Fuel and generator for radios  Setting up the computer logging network.  Setting up the wire antenna, Horizontal loop 250 metres.  On the air, making CW contacts.  Making 15 m contacts.  Here comes the chili !
 Making CW contacts.  HF station. Field DAY Antenna systems are built on site in approximately 2 hours.
1. Horizontal wire antenna triangle loop, using about 800 feet of wire. (250 metres). Feed with twin lead and tuner.
2. Vertical triangle wire loop antenna and tuner.
3. VHF and UHF yagis.
4. HF dipole antenna and tuner.
Next year additions:
1. PSK31 digital HF mode
2. ????
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