I want to thank everyone who helped with Winter Field Day 2024. NCRC operated 1O phone only (1 station, outdoors) this year instead of the usual 2O phone & CW. We completed 748 HF Contacts, 1 satellite QSO, and sent and received 1 Winlink Message. We did not have the best weather this year. Weather was fine on Saturday, but Sunday was raining all day and cold. However, it was nice and cozy in ticket booth shack. Midnight to 8 am we had no operators so we had to shut down the station. Again, Thank You to all.
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Dave Neal W2DAN
Category Archives: Winter Field Day
Willy W1LY Featured in The Jamestown Press
Willy W1LY was featured on page 11 of the February 9th edition of The Jamestown Press, in a nice story that described his entry into the hobby, as well as the club’s activities during JOTA, WFD and SFD. Our thanks to The Jamestown Press, and of course to Willy, a tireless member of our club who represents the best of what Amateur Radio is all about!
To see the entire article, please click on this link: W1LY & WFD
WFD 2023 – It’s a wrap!
24 continuous hours of W1SYE ops at Glen Park concluded at 2:00pm Sunday, January 29th. 45 minutes later, HF station, tent, antenna, generator and all ancillary equipment was stowed away for next year. Many hands make light work!
Roughly 925 QSOs were made using phone, CW and digital modes. Nine bands were worked: 160m, 80, 40, 20, 15, 6, 2, 70cm and 2.4 GHz. Just for good measure (and bonus points), three SSB SATCOM contacts were thrown in as well.
The weather fully cooperated this year with a high of 52F around 2:00pm Saturday and a low of 37F about dawn Sunday. Contrast this with temps in the low teens with 2 feet of snow on the ground reported by one VT station.
Thanks to all who participated in any way, shape, or form. 73
WFD 2023 is live on-the-air!
Join Winter Field Day this weekend anytime from 2:00 Saturday until 2:00pm Sunday for 20 minutes or 2 hours or the whole 24 hours – it’s up to you!!!
- Club Station: Anyone is welcome to stop by Glen Park, Portsmouth, RI and visit the competitive tent-bound club station operating as W1SYE for 24 hours straight. Carl KC1NAM will be there doing satellite setup and operating in his ham-van on Saturday from Noon to dusk – clearly visible. Operations at GLEN PARK are in a field on Barker Lane, which is off Glen Rd, which is off East Main Rd opposite Anna D’s Café near the Green Grocer in Portsmouth, RI. (Or other local or RI landmarks or where they used to be, depending on many things.)
- Solo Ops: NCRC encourages all club members to use their own call sign and make at least a few contacts sometime this weekend on 2m Simplex or HF. A battery-powered handheld radio contact made outdoors is one easy way to be 1O-RI (ONE OUTDOOR RI) and get in the logbooks. Invite your friends and XYLs to get on the radio too. From her 1H-RI UHF/VHF base station, Nancy KC1NEK will be welcoming all Simplex calls Saturday 2-5pm and Sun 10-Noon. You can pre-program your radio to these good Simplex channels to know in our area and test your reach:
W1SYE Simplex 146.55; RI-ARES Simplex 147.420; 70cm option 446.1
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- Some of the setup crew
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- Inside the contest station tent
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- Satellite station
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- Don’t get between me and my bird (i.e., satellite).
Winter Field Day 2023 – January 28th & 29th
Participating in Winter Field Day is a great way to start 2023. Newport County (RI) Radio Club has mapped out two paths to get involved.
First, using the club W1SYE call sign, NCRC will be operating a competitive HF station outdoors at Glen Park (exchange “1O RI”) and submitting a collective club score to Winter Field Day. Plans to make a satellite contact are also underway.
Second, NCRC is offering another curated path for solo operators who want to participate in WFD operating under your own call sign. Hoping club members will monitor the W1SYE Repeater and W1SYE Simplex frequency of 146.55 MHz during WFD to help other hams make at least one Simplex QSO as part of Winter Field Day 2023. (It’s so easy to forget how to move between the Repeater and a new or even programmed Simplex channel!) WFD is here to help.
Please follow #WFD23 for updates.
For details contact President@w1sye.org
