What a year! The El Dorado National Forest is our usual Field Day destination, but this year they are really messed up! Our usual places are all NO VEHICLES ALLOWED due to some legal SNAFUs they are dealing with. Seems that some people don’t want the National Forests to be used anymore except on foot. (I thought we had National Parks for that?)
Anyway, we are scrambling around to find a new site (probably in a different forest) that can accomodate the collection of RVs and tents and have appropriate space for antennas, tall trees, etc.
Aside from that preparations are moving ahead. We had a planning meeting and tested out a backup wireless access point in a park, and set up a logging laptop. The new FDLog software is working well. (See links for availability of this free FD Logging software that uses wireless networking).
Hopefully the bands will cooperate this year. Could be pretty quiet if we don’t have good propagation…
Back to Launcher Building… and Field Day packing!