The South Holston Amateur Radio Club will be hosting a Field Operations Event on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at Hungry Mother State Park in Marion, VA.
Folks from the SHARC club will begin arriving prior to 10AM to claim and begin a warming fire at a camp shelter, with exact location inside the park to be determined. By 10AM, we should be in place at a shelter, with Mac (KI4AMD) manning a nice warming campfire. Please use 146.535Mhz as a talk-in frequency upon your arrival to the park and we can assist you with finding where we are.
POTA activation activities will begin when we are set up (Parks On The Air). Feel free to join us to observe or bring your own equipment and participate. Utility power may or may not be available, so be prepared to provide your own power. At 2PM, the WFD (Winter Field Day) event operations will begin. Winter Field Day is a nationally-recognized ARRL sanctioned event. The ARRL defines the operating guidelines and rules. SHARC is still working on ironing out the details on how we will operate as a group for Winter Field Day.
Attendees should bring their own lunch and refreshments.
The club also plans to meet to have a lunch meeting where we will make final plans for this Saturday's event at 1PM on Thursday, Jan 25, 2024 at Bella's in Abingdon.
More information about POTA (Parks On The Air) can be found here: https://parksontheair.com/
More information about WFD (Winter Field Day) can be found here: https://winterfieldday.org/
Feel free to reply to this forum post if you have any questions. You may all contact Travis Dyson at 276-492-8204 or by emailing tadyson@outlook.com.
Thank you!
Thank you to those who attended our Winter Field Day event at Hungry Mother Park on Saturday, January 27! We got a couple of POTA activations in before the WFD actually began at 2PM - and then we operated until about 5:30PM and were able to make several contacts. I have posted some photos below. I look forward to it again next year!
I intend to be beaconing on APRS as well as monitoring 146.535 as I set up at the shelter. Hopefully, I'll be easy to find. My goal is to get into shelter 2. ETA: My callsign is KI4AMD, look for KI4AMD-7 on your APRS enabled rig or at https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=12&call=a%2FKI4AMD-7&timerange=86400&tail=86400