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FD-2011 Schedule |
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| Prior to 24June |
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Verify Coax runs are sufficient and in excellent condition |
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| 24 June - Friday |
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Noon |
Lunch at BBs |
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1:30 PM |
Arrive at Site |
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2:00 PM |
Start Work |
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1 - Locate & Mark Tower and Station positions
- Verify & Point-Out Markings |
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2 - Locate support trees for wire antennas
- Shoot support lines mark and tie off to trees. |
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5:30PM |
VE Team leaves for Holyoke |
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8:00PM |
VE Team returns
to Dufresne Park with beverages and pizza! |
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8:00PM |
Copy FD Bulletin in CW |
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9:00PM |
Copy FD Bulletin in RTTY |
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9:45PM |
Copy FD Bulletin in Phone |
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11:00PM |
Copy FD Bulletin in CW |
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| 25 June - Saturday |
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6:00AM |
Arrive at Dufresne to start setup. Meet and signoff with the park officials
for the park. |
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9:00AM |
1 - Erect AB-577 launchers |
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2 - Assemble beam antennas |
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mount beam antennas to towers and raise to 50' |
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3 - Erect 40M Phone Moxon |
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4 - Erect 40M CW
Moxon |
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5 - Erect 75M Dipole |
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6 - Locate generators and run power cables |
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11:00 AM |
1. Band Captains erect their housing & install radios, power supplies and
all creature comforts. |
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2. Hand out bandpass filters & verify N1MM on all logging computers. |
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Noon |
Antenna work completed |
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Station housing work completed |
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Lunch Time!
Finish setup, fire up generators and test stations |
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1:00 PM |
1. Install computers & software - test for proper operation |
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2. Determine class of operation and notify all band captains |
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3. Label outside of all stations with band/mode info for visitors |
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4. Test all radios and check for inter-station interference |
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2:00PM |
Operation Starts |
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5:00PM |
Supper |
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| 26 June - Sunday |
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7:00AM |
Breakfast |
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Noon |
Lunch |
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1:00AM |
Start tearing down non-operating stations, demos, displays |
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2:00PM |
Operation Stops,
Raffle is held & Teardown starts |
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- Clean park, dispose of trash, police all the grounds.
- Maybe we should have a separate crew for this.
- It's trying for the tower tear down people to have to pick up trash as
all the rest of the crew bails out and runs for home. |
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Notify park maintenance to check site and sign us out. |
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4:00PM |
Teardown completed , park condition signed off, All leave site |
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73… |
Another fun Field Day for the record books! - Thanks!!! |
