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This is HamTalk Live, episode number 308, Winter
Field Day, recorded on December 1st, 2022. I'm
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in to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight,
we're joined by Marvin Turner, W0MET. from the
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You're listening to HamTalk Live with Neil Rapp.
Welcome back to HamTalk Live. Tonight Marvin
Turner WZeroMET joins us on the Orlando Amateur
Radio Club and Amