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Outing (to be) held from 14:00 on 2012/07/07 - 14:00 on 2012/07/08 in/on Off A339 Northwest of Basingstoke

This is the page for the 2012 VHF National Field Day.

We have put in a joint application with Basingstoke ARC, they will be using their club call on 4m and 6m, we will be using G3KMI/P on 2m and 70cm.

Plan

Thursday Night - Meeting

Go through kit list to see if we've forgotten anything/everything.
Power - do we have the right/enough cables for everything.
Plan assembling of kit on Friday.

Friday Night

Assemble as much kit as possible into Phil's car, the rest into Morse's car.
Food run to asda?

Saturday

Phil will take car up, pick Henry up from Basingstoke station at 8:40 and aim to be on-site by 9am.
Morse will follow with Chris O and Chris P.
Contest starts at 3pm local time.

Sunday

Morning - G3KMI HF Net - Andrew, Graeme?
3pm Contest Ends

I propose we have an evening early next week where we get together and clean the tents/tarps, as many do not belong to us and we'd like to be able to borrow them in the future!

Location

We will be sharing a site used by the Basingstoke ARC, the site is ~160m ASL and has great views from north-west through to south-east. There is a remote station on the same hill that regularly gets 10GHz contacts with Germany.

Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/77TG

Bands

We will be operating on 2m and 70cm as completely separate stations, both using the G3KMI/P callsign.

2m

FT897 All-mode
100W Amp + Pre-amp
Yagi + 10m mast

70cm

FT897 All-mode
50W Amp + Masthead pre-amp
Yagi + 10m mast

People

Please fill in below when you can come along to help! We will want to get there at about 0900 on Saturday to be ready for the start of the contest.

Phil - All Weekend
Chris O - All Weekend
Henry - All Weekend
Chris P = All Weekend
Morse - Sat until 2/3am

Equipment

See Kit List.

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-|location=Location to be confirmed
+|location=Off A339 Northwest of Basingstoke
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 This is the page for the 2012 VHF National Field Day.
-<strike>Our application has to be in by Friday 29th June.</strike> - Joint Application is in.
+We have put in a joint application with [http://www.basingstokearc.co.uk/ Basingstoke ARC], they will be using their club call on 4m and 6m, we will be using G3KMI/P on 2m and 70cm.
+== Plan ==
+Thursday Night - Meeting
+* Go through kit list to see if we've forgotten anything/everything.
+* Power - do we have the right/enough cables for everything.
+* Plan assembling of kit on Friday.
+Friday Night
+* Assemble as much kit as possible into Phil's car, the rest into Morse's car.
+* Food run to asda?
+Saturday
+* Phil will take car up, pick Henry up from Basingstoke station at 8:40 and aim to be on-site by 9am.
+* Morse will follow with Chris O and Chris P.
+* Contest starts at 3pm local time.
+Sunday
+* Morning - G3KMI HF Net - Andrew, Graeme?
+* 3pm Contest Ends
+I propose we have an evening early next week where we get together and clean the tents/tarps, as many do not belong to us and we'd like to be able to borrow them in the future!
 == Location ==
-<strike>
-A location suggested by Chris G3WIE is a lay-by on Lanes End Down ([http://goo.gl/maps/567X Google Streetview]), Ted G3XUX uses this location to run a 4m net on Sunday mornings and says it works well, unfortunately the site is unsuitable for any guyed mast.
-Ted has suggested that we could approach 'The Milburys' ([http://www.themilburyspub.co.uk/ website]) a pub near to the first site with a small field out of the back that is advertised as available for Club meetings and would work well for putting up the mast. There would also be a good nearby source of food and drink!
+We will be sharing a site used by the Basingstoke ARC, the site is ~160m ASL and has great views from north-west through to south-east. There is a remote station on the same hill that regularly gets 10GHz contacts with Germany.
-</strike>
-We will be sharing a site with Basingstoke ARC and operating under their name, but with our callsign (G3KMI/P) on 2m and 70cm. The site ha been reccied and is 'ideal' - great views to north-west through south-east.
+* Google Maps: [http://goo.gl/maps/77TG http://goo.gl/maps/77TG]
 == Bands ==
-We will be operating 2m and 70cm, maybe with Phil's rigs, or possibly using 2 borrowed FT-897s.
+We will be operating on 2m and 70cm as completely separate stations, both using the G3KMI/P callsign.
+====2m====
+* FT897 All-mode
+* 100W Amp + Pre-amp
+* Yagi + 10m mast
+====70cm====
+* FT897 All-mode
+* 50W Amp + Masthead pre-amp
+* Yagi + 10m mast
 == People ==
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 == Equipment ==
-* 2x Mast - Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.
+See [https://www.thecraag.com/pad/ro/r.pnVUK0cxg2EtY9BZ Kit List].
-* Coax - Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.
-* 2m 7ele yagi - Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.
-* 70cm 17ele yagi - Phil / Supplied by Basingstoke ARC.
-* 2m multimode + 100W amp - Phil
-* 70cm multimode + 50W amp - Phil
-* HF Rig + antenna - ????
-* 30Ah of small batteries (chargeable off car) - Phil
-* 3G dongle + laptop + router - Phil
-* Stove + gas - Phil
-* Food + water - ????