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Mike, with 2 months to go to Field Day, should I get the sign up sheet set up for? PSFD-2025?

You had mentioned needing someone to run a GOTA station. Reviewing the GOTA rules, which were updated for 2025, I think we can use one of our PARK HF stations for GOTA. There's nothing that says it has to be set up in a different space, or different way than the rest of the stations, and incorporating it into our standard deployment means we PLAN for that antenna and RF as part of our overall activity - as opposed to arranging our setup and then the GOTA station interferes with other radios. There is allowed only one GOTA station, so we can still do HF SSB, Digital, VHF, and CW stations as we typically do. GOTA and VHF doesn't count as "transmitters" so we'd be SSB/Digital/CW 3A? plus also getting points from GOTA and VHF.

I'm unclear whether the GOTA station _has_ to be on battery power.
On one hand, it says GOTA is not included in transmitter total, and bonus is per (gualified) transmitter.
OTOH, then it says "all transmitting equipment" must....
I invite the board to look it over and tell me which way you think GOTA falls.
1) GOTA has to be on battery because it's part of all equipment
2) GOTA doesn't have to be on battery because the GOTA transmitter should not be included in the club's transmitter total.

I have also asked the ARRL for clarification.

7.3.1. 100% Emergency Power: 100 points per transmitter classification if all contacts are made only using an emergency power source up to a total of 20 transmitters (maximum 2,000 points.)
GOTA station and free VHF Station for Class A and F entries do not qualify for bonus point credit and should not be included in the club’s transmitter total.
All transmitting equipment at the site must operate from a power source completely independent of the commercial power mains to qualify.
(Example: a club operating 3 transmitters plus a GOTA station and using 100% emergency power receives 300 bonus points.) Available to Classes A, B, C, E, and F.

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For PR:? Media takes a while to turn around, so we can probably start now with PR for the event.

7.3.2. Media Publicity: 100 bonus points may be earned for obtaining publicity from the local media. A copy of the actualmedia publicity received (newspaper article, etc.) must be submitted to claim the points. Any combination of bona fide media hits would qualify for the bonus points.

7.3.16 Social Media: 100 points for promoting your Field Day activation to the general public via an active,recognized and utilized social media platform (Facebook,Twitter, Instagram,etc).This bonusisavailabletobonafideAmateurRadioclubsandField Daygroupsthatwelcomevisitors
to their operation.

Educational - like a Winlink or Echolink demonstration area:

7.3.10.Educational activity bonus: One(1)100-pointbonusmaybeclaimedifyourField Day operationincludes a specific educational-relatedactivity

I have been trying for months to connect with local agencies, and there's even a bonus for it:

7.3.12. Site Visitation by a representative of an agency: One (1) 100-point bonus may be claimed if your Field Day site is visited by a representative of an agency served by ARES in your local community (American Red Cross, Salvation Army,local Emergency Management, law enforcement, etc.) as the result of an invitation issued by your group.

This was my collection of noes from Previous Field days, as well as some planning and outreach for PSFD2025.




And once again, club members operating from home can still "participate" by including K5PRK when reporting their individual results. I think will be of interest to club members who may be medically home bound, but still want to participate in some way.

Participants from any Class can optionally include a single club name with their submitted results following Field Day.
For example, if PodunkHollow RadioClub members Becky, W1BXY, and Hiram, W1AW, both participate in 202 3Field Day–Hiram from his Class D home station, and Becky fromher Class C mobile station – both can include the radio club’s name when reporting their individual results. The published results listing will include individual scores for Hiram and Becky, plus a combined score for all entries identified as Podunk Hollow Radio Club.