Field Day 2004 - Year of the rain!

Soapbox:

• Although we had a lot of fun, this year's Field Day was a little more wet than usual! Our Rampart Range site was wet AND cold while our Aloha site, just west of Denver, was just simply wet! Sunday morning was pretty clear but we were all greeted with heavy rains once we arrived home, after Field Day. Nevertheless, Colorado's "Front Range" community really needed the moisture to help break the 2004 drought so the rain was welcomed on different levels...

The Aloha site gang kept comfortable in the "Aloha Yurt" that KA3RDZ secured for us through the Bear Creek Lake Park authorities. The Rampart Range gang kept warm in cars, campers, tents and under tarps! - Roger, WBØJNR

• Were you at one of our sites this year? Your soapbox comments could go here!

Click on these thumbnail images for a larger view:
(Even better photos will be in in the Low Down)

(All photos by your humble scribe, WBØJNR, except for #15 - that one was KA3RDZ while 'JNR briefly operated CW at the Aloha site...)

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Key:

1. We forgot our club banner...	2. Welcom to the Rampart Range	3. KIØRB is our PSK31 guru!	4. KIØRB puts out more coax...
5. Bear Creek Lake Park	6. We used a lot of batteries...	7. WØHEP takes a rest	8. Hand-held satellite antenna
9. Our beam	10. Crank-up tower	11. CQC's antenna trailer	12. KØMF runs 'em on CW!
13. KF7MD stationary mobile!!	14. KØFEI & ABØCD on VHF	15. WBØJNR Aloha CW	16. NØBN & KA3RDZ in yurt
17. John & Pete at the Aloha yurt	18. Wet Aloha yurt!	19. Aloha site balun	20. Inside the Aloha yurt

Click Here for our Aloha site submission to the ARRL

Here's the Aloha Site's visitor's log:

• Richard Cook WØRG
• Linda Stouffer KCØITW
• Peter Forss KCØITU
• Nate Bushnell KDØUE
• Lorraine Demarest (N0 CALL)
• Daniel Hazen NØBN
• Roger J. Wendell WBØJNR
• Don Murray KD6KUE
• Robert Clark KAØGPA
• Vince Kumagai KIØRB
• John Hewitt KA3RDZ
• A couple local campers
• At least ten boyscouts and their parents and leaders!

Here's how we announced our 2004 Field Day effort:

• Al Dawkins, KØFRP (alkøfrp@attbi.com) and Paul Beckett, KF7MD (kf7md@aol.com)
  are our Competitive site Co-Chairs and Rampart Range Gurus!

WHO:
The Colorado QRP Club and most of this Hemisphere's active amateurs!!

WHAT:
Our 2004 "Competitive" Field Day effort will probably take place
at our Rampart Range site in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies

WHEN:
Friday-Saturday-Sunday June 25, 26 & 27, 2004.
Set-up begins Noon Friday June 25th. Field Day Event: Noon Saturday to Noon Sunday.
Tear-down Sunday afternoon.

WHERE:
Rampart Range Road near Sedalia, Colorado (About 40 miles southwest of Denver)
Located on huge ridge, at 8,000 feet elevation, in the Pike National Forest
Clear views in almost every direction with great 2 meter line-of-site into Denver

Maps:

• Denver to Sedalia
• Sedalia to Rampart Road
• Rampart Road to Devil's Head (If you reach Devil's Head, coming from Denver, you've gone too far!)

Note: Devil's Head is the last operational lookout on the Front Range and sits on the highest point of the Rampart Range.
The Devil's Head tower is accessible by the 1.3 mile long Devil's Head National Recreation Trail.

FACILITIES:
Parking and campsite.

STATIONS (This could change anytime before contest time!):
2A (2 HF stations)
primarly focused on 80-20m
Talk-in 147.225 Repeater, 146.445 Simplex.

CONTACT: Al Dawkins, our Field Day Chairman, can be reached at alkøfrp@attbi.com for all kinds of additional information!

WHAT ELSE:
Bring your Fun!

John Hewitt, KA3RDZ, will be coordinating our Aloha site effort this year. Thank you John!!
John will probably have a site set up at Bear Creek Lake Park, just south of Green Mountain
in Lakewood. John needs to reserve a site so please contact him so that he can make a
determination on how large of a space we need to reserve!

Email John at: ka3rdz@arrl.net

We'll post more "Aloha Site" details, right here, once John has it all organized...

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