Summer Field Day 2024

Summer Field Day is June 22th & 23th
Operations 11am Sat – 11am Sun

Join us at McSweeney Park for for our summer field day event.
McSweeney Parkway, Hemet, CA 92543.

No club membership is required and all are welcome! Bring friends and family.

There will be testing Saturday morning at 9am.

Some of the Raffle Prizes

6 Great prizes and great odds!

We are lagging in our projected ticket sales. That means your odds are better than they should be. Check out our new and nifty ticket mixer. Then buy some tickets at our club meeting. Thank You & Good Luck!

Items so far:

  • 1 Yaesu FTM-200
  • 1 Yaesu 70D & PiStar Combo Prize
  • 1 Yaesu 70D & PiStar Combo Prize (70D donated by N6DMP & PiStar donated by KN6RBP).
  • 1 In House built open stub jpole
  • 1 In House built open stub jpole
  • ARRL Antenna Book

Tickets are:

  • $ 5.00 = 1 Ticket
  • $20.00 = 5 Tickets
  • $40.00 = 12 Tickets
  • $50.00 = 15 Tickets
  • $100.00 = 35 Tickets

Tickets will be available at any LDARC event. Or call KN6MJS.

We’ll have 3 HF stations in operation and a GOTA station. We will operate Phone and FT8 on all eligible bands.

Join us in the morning on Saturday for breakfast. We’ll have Breakfast Burritos! Prepared fresh on-site. Tickets are $10 per person.

We are there setting up at 7am. Come early and help out. See how antenna systems are set up. It’s fun and much appreciated. The more the merrier as they say. If you can come early please let us know during this net if possible.

There will also be demonstrations throughout the day, like HT antenna testing, Satellite communications, Antenna Tuning with Nano VNA, FT8 operations, and of course, Phone contacting and logging.

We’ll enjoy Hamburgers & Hot Dogs on Saturday for lunch.
Tickets are $5 for 1 hamburger or 2 hot dogs.

For dinner we’ll have Carne Asada tacos. 2 for $5.

Then we make contacts all night. We’re always a bit short on operators over night so that’s a great time to come out as well.

On Sunday morning we’ll have Breakfast Croissants. Tickets for those are $5.

Water as well as a diluted Gatorade mix will be available throughout our time there. As well as restroom’s during the day and a commercial portapotty for use overnight.

  • Brad Genco – Upgrade to General
  • Mary Ortiz – Technician
  • Charles Balancio – Technician
  • William Clem – Technician


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3 Responses to Summer Field Day 2024

  1. Dealy says:

    How do I access the Field Day log???? If it’s the download shown on this website, that does not work-just get an error on my IMAC and PC?????

    • Duane Deaton says:

      Ken, I have Windows 11, and the link works fine for me. The file is a pdf. Since you have a Mac, I am not sure why it doesn’t work. I will email a PDF copy to you.
      Duane KN6AUV

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