Covid-19 has scuppered our field day outings to the Lavender Field but there’s plenty of replacement activity available. We had an enjoyable VHF Field Day last year and, for 2020 only, this has been re-badged as Lockdown VHF NFD, for fixed (i.e. home) location, single operator stations only. This still allows team entries and BARC will be participating. The contest will be held next weekend (4/5th July) and we are hoping that club members will help us beat the 200 contacts amassed last year. If you are a newcomer to contesting, or haven’t participated for a while, why not give it a go? We might be lacking the fresh air and sunburn, but you can always throw open the shack window and there will be a plentiful supply of coffee/tea to hand.
Timings are as follows – all times are clock time (BST)
Saturday 4th July
3 pm to 5 pm for 6m and 6 pm to 8 pm for 4m
Sunday 5th July
9 am to 11 am for 70cm and noon to 3pm for 2m (Also 6 am to 8 am for the early-birders with 23 cm kit)
Permitted modes of operation are SSB, CW, FM, AM, JT6M, ISCAT and FSK441
You don’t need to register and, provided you are a BARC member and supporting the club entry, you do not need to be a member of the RSGB. There’s a maximum of 4 members per team so please stick your hand up so that we can organise teams to best advantage. Hopefully we can field two or more teams.
The full set of rules can be found at rsgbcc.org/vhf/rules/2020/VHFNFD.shtml
This a once-off opportunity (we don’t want to go through all this again!) so why not give it a go?
73s
Paul G4CSD
basingstokearc.co.uk 