The OVMRC will be setting up a radio site for ARRL Field Day at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Field Day is always the fourth full weekend, beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday (2 PM EDT, 23 June) and ending at 1800 UTC Sunday (2PM EDT, 24 June).
Everyone is invited to attend, even if you are not a licenced radio amateur!
You can find us here:
Or visit the ARRL Field Day Locator and search for VE3JW.
This year’s Field Day 2017 event takes place Saturday and Sunday, June 24 – 25.
The Combined Field Day operation involving members of the Ottawa Valley Mobile Club and Ottawa Amateur Radio Club will be conducted this year on the grounds of the RCMP Recreation and Conference Centre located just north of the Long Island Locks Station on the east side of the Rideau River. Access is by Nicolls Island Road west from River Road and north from the intersection of River Rd with Rideau Road.
The contest period is from 2 pm Saturday to 2 pm Sunday with setup and tear down before and after this period. Radio amateurs and friends intending to participate and/or help in the combined OVMRC/OARC Field Day should indicate by reply to Norm VE3LC at ve3lc@rac.ca stating when able to attend and how able to help and/or operate and preference CW or SSB. Folks should base their response on one or more time periods and activity so we can do proper provisioning for food and refreshments. The Field Day weekend time slots and activities can be divided into the following list:
New radio amateurs within the last year qualify and are needed to operate the GOTA station. We also need a radio amateur with gear and experience to make at least one satellite contact. Amateur Radio will be on-display and will be promoted at this Field Day so we will also need non operating hams to explain amateur radio to other interested folks and children otherwise attending the camp grounds.
For talk-in to the site, we will endeavour to monitor repeater VE3TWO, 147.300 + (100 Hz tone required)
All responses to Norm at ve3lc@rac.ca
73 and see you all at Field Day
de Norm VE3LC
The Last Rainy Weekend of June
For 2015, the Ottawa Valley Radio Club conducted their Field Day operations on the grounds of the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum; a very public place that attracted many visitors from the public.
The objective of the Field Day exercise is a 24 hour competition between Amateur Radio Clubs and Groups in North America to contact as many other amateur radio stations as possible on any and all amateur bands (excluding 60, 30, 17, and 12 metre bands) and in doing so, to learn to operate under abnormal situations in less than optimal conditions. A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness as well as to acquaint the general public with the capabilities of Amateur Radio.
This objective means the club will operate several stations simultaneously using tent and camper trailer shelters and antennas erected especially for the Field Day event and all power necessary to operate the radio and related equipment will be self generated and not from public commercial sources.
The Field Day event and competition is governed by the America Radio Relay League (ARRL) and also sanctioned by Radio Amateurs of Canada , our advocacy organization for Canada. The rules of competition are set annually by the ARRL and can be found at: ARRL Field Day.
Bonus points are given to competing clubs for such initiatives as operating in a public venue, for using solar power, for media publicity of the event, for contacts using low earth orbiting satellites launched especially for the amateur radio service and for having youth participate in making amateur radio contacts.
Click Here! to have a look at our FD 2015 photos!
Field Day 2011 is starting to come together very nicely….
UPDATED AS OF JUNE 21ST
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WE WILL BE OPERATING FROM THE MUSEUM GROUNDS CLOSE TO THE ROCKET SHIP AREA
Setup will commence on Saturday approx 0900 EDST with the hope of finishing by around 1200 so we can rest till FD starts at 1400 edst
VE3OIJ is Digital Captain
VE3VIG is CW Captain
VE3EJJ is Voice Captain
We will be running a 3A station using the VE3RAM callsign
In addition
VA3TQX will be the VHF captain
VE2AGE and VA3STL will be looking after the GOTA Station
VHF and GOTA are “Free” stations that do not change our operating catagory. The GOTA stn will be operating as VA3CUA
Once again this year the CUARC (Carleton University ARC) will be assisting us with FD and helping out with the Voice Stn and the GOTA Stn as well as wherever needed
Limited food will be available at meal times for participants and water as well, Coffee and tea should be available for those who need caffeine
CU on Saturday
73bob