[SCCC] Would SCCC like to sponsor an alternative contest to Field Day?

[Dave Hachadorian]

W6RW, N7TY and myself have been operating from my station for the past few 
years as a home station on emergency power, operating one radio in shifts. 
It will be the same this year, except that W6RW and N7TY will be operating 
the station remotely, and I will be operating in person.  It's a simple 
remote setup, using Teamviewer to control N1MM Logger, and Skype for 2-way 
audio.  It was a snap to set up, and worked right out of the box.  We tested 
it for a short time in the Florida QSO Party this weekend, and it worked 
great.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ

-----Original Message----- 
From: B Anderson
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 3:08 PM
To: Jess Guaderrama
Cc: N6LL at arrl.net ; SCCC Reflector
Subject: Re: [SCCC] Would SCCC like to sponsor an alternative contest to 
Field Day?

Glad to know others have been wondering about FD this year

I like the suggestions

10 years ago, when we were just starting out, we made LOTS of contacts on
UHF/VHF.
In recent years the lack of contacts on UHF/VHF have caused us to question
the effort vs the reward in that segment.

Bryce
K6TI



On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:34 PM Jess Guaderrama via SCCC <
sccc at contesting.com> wrote:

> I like the idea, but whatever you come up with, please make the exchange
> short and sweet and WITHOUT a QSO serial number. I have always hated
> contests that require a serial number.
>
> 73's Jess W6LEN
>
>
>     On Friday, April 24, 2020, 06:08:36 PM PDT, Paul Gordon N6LL <
> n6ll at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi Tim,
>
> I've been pondering the FD issue, too.
>
> We, the W6KA (Pasadena) leadership, have more or less resigned ourselves
> to the idea that it will be inappropriate for us to gather in person for
> FD. Instead we will encourage each member to be safer-at-home making
> valid FD exchanges using their own calls.Participation in our event will
> NOT require following all of ARRL's rules - just enough so the contacts
> make sense. We will encourage entries or check logs as appropriate.
>
> Marty's success getting ARES and ACS members to participate in the
> recent 70 cm Sprint gives me hope thatVHF can reclaim its respect in FD.
> [We used to get about the same scores from the cw station, the ssb
> station, and the vhf station.]
>
> I hope attractive advertising, frivolous prizes, and peer pressure will
> encourage participation.
>
> Perhaps the club will accept my proposal to call our event HAPPY Field
> Day, the *H*ouse *A*rrest *P*arty, *P*ortable in the *Y*ard.
>
> Also just thinking out loud here, but looking to be a little silly.
>
> 73
> Paul
>
> On 4/23/2020 10:24 PM, Tim Goeppinger wrote:
> > Seems to me that Field Day is going to be a big flop this year, with the
> ARRL not bending on the rules.    How can we turn around this situation so
> that some fun operating event could be done here locally, while preserving
> the outdoor aspect of FD and the FD exchange.  How about some competition
> between clubs?  Think of alternative scoring systems, like the percentage
> of a club roster that gets on the air to make contacts?  Some kind of 
> event
> to get new Technicians to take their handhelds to the nearest hilltop to
> make some simplex QSOs?
> >
> > Just thinking out loud here.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Tim N6GP
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