The 2020 13 Colonies Special Event begins on Wednesday, July 1st at 9 am Eastern Time! There will be stations in each of the states that grew from the original Thirteen Colonies plus two bonu…
13 Colonies Special Event QSL Card for K2K, New Hampshire
The idea is to try to work all 13 Colonies Special Event stations K2A – K2M and the two bonus stations – WM3PEN and GB13COL. There is a nice certificate available for working one or more of the Colonies as well as QSL cards from each of the K2x stations. Check qrz.com for QSL information and the Thirteen Colonies Special Event website for certificate information.
K2K New Hampshire will be operating from a number of locations in the great state of New Hampshire including from AB1OC/AB1QB and KC1XX. We will be operating SSB, CW, Digital (FT8/FT4), and via Satellites! We are going to spend some time on 6m and perhaps 2m and 70cm if we have some Tropo openings.
You can learn more about the 2020 event via the link above. I hope we’ll see you in the pileups!
AC1EV is operating 1E for Summer Field Day this year. I would have loved to operate in an ambitious club organized remote field day like we did last year, but Covid-19 social distancing requirements canceled that. I hoped to exercise my mobile setup and operate near saltwater, but again restrictions due to the virus made that difficult. I have a full house generator, so I will operate my home station on emergency power as class 1E. Here is how I am setup.
Power
17KW generator with 3 x 120-gallon propane tanks and Transfer switch
Power
Antennas
K4KIO Hex Beam, 6 meters through 20 meters @33 feet and Alpha Delta 40/80 Dipole as an inverted V @ 45 feet.
Antennas
AC1EV Field Day Station
Here is my shack in Tewksbury. I have an Icom IC-7300 with an Elecraft KPA500 amplifier along with an Elecraft KAT500 antenna tuner. Top that off with a Heil Pro 7 headset. The tuner allows me to select between the antennas. I have N1MM+ running on my laptop with two additional monitors leftover from my days as an IT Guru.
Anita, AB1QB, and I will be operating from our home station for the first time ever during 2020 ARRL Field Day. We are going to be a two transmitter station on emergency power.
We are going to invite a few additional operators (mostly those in the NARS Student-Teacher Contest) to operate our station remotely during Field Day as well.
We all will be operating using Anita’s callsign, AB1QB from our station.
AB1QB-AB1OC Field Day Station
AB1QB Operating in Our Shack
We are going to be operating Field Day using two transmitters on the air at the same time. The first will be one of the radios in our main shack.
Operating via the AB1OC-AB1QB Gateway
Our second transmitter will be our Flex 6700 SDR operated over the network in our home. We will locate the control point for the second transmitter in our dining room so that we won’t interfere with each other when we are both operating in SSB mode.
N1MM+ Setup for Digital Operating during Field Day
We will be using a dual-display dashboard setup to make operating Digital during Field Day easy to use. We’ll be using our Flex Maestro to operate the SDR in our shack over our network.
Main Antenna Tower
Our HF antenna system for Field Day will be our main tower. We will be QRV on all Ham bands from 160m through 23cm.
New 6m Antenna
Anita is anxious to try out our new 6m antenna during Field Day. She hopes to make lots of contacts on 6m FT8/FT4 as well as on the other HF bands.
Emergency Power
Automatic Generator at AB1OC-AB1QB
The emergency power source for our station will be a 15 Kw whole house generator at our QTH. We will be operating off the power grid for the full Field Day period. The generator will also power the computers and everything else in our home during the Field Day operating period.
Planned Field Day Activities at Our Station
The Nashua Area Radio Society is planning lots of group activities in a Social Distancing format for our members during Field Day. Our plans include:
A public official and EMCOM official meeting via Zoom
A training session for the operators here at our Station prior to the start of Field Day on Saturday
Learning More About Field Day 2020…
We have done several Tech Nigh programs to help our members get ready for Field Day 2020 from their Home Stations. The Tech Night programs include:
Setting up and using the N1MM+ Logger
How-to Do Field Day At Home
Members who are logged in can view the videos and presentations for these Tech Nights on our Tech Night Page.
We are really looking forward to Field Day 2020 and operating from our home station for the first time during Field Day. We are also excited about the group activities that NARS is planning. To learn more about NARS’ Field Day plans, be sure to follow our Field Day Forum postings.
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