2022 Winter Field Day


Winter Field Day https://www.winterfieldday.com/

Amateur radio operators are also known as radio amateurs or hams. The term "ham" is a nickname for amateur radio operators. 

Purpose Mission Statement: To foster Ham camaraderie, field operation, emergency operating preparedness, and just plain on the air, outdoor fun in the midst of winter for American, Canadian, and DX Hams. 

When: Winter Field Day runs for 24 hours during the last full weekend in January each year from 1900 UTC (2pm EST) Saturday to 1900 UTC (2pm EST) Sunday. 

https://pota.app/#/park/K-2211  Heeia State Park

https://parksontheair.com/ Parks on the Air ® (POTA) site for international portable amateur radio operations that promote emergency awareness and communications from national/federal and state/provincial level parks


Winter Field Day Association
 Winter Field Day Association (WFDA) is a dedicated group of Amateur Radio Operators who believe that emergency communications in a winter environment is just as important as the preparations and practice that is done each summer but with some additional unique operational concerns.
​ We believe, as do the ARES & RACES organizations, that maintaining your operational skills should not be limited to fair weather scenarios. The addition of Winter Field Day will enhance those already important skills of those that who generously volunteer their time and equipment to these organizations. This is why WFD is open to all licensed amateur radio operators worldwide.
 Disasters are unpredictable by nature and can strike when you least expect them. WFDA's goal is to help enhance your skills and ready you for all environmental conditions found in the US and Canada during the spring, summer, fall and winter Preparedness is the key to a professional and timely response during any event and this is what local and state authorities are expecting when they reach  out to the emergency service groups that offer their services.
 If you are serious about emergency communications as we are; we welcome you to join us for our yearly event. We are sure you will find this event a pleasant change and challenge to that of a normal summer time field day.

An amateur radio operator is someone who uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other amateur operators on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service. Amateur radio operators have been granted an amateur radio license by a governmental regulatory authority after passing an examination on applicable regulations, electronics, radio theory, and radio operation. As a component of their license, amateur radio operators are assigned a call sign that they use to identify themselves during communication.

Extended, the dipole is cut for the 80 meter band with one element approximately 47 feet in length, the other approximately 83 feet. It can be used in any of the standard dipole configurations, flat-top, inverted V, sloper, vertical dipole, wire vertical w/counterpoise, etc. but the patterns achieved through different configurations are not the same as with a classic half-wave dipole in a standard configuration.

http://www.earchi.org/education/ Emergency Amateur Radio Club - Hawaii would like to assist Oahu residents in obtaining or upgrading their FCC Amateur Radio licenses.

Here is my log

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
Created-By:
CONTEST: WFD
CALLSIGN: KH6ML
CLUB:  
LOCATION: KANEOHE, HI
ARRL-SECTION: PAC
CATEGORY: 1O
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
SOAPBOX: 500 points for not using commercial power
SOAPBOX: 500 points for setting up outdoors
SOAPBOX: 500 points for setting up away from home
SOAPBOX: BONUS Total 1500
CLAIMED-SCORE: 1534
OPERATORS: KH6ML
NAME: Michael Miller
ADDRESS: 44-096 Keaalau Place
ADDRESS-CITY: Kaneohe
ADDRESS-STATE: HI
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 96744
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: HAWAII
EMAIL: KH6ML808@GMAIL.COM
QSO:  7088 PH 2022-01-29 2217 KH6ML    2O   PAC AH6J         1H PAC      
QSO:  7088 PH 2022-01-29 2220 KH6ML         2O     PAC KK6GM        1H PAC
QSO:  7088 PH 2022-01-29 2222 KH6ML         2O     PAC NH6DV        1H PAC        
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-29 2301 KH6ML         2O     PAC KO4SB        1H AL    
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-29 2307 KH6ML         2O     PAC N6GR         1H NM          
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-29 2320 KH6ML         2O     PAC K7PAC        1H OR  
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-29 2341 KH6ML         2O     PAC K7RKO        1H NV  
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-30 0013 KH6ML         2O     PAC AL7KC        1H AK  
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-30 0023 KH6ML         2O     PAC KD7ZPP       1H NV  
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-30 0023 KH6ML         2O     PAC W6TDX        1O OR
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-30 0032 KH6ML         2O     PAC KF6IDK       1O SJV  
QSO:   144 FM 2022-01-30 0040 KH6ML         2O     PAC KH6LT        1O PAC          
QSO:   144 FM 2022-01-30 0044 KH6ML         2O     PAC WH6GPZ       1H PAC
QSO: 14268 PH 2022-01-30 0051 KH6ML         2O     PAC W0SJE        1H CO  
QSO:   144 FM 2022-01-30 0433 KH6ML         2O     PAC N1VA         1H PAC    
QSO:   144 FM 2022-01-30 0441 KH6ML         2O     PAC WH6DWF       2H PAC        
QSO:   144 FM 2022-01-30 0450 KH6ML         2O     PAC KH6GG        2H PAC    
END-OF-LOG: