The Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society has been operating the A.R.R.L. annual Field Day exercise for many years now, there have been some difficult achievements earned along the way. In 1970 the club was honored with the hard earned World Championship status, in 1978 - 79 - 80 and 81 the Great Lakes Division Champions, in 1982 again World Champions and CQ-WW 160 World Champions, CQ-WW-WPX World Champions, ARRL Sweepstakes CW National Champions. The N.O.A.R.S. entry in the A.R.R.L. 1997 Field Day exercise after auditing results with K8KRG capturing 1ST place in 6A-OH, many people had a hand in making this a success.
Beginning with Tracy N8YPT for negotiating another year of usage at the site and interfacing with the radio manufacturers, Harry KA8ZDW for his generous donation of an electrical circuit breaker cabinet ( the breakers are fine, it was the transformer that smoked us out during a dinner break! ), Glen N8AKS and Frank KB8IOM for helping procure wiring to the refrigerator, lights and fans, Fred W8ADW for a donation of coaxial cabling that measured too short to use at the submarine U.S.S. Cod, Ken KA8PMI and his Demolay helpers for getting the wiring in place on time, Jeff KG8XU and Barb KB8VMU who came prepared for poor weather with their family camper containing their computerized radio set-up, Mike KB8VKF with his carry-along radio box with computerized logging (200+ QSO's per hour!), Don N8QCA who brought along a 20 mtr station with tower and beam antenna, Stan AA8IN who helped set up other stations before discovering that a misplaced adapter would prevent him from operating his new radio (he had lost valuable real-estate in the antenna farm arena and found interfering signals overpowering, but he did get to try out his new rig afterall), Jon WD8IQJ and DeeDee KA8VTS who arrived with 10 meter novice station and beam antenna system, Andy N8OFS and Ben SWL (he passed his technician class test elements after field day and is now KC8IHF) who operated VHF FM and served as a talk-in station to some of our guests, and many others who just came to help out.
N.O.A.R.S. will be operating Field Day at the Lorain County Equestrian Center the 4th weekend in June, this event is open to the public and we encourage visitors to stop in. The Equestrian Center is about 1.4 miles south of Ohio Rt. 10 (continuation of I-480) at the Ohio Rt. 301 south interchange, on the west side of Nickel Plate - Diagonal Road, the pavilion is about 0.7 miles into the park. Click here for Field Day 2000 page with map
This page you are viewing now is dedicated to the hard working bunch of girls, guys and helpers of all ages that seem to appear just to have fun and maybe try out a different mode or just hop into the heat of battle, operating skills are always made a little sharper as a result of interacting with the many types of technology used to make the contacts quickly and efficiently. This event actually begins with some volunteering of man power and equipment, and when you have people you must have food as well as liquid refreshments and we try to mix in some activity like dropping ice cubes on bare feet for fun, the ARRL field day event is always the last full weekend in June.
Click on your Morse code speed for a field day message 6 WPM , 14 WPM , 21 WPM , 30 WPM
To have a signal that can be heard it helps if you set-up good antennas, in the up-coming pictures you will see towers being built, antennas being hoisted into place, cabling situated into safe places, operators relaxing to rejuvenate their adrenaline.
Operation build-it-quickly-and-safely begins around 9 AM local time Saturday (on the east coast), the starting whistle blows at 2 PM sharp, then patience is mixed with heat of on-the-air battles to contact as many stations using whatever components you have at hand whether digital filtering or voice compression or the older basic Morse code, we simulate the emergency conditions by operating either from generator or the preferred method of storage battery using the generator only to charge the batteries that have been drained down. We welcome visitors to the exhibit of emergency communications under trying conditions and make as many field repairs as possible in the event of equipment failures, we have seen lightning strike as close as 75 feet away burning holes onto the grassy surface with plenty of bright light. The chase goes on through the night changing bands as needed to make use of atmospheric and sun-spot enhancements, modes are allowed to change into digital with ham television, radio teletype, packet and more.
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