Dear fellow PVARC members,
ARRL Field Day is this weekend from 11:00 am Saturday to 11:00 am Sunday. We hope many PVARC members will operate from their homes using their own call sign, then submit logs to ARRL listing Palos Verdes Amateur Radio Club as their club for us to obtain an aggregate score. PVARC Field Day Chair Rocco, N6KN, will operate using our K6PV call sign from his QTH (no one else should use K6PV). But please take photos of your home Field Day setup to show at our July online club meeting.
To help with Field Day here are some useful links provided by PVARC Vice President, Ray Day, N6HE:
Field Day rules: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Field-Day/2020/1_61-2020%20Rules.pdf
Bonus points--how to create an ARRL message: http://www.ncarrl.org/nets/mes_form.html
Bonus points--copying the ARRL Field Day bulletin: http://www.arrl.org/news/w1aw-announces-field-day-bulletin-schedule
Submitting your log to ARRL: https://field-day.arrl.org/fdentry.php
Gary Lopes, WA6MEM, has been following the 6-meter band lately and reports many long-distance openings starting around 7:00 am our time. Last week using FT8 from RPV he worked 13 European countries and heard three others, calling it the best 6-meter conditions in a long time. The 6-meter band is often called the Magic Band...sometimes in summer it works, sometimes not.
If you would like to operate in a traditional Field Day large-scale setting (and feel comfortable doing so) the Torrance Radio Museum club founded by Bob Burchett (WB6SLC and owner of Enterprise Electronics/Novexcomm), plans a Field Day site at the San Pedro Elks Lodge on Cumbre Drive overlooking L.A. Harbor using their club call K6SLC. This club welcomes members of other South Bay amateur radio clubs to participate as operators or loggers. If interested contact Peter von Hagen, WA6HXM, at 410-989-8573 or email him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
In the meantime our weekly K6PV repeater analog club net is tonight at 7:30 pm with the 2-meter cross-link working on 144.910 MHz, Tone Squelch, PL 156.7 for those on the Peninsula's west side. Our K6PV DMR net is Wednesday night at 7:30 pm.
Lastly, thanks to everyone who participated in last Saturday's PVARC EmComm Interest Group online meeting...we hope you found the information useful.
Have a great week ahead and 73,
Diana, AI6DF