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I forgot some hints to make your FT-8/4 rates faster and more successful. Time: Make sure your computer clock is as dead on correct time as possible! Well Sorta...... It changes quickly! Last night at 10PM mine was 10 ms fast. But just now the morning checking it's quite a bit more fast. TOO Fast. I try to be between 50 and 100 ms fast. That may sound counter productive when all the paperwork says you should try to have your time be as close to dead on as possible. They say the further off from dead on the less chances of being decoded happens. And yes that is true. You get too far off from sync with everyone else and you percentage of being decoded drops off a cliff! I see some degradation at +100ms, but barely noticeable, and at +150ms, it seems rates drop like 50% and it gets really bad any higher! Of course all this timing also all depends on what the majority of people on the air what their timings are! If everyone else is running fast, then if you are dead on you end up being slow and that is VERY BAD!!!! Even just 50ms slow and you are lucky to get any answers to your calls at all! So watch the waterfall also. See how peoples signals are spacing with the timing lines? Adjust as needed, so you will be transmitting that 50 to 100 ms early. Now why would I want to do this? If I am on purpose loosing a small percentage of being decoded? It is all on how the software works. This of course mainly only applies to you answering someone's CQ. You CQing this does not apply. The software by default after it finishes CQing listens for callers. If you are the only caller and he hears ya, of course he works ya! But what happens if you end up being one of 20 calling him, and yes that's not uncommon. Who does he end up working if he is running his software in default mode which like 90% of people do. By default he answers to the First station he decoded. Ding Ding Ding Ding see the reason to be just a little faster than everyone else? If you end up being the first he decodes you will be who he calls. That's one way to increase your rate. Next, is a setting in your system. Say you are CQing, and people call you. again One person, no problem, you work him. But if again 20 called, Who do you answer? And remember you got seconds to decide. One thing I do is to activate this feature. Here you have three choices, Last Decoded:, where the last station you decoded is who it will answer. Distance: this one is great for contests that you get more points the further the station is away! And for Field Day or 99% of other contests or even every day to day operation, I use Signal Strength: Choose this and the strongest signal is who you will answer. Being the strongest obviously will help you make the complete contact with as few repeats as possible. How about when you are running S&P Search And Pounce where you are looking for people CQing and calling them. A cycle has ended and you are looking at this! Who do you choose to call? Remember you got like no seconds to waste. especially in FT-4, And you are using FT-4 right!? he he he. But honestly who do you choose to call? Remember first decoded usually wins the contact! Take too long to decide and you will loose being not first decoded. and have to wait for the next Chance to call them, at least then the computer will decide when to call, and hopefully be ahead of everyone else. I ignore That window! I use this one! Many things are happening in this window, First, each cycle this is populated with what it heard. AND In this case it is told to ONLY show me stations CQing! AND To ONLY show me stations I have not worked yet. do not show me any others. Or anyone NOT CQing. AND To sort them in order of signal strength strongest at the top. AND Color Code them. All here are in BLUE because I was using the Field Day parameters. There are no Mults in FD so all the stations are in BLUE. And good to work. But if this was a contest with mults, and say the station F4JRC is a new Mult, F4JRC, would be in RED, and you would click on him first! Simply clicking on his call starts the calling process. So when

Evening everyone. I have been working off list with the station owners to see what we can do to make the best layout locations of all the stations. Just finished Today. Everyone, Including the Station Owners, Please go to the web site https://w9et.com And navigate to the Positions Page. I have two tasks for you all. Station Owners and the rest, look how we have the stations laid out at the site. If you think there might be a better layout TELL ME!!!! Now is when we want to make changes if any. NOT on Field Day Weekend!!! The other thing is OK we got Stations, locations, Now we need two more things! More operators other than the stations owners! They can't sit there for more than 24 hours non-stop! We need more Op's And Bonus stuff. Hardly anyone has come forward to say they will do any bonus points. There is a LOT of them! 100 bonus points which is the value for most of the bonus items is the same as making 100 phone contacts!!!! We earn say 3 of the bonus items thats like making 300 contacts!!! Check out the bonus things and see if you can take any of them on! Joe WB9SBD

OK Ray WX4RAY Volunteered to be the GOTA Station. What ya think of the Public information Table the Meet & Greet Visitors Table, Chris KC9CMD has stepped forward to run that. What ya think of putting them side by side, so maybe we can even get some of the visitors to Get On The Air! Thoughts? Joe WB9SBD

First order of Business. Who is hoping to set up a station for Field Day? So far I know of KD9DZT. who else? Joe WB9SBD

Hello all, We’re excited to announce that this year’s Field Day will be held at Owen Park in collaboration with Yellow Thunder and WARC. We plan to host it at WARC next year. Our goal is for both clubs to make a strong, coordinated effort over these two years to make Field Day a great success. While many of our seasoned operators have participated in numerous Field Days, it’s precisely their experience and knowledge that will be key to making this event a success. I personally have immense respect for our Elmers and always enjoy the opportunity to learn from them and be in their company. Yellow Thunder has proven expertise in managing multiple stations with minimal interference, but careful setup is essential for that to work. We’re planning to operate four stations: ? Phone ? CW ? Digital ? GOTA (Get On The Air) Since some stations may be on the same bands at times, careful planning around antenna placement and types will be crucial. Good planning can make or break Field Day, and we’re counting on everyone’s input to help us get this right. I’ve attached a map of the Owen Park area with measured lines for scale. We also have permission from the landowner to the south to use the adjacent field, which should give us more flexibility with setup. Let’s start by gathering a list of antennas that people have available, so we can begin coordinating. It’s never too early to start planning! Looking forward to everyone’s input.