Making Field Day 2022 for Members

Posted 30 May 2022 in news; tagged with events, news

A dedicated core crew now guides the work, and we have approval to move to Oak Park to use the DSA Power Pack for Field Day 2022. Parks Board Events granted our request to share Oak Park with another booking. We are moving forward with a broader planning meeting on June 8.

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Our hypothesis for doing Field Day is that VECTOR members enjoy coming together for it. We also believe members will make a VECTOR Field Day happen.

Members make Field Day. VECTOR’s Field Day has always been about members: to come together, to practice creating a remote station, and for public recognition.

We have a strong set of “modules” VECTOR can set up for Field Day. Decades of Field Day events has helped VECTOR collect resources suitable as “building blocks” for Field Day. We also have notes and sketches that give us a large jump-start.

What would our Field Day be like if we had a core crew that would energize and guide our efforts while the board takes care of its responsibilities in other parts of VECTOR?

Let’s make Field Day 2022 about you (the members). The ARRL definition for field day allows us huge leeway. This year, we might have time to do it in a way that serves members better.

ARRL: Field Day is a picnic, a campout, practice for emergencies, an informal contest and, most of all, FUN!

For the few years before the Pandemic, the board had started to lose faith that members enjoyed Field Day. The Board also noticed that the key aspect for members was the time spent with other members.

Let’s run a field day members can enjoy.

• Join the current conversation in Loomio.
• Join the invitation list for the meeting on 2022-06-08.

Follow-up Notes and Links

1. We are going to challenge ourselves with a new setup location and smaller footprint.

2. With a couple of members working together to plan and rig it, we will run one HF station and a Get On The Air station

3. The ramp up is on Loomio, which accepts the same login that you use for Google, or get set up via your regular email address

4. The 2022 crew chooses to pursue the following aspects of Field Day:

   • a picnic with radios
   • a simulated emergency where we set up a remote station with HF capability

5. We only have 3 weekends to get organized