Category: Winter Field Day
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Winter Field Day is coming
… not this weekend, not the next one, the one after that … January 25th and 26th. 1600 UTC to 21:59 UTC the next day. I imagine I’ll do as before; treat it as an exercise: just throw my packs (as they stand) into the car. Set up at Wildcat Mountain State Park? Over half…
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Winter Field Day 2024 at Wildcat Mountain
WFD is, first & foremost, an emergency communications exercise conducted under less-than-optimal conditions (at least for those of us in the Northern states, lol). This year I made a virtue of necessity and used my lack of planning (see the previous post) as part of the exercise; after all, emergencies do not give us advance…
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Winter Field Day is next weekend
and I have done nothing to prepare for it, nothing at all. Radios are packed at least; with fully charged batteries. Probably I will go to a park, but which one? https://winterfieldday.org/ for details about this annual event, or visit here a day or two later to read all about what I did. Thanks for…