Picture is worth a 1000 words ... documenting extras for FD entry.
Lars Andersen
Park in Brookline is a public park, a former mansion's grounds deeded to the town. The mansion's site itself is
now a parking lot surrounded by patios and lawns. Although the park normally closes at sundown, we annually get
permission to camp overnight for Field Day. To the left is the view from one HF antenna's down-lead, near the VHF
tent, up towards the parking lot, food prep area, and the R7.
The side-view
shows more of the park's architectural beauty. In the foreground is our grill station. The self-supporting tarps
are the logistics and public information "tents". The yellow-tape in the far right, in front of the arcade,
is the generator corner of the parking lot (sited on the far-side from the exposure to the nearest neighbors).
For
completeness, another picture taken from about the same spot near the food-area but looking further left, shows
from left to right, a camping tent (yellow, rear), the VHF halos & station tent, a camping tent, the blue-and-white
pavilion for 2 HF stations, and the third HF station tent.
We use
one of our "easy-ups" and banner to make an attractive information booth, which also has the 2m FM "talk
in" station -- not a contest station, but handling the "logistics net" on the club repeater, and
SKYWARN coordination. The tall-ships poster is on the "go-kit" containing the talk-in radio and public-safety
radios. Our 2m FM Simplex contacts (aside from solar) were on a second rig from this table, which rig was also
used to pass SKYWARN traffic to another FD site that was in the watch/warning area.
In the rear are the white easy-up logistics store and the blue-and-white banquet
tent that held two HF stations.
Main black&red
generator in rear, smaller green spare in foreground, not showing portable lighting plant (that ran coffee maker
too). Tent in background (south loge) is AMSAT contingent.
The
south lawn is home to the satellite operation, provided by N1HID and KD1NX. Their fully automated data-mode station
has fully automated tracking with dual-band circularly polarized yagis on az-el rotator. No voice or cw contacts
were attempted by sat this year. PacSat contacts were made on three birds, KO-23 :17 (14+self in zip, including
Singapore, Canada, England), KO-25 :14 (13+self, including Singapore again and Canada), UO-22 :15 (13 in zip, US
and Singapore only), for a total of 46 reported (42 in zips).
KA1MOM shot this attractive sunset shot of the satellite array.
Upload, as downloaded from KO-25 (others differed by timestamp):
From: W1BOS
To: ALL
Subject: Fielday 2000
Keywords: <W> W1BOS
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To : ALL
From: W1BOS
Time: 195444UTC
Date: 24 Jun 2000
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Hello ALL,
good luck and happy fielday from Lars Anderson Park Brookline Massachusetts 6A W1BOS
Photos by KA1TUZ and KA1MOM.
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