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Ok here is what we have so far, as of 03/13/2025 for Stations. Matthew KD9DZT Primary Phone, Alternates CW, RTTY, PSK Pat W9PCK Primary Phone, Alternates Digitals Greg KB9JMJ FT Only Ray WX4RAY Primary, Phone Jude W9LMC Primary Phone, Spare Operators, Me WB9SBD Of you 5, who is willing to let me do CW at their station when they are taking a break? CW is my specialty and is worth twice the QSO points too! So Far we got, three clubs,, 2 From Baraboo 2 From Watertown 1 From Richland Center Hey Mauston! Where are ya? Now, of you five, Who of you would be interested in being the GOTA Station? We REALLY NEED a GOTA Station! The GOTA station can be worth far more points than any of the other stations! QSO points alone are worth per contact MORE than the other stations! It can be where we get young people to get on and try to make some contacts worth a LOT of points! read up in the rules to see what the requirements to be the GOTA station are. go to W9ET.COM and follow the links to where you can download the official rules packet. The GOTA station should be at least during the daytime and early evening when visitors may come by it should be outside and visible. several are bringing large campers and such, so hidden inside them would not be good for the GOTA station, unless you can set up outside of it during times of possible visitations. Who wants to be GOTA!? OPERATORS! We need MORE operators! We have 5 stations so far. But only 6 Operators. The 5 station owners and ME! We want to try to keep all the stations running for the full 24 hours. not too many people are capable of doing this so for those stations that are open to letting someone else run their station while they take a break GREAT! But we NEED BODIES!!! I Guess first let me know if you are OK with someone else running your station when you are taking a break! Spread the word at your clubs! We Need non-owner operators! We want to keep these stations making contacts! Speaking of People, How about anyone that want to help the effort, but just do not want to get on the radios Thats just fine! There are literally thousands of BONUS points up to grab that have nothing to do with getting on the radio and making contacts! Again go to the web page above and navigate to positions to see all the bonus points that are up for grabs! So far all we have that have come forward to getting some bonus points are two Solar Stations and ME. We need your help! Spread the word at your clubs! tell everyone what we are trying to do here. And we need your help even non radio help! Have anyone that wants to help contact me. 73 Joe WB9SBD

Jude Wade W9LMC Member of WARC Extra Class For Field Day, I plan to use my FT-891 with FC-50 tuner, 100 watts, SSB, with a Chameleon Tactical Delta Loop (mostly 10M, 15M, 20M, 40M) and/or a 20M bipole on a 32' vertical carbon mast. Power off of a solar battery. I will SUV/ tent camp. Let me know what else you need to know about my set-up for FD planning. I took up ham radio in March 2023 and have done 2 previous summer FDs with members of WARC. I live just outside of Watertown, WI. 73 Jude, W9LMC (used to be KD9WWA)

The 2025 ARRL Field Day Rules have been posted. Here is the link to them. https://www.arrl.org/field-day-rules Mathew KD9DZT President of YTARC

