Directions to the SBARC Elings Park Field Day site: If you are coming from the south (see map above), take 101 to Carrillo and head southwest toward the Mesa. Turn west on Cliff Drive and follow ¾ mile (past Monrow Elementary) to the Elings Park South entrance (not well marked). If you are coming from the north, take 101 to Las Positas and head south. Turn east on Cliff Drive and continue about $frac14; mile to the Elings Park South entrance (not well marked). In either case, turn north into the park passing through a gate and then turn left at the fork, passing through another gate, and continue on the dirt road. Stay LEFT at the next fork (the dirt road becomes one way at this point) and park in the dirt parking lot (we will be sharing with the hang glider folks). Continue on foot until you see the SBARC Rover at the top of the hill. (Lat/Long 34.410028, -119.735822) ADVISORY: There is no driving access to the site from the Elings Park main gate off Las Positas.
This year we’re putting the “Field” back in Field Day! We will be operating from Elings Park up on the hill where the hang gliders take off. We will be operating from 11:00am Saturday until 2:00pm Sunday, and we still have several time slots to fill, so we would really appreciate your help. We need three volunteers per time slot, two to operate the two stations (morse code [CW] and voice [SSB] this year), and one to help with outreach to the public (answering questions, etc). We also need people to help set up before-hand, and help break-down at the end. Operating/outreach time-slots are four hours long (but if you can only do something less, we’ll still fit you in). We are considering visiting a restaurant for an early dinner after the event Sunday – stay tuned! Your club needs you! Let’s make this a fun field day for everyone.
We will bring the Rover to just above the hang gliding area at about 10:00am on Saturday, June 22. We will need a small crew to help assemble di-poles and erect antenna masts and pop-ups.
Check out the ARRL Field Day intro and the ARRL Field Day Rules for more information. If you want to follow along closely with field day activities, please subscribe to the field day mailing list.
You are more than welcome to work a 4-hour operator shift and a 4-hour outreach shift, if you so desire, or even take two operator shifts at different stations and/or times (lowering the need for as many total volunteers). Feel free to mix it up and hang out.
If you can help out in any way, please contact us immediately, and let us know what hours you are available. Ideally, we’ll be filling shifts for these seven time slots: 11am-3pm, 3pm-7pm, 7pm-11pm, 11pm-3am, 3am-7am, 7am-11am, and 11am-2pm, but again, let us know when you can help, and we’ll fit you in!
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