Greetings!
As we have in the past this year we are once again partnering with The Redwood Empire DX Association. The following is the email that was sent out to the REDXA Field Day group and I am forwarding to you.
-Curtis Ardourel WA6UDS
— Forwarded Message —
Greetings Field Day ops!
As we discussed at our REDXA Zoom meeting on Wednesday, the Marin Rod & Gun Club remains closed and so we will not be able to do our annual FD event from there as we have done for the past many years. In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, ARRL has made temporary rules changes to allow for individual operations from home stations running with existing antennas and commercial power (Class D) to make points by contacting Class D stations. Further, the temporary rules allow individual operators to combine their scores for club competition. Full details on how this works can be found here:
http://www.arrl.org/temporary-rule-waivers-for-arrl-field-day-2020
Since we have done a joint Field Day effort with the Marin Amateur Radio Society for many years, I reached out their president, Curtis, WA6UDS, to see if they would be willing to partner with us again this year under the temporary ARRL rules. Last night, their Board of Directors met and approved the plan so we will be able to aggregate the scores of all of the members of both clubs and submitting them under a single club name. The club name is important since we all will need to use the exact same spelling in order to get the scores aggregated. In previous years, we have submitted our scores under “REDXA/MARS”, so I propose that we all use that exact club name (without the quotes) when submitting our scores individually this year.
Amateur radio has a long and proud history of providing communications under a wide variety of emergency situations and this will be an opportunity to demonstrate that we can operate effectively but safely even in the current pandemic, so I hope that as many of us as possible will be active on Field Day weekend this year!
Ron Castro, N6IE
Field Day Chairman
Redwood Empire DX Assn.
2020 Field Day is June 27-28.
Please join us!
Club Call: W6KB
