HOTARC Field Day 2014

ARRL Field Day 2014

On Saturday-Sunday, June 28-29, 2014 HOTARC participated in a national annual special event sponsored by the ARRL. Field Day is an annual event when ham radio operators across the country set up "emergency operations" and contact as many other stations as possible in a contest-like fashion. (Watch the 30-sec video below for a quick look.) HOTARC's Field Day activities began at 9:30 AM Saturday, when we�in just a couple hours�erected an emergency operations communications center with three stations capable of world-wide communications. Starting at 1 PM, we operated those stations�without commercial electricity, continuously, for 24 hours�wrapping up operations at 1 PM on Sunday. We set up our communications site at Warren Park, in Hewitt, TX, demonstrating our ham radio skills in action, enjoying food/fellowship with fellow hams, and gladly helping interested visitors talk into a ham radio microphone�many for the first time�to someone on the opposite side of the country. Being a national contest event, we kept records of all our contacts and submitted the data to the ARRL. In past years, HOTARC has been a top performer in north Texas.

Photos from Field Day 2014 (click for larger images)
HOTARC Trailer	Setting up Generator	Warren Park	HOTRAC Trailer	40m vertical ant
Trailer with HF beam ant	Scouts taking break	HF Contesting	GOTA station HF ant	GOTA station
ARRL Visitors	Doc Anderson visiting	GOTA station w/ visitors	2014 FD Poster	2014 FD Banner