Dear ARRL Field Day Participant,
As a participating station or group during 2020 and 2021 ARRL Field Day,
the ARRL Programs and Services Committee is seeking your input as we
develop Field Day Rules for 2022 and beyond.
Specifically, as we look toward 2022 Field Day, there may continue to be
health and social distancing concerns in June 2022 during the ongoing world
pandemic. For 2023 and beyond the assumption is made that the pandemic will
be over, and COVID-related restrictions will be back to pre-pandemic norms.
During 2020 and 2021, ARRL permitted a couple basic accommodations during
the COVID outbreak. These were:
- to permit participants to operate from their home stations (who could
not or did not socially gather) to allow them to continue to be able to
contribute to their local club's Field Day effort by contributing their
individual scores (attained while operating from their home stations
{typically using their own personal call signs}) to an overall club
aggregate score. The score they contributed was combined together with
other members' scores to achieve an overall final club score. The overall
club aggregate score was then listed in the final ARRL Field Day results
summary in QST, and on the ARRL website;
- to allow Class D home stations to contact other Class D home stations for
points credit;
- and (added in 2021) to limit Class D (home commercial power) and Class E
(home non-commercial power) stations to a maximum transmitter output power
of 150 watts PEP (Low Power), in order that such well-established home
stations (with modest-to-high gain antenna systems, utilizing up to the
legal 1500 watt limit) did not overpower Class A, B, C or F (portable,
mobile or EOC) stations while on crowded bands.
*The survey can be accessed via this link
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2022-ARRL-Field-Day-Survey
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2022-ARRL-Field-Day-Survey>*
ARRL would like your opinions on the following by January 16, 2022. You
may direct any question to contests@arrl.org
This survey will close on January 17, 2022.
Thank you for participating in the survey!
73,
Bart Jahnke, W9JJ
Radiosport Manager
ARRL The national association for Amateur Radio®
225 Main Street
Newington CT 06111-1400
Telephone: 860-594-0272
bjahnke@arrl.org
www.arrl.org
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