Hi Everyone! OK, Field Day may seem like a far far off thing on this snowy day. But it really is not. We REALLY need to have people come forward and tell us what they want to do. As soon as Possible! We have a LOT to organize so issues of the past do NOT happen with this multi-club effort. Spread this E-Mail to your clubs members! All are welcome. As long as we organize it ahead of time. IT DOES MATTER! I mean we have the Room. numbers are not an issue. I mean every club has to abide by the same Rules. And if some clubs can have 18 stations... There is no reason we can't have say 5 or more. It CAN be done! BUT! It needs to be planned for. People can't just show up at 1 PM on Saturday ,, set up,, and start Operating. That does not work! If planned ahead of time, I have been at Field Days, where there was 6 yes SIX stations running on ONE BAND! At the same time! Yet there was no interference between any of them! If Planned ahead! Even at one of the YTARC FD's with the ahead of FD planning a FT-8 station and the CW station, was able to be on the same band at the same time, and even be as close as 5 Kc apart from each other and have no interference issues! But for this to work it MUST be planned for ahead of Field Day! I know this E-Mail may have a NON-Inviting tone to it. But that is NOT it's intention! This E-Mail is intended so everyone has the best possible Field Day experience possible! And to stop preventable issues from happening because of poor planning. Some stuff is super simple but has a HUGE effect of the days success! Yet can easily happen and make FD not fun for many! Something as simple as the Public Information Table that is manned with a Meet & Greet person. I have heard from both the general public and even other actual Hams, That show up, and felt actually like they are not welcome. Totally ignored. They wander around and not one person says anything to them. Hey this good Public Relations thing not only gives a good impression of the group, but HEY! We get a bunch of bonus points for Field Day for having it too! The "Not Welcome" I have heard in other ways also. Someone arrives, and is willing to join the effort, but gets the impression from those already there, that there is no room in the inn for them to set up and start making contacts. So after a hour or so they leave! This "Not Welcome" feeling or the being Ignored is in-excusable! It should never ever happen. Who wants to help set up a Public Information Table, and keep an eye on it for when Visitors arrive they can go and "Meet & Greet" them? Stations.... We need to know who is wanting to set up a station! YES all are welcome! For Sure! BUT, we need to know who you are and details on what you want to do as far as modes, powers, antennas, etc. These details MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE!!! On if FD is a success or a total bummer making people not want to do it and even go home! Yes all are welcome, BUT it must be planned! In the past we have had a station that was invited, but we never heard back if they were coming or not to just show up and set up and start operating! Problem was there was no logic on where he should set up. he just did. And in doing so, he ended up causing terrible interference to three other already there and operating stations, soo bad that two stations just gave up and started chatting with other people on the site. and one packed up and went home! So if you want to set up a station we need to know who you are as soon as possible! So we can figure out the best possible layout location of each station to minimize the interference possibilities. Bonus Points! Man these are free and some have little to no work involved! but can add GIANT points to the final FD Score! Like something as simple as that Public information table, That alone is equivalent of a Phone station making 100 Contacts! Solar Powered Contacts? make only 5 powered by say solar and again 100 Phone contacts equivalent Points! Know some "Official" type of person? We can get 200 Phone contacts equivalent points for one of these folk visiting the FD site! Site Visitation by

This is great! Lets start to see who all is interested or wanting to do what? As far as people wanting to set up actual stations we have three A Phone Station, A FT-8/4 Station that may also do Phone A Station that Says FT-8/4 but on 10 meters only. Who else wants to set up a station? Who wants to get on the air and make contacts for the effort, but can't or won't be setting up a station. Bonus Points! Man BONUS points are incredibly HUGE! If we get every Bonus point available, They can even end up doubling our score! Go to the web site https://w9et.com/dafd.html Summary of the site, And at the bottom is a Link to "Positions" here you will see all the possible Bonus points that can be earned! As soon as the official 2025 rules are published I'll add an link to them, but for now the 2024 will serve the purpose describing in detail what each bonus point is. Lets get some folk signed up to get these things! Joe WB9SBD

Tell us about yourself dude! Joe WB9SBD

Welcome WI9SSR to the group everyone! Joe WB9SBD

We had two more join us this evening. The project is growing. I am currently working on a WEB Page for this project. Will let ya all know when it's finished. Spread the Word! Lets get as many into this as we can! Joe WB9SBD

I'm putting together a web site for this "Field Day For All" project of ours. I'm looking for a name/term/something. Like Assignment? no that doesn't sound right. Say someone wants to be one of the Phone Stations. What should we call it? Like "position" or something? How about the Bonus points tasks. What could we call that. "Lead" "Manager" What to call the person who is volunteering to do a certain task. Ideas? Joe WB9SBD

I have a Buddipole. I have a lot of the parts or may be all of them. It can be set up as a yogi on some of the upper bands. I will have a Palomar 80-6 Off Center Fed Dipole. I also hope to have a Dx Commander Expedition Verticle.