2021 Field Day Information

The Utah Valley Amateur Radio Club, K7UVA, will be participating in Field Day June 26 to 27, 2021 as a club!

What is Field Day?

ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the last full weekend of June of each year, more than 35,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.

Field Day is a picnic, a campout, practice for emergencies, an informal contest and, most of all, FUN!

It’s a time where many aspects of Amateur Radio come together to highlight our many roles. While some will treat it as a contest, other groups use the opportunity to practice their emergency response capabilities. It’s an excellent opportunity to demonstrate Amateur Radio to the organizations that Amateur Radio might serve in an emergency, as well as the general public. For many clubs, ARRL Field Day is one of the highlights of their annual calendar.

The contest part is simply to contact as many other stations as possible and to learn to operate our radio gear in abnormal situations and less than optimal conditions. You can read more about Field Day at http://www.arrl.org/field-day

More information to come!

When:

Contest operating times will run from Noon Saturday to Noon Sunday our time.

If you would like to head up into the mountains a few days earlier to help reserve the spot, that would be greatly appreciated. While we have a permit from the Forest Service, it does not reserve our spot. So those that are available to head up as soon as possible, are strongly encouraged to do so.

Technically, we can start setting up as early as 6 pm MDT on Thursday. 3.3. No class A or B station may begin its set-up earlier than 0000 UTC on the Friday (Thursday afternoon or evening local time) preceding the Field Day period. Cumulative set-up time shall not exceed a total of 24 hours.

Where:

UVARC is heading to the hills!

We will be going to Forest Road 451 in the Co-Op Creek area Directly North of Strawberry Reservoir. 40.283134, -111.168512

  • Take US Highway 40 Eastbound from Heber Utah and turn North onto Forest Road 082 just past Mile Marker 41.
  • If you hit Mile Marker 42 you are too far East.
  • Go North on FR 082 for 2.9 miles.
  • Turn left onto FR 451 where you will find Field Day site.

Video Driving Instructions

Drive Video Time Lapse Video

Link to share the map shown below: tinyurl.com/2017-uvarc-map

Saturday Evening Dinner:

The Saturday evening dinner will be potluck again this year.
The club is providing the meat, whatever that might be.

Food & Water:

Please plan on bringing your own supplies to cook and prepare your own food.

There is no water up there, so you will need to pack all of your water in with you!

Radio Equipment:

Please feel free to bring your HF, VHF & UHF equipment.

You never know when you’re going to need back up gear. We, however, ask that you do not transmit or operate on any of the HF frequencies at the UVARC location, to prevent doubling with the others. We are coordinating all of the stations so we don’t step on each other.

Activities and Facilities:

Restrooms (port-a-potties) will be provided. Additionally there are Forest Service outhouses at various locations along the roads.

There is a general store at the Daniel Summit Lodge, at the Strawberry Bay Marina, in Fruitland (East), and Heber has several stores 30 minutes away.

There will be an educational class at the site, the class is still to be determined.

Technical Details & Rules Summary:

  • Talk-in Frequency will be the 146.540 Simplex Frequency
  • We are class 3A with a GOTA Station
  • Region 7, ITU 6, CQ Zone 3
  • We will be using N3FJP Field Day Logging Software (requires Windows)
  • Cannot setup before 0000UTC Thursday
  • Operating Time is 24 hours starting 1800 UTC Saturday until 1800 UTC Sunday (Noon to Noon our time)
  • No using existing structures/buildings
  • Everything, including antennas, need to stay with in the 1000 foot diameter
  • Zero commercial power is allowed. Batteries, Solar Panels, and Generators only
  • 3 Stations will use the Club call K7UVA
  • 1 GOTA Station must use a different call.
    • This will also use the same exchange of 3A with a call sign of K7GSL.
    • 150 Watts Max
  • Exchange is 3A UT (What we tell them: “Three Alpha Uniform Tango“)
    • Example of the full exchange “Please Copy Kilo 7 Uniform Victor Alpha, Exchange 3 Alpha Uniform Tango, QSL?
  • If you participate with the club, you cannot call the club from the parking lot and qualify it for a QSO
  • Different Modes on the same band are considered “separate bands.
    • Example: We can work W1AW on both 40 meters CW and 40 meters SSB, and have it count as 2 QSOs.
  • No Cross Band Contacts
  • All stations MUST stay on different bands from each other
    • Example: If Station A is on 40 meters, and Station B is on 20 meters… Station B CANNOT QSY to 40 meters using the same mode.
  • No Repeater Contacts

Cost:

Field Day is Free and Open to the public

What you will need to bring:

This is a location in the National Forest. Please bring a means of shelter such as a Tent, RV or Camper as well as a warm sleeping bag. Also bring a warm jacket and coat. It has been known to snow at these elevations during the summer. Please bring everything you normally would on a regular camping outing.

Forest Service:

Please remember that we are guests for the Forest Service and they are granting us our Special Event Permit for Free. If we pack it in, pack it out. Let’s show the Forest Service we are appreciative and good stewards of the land and leave it better than we found it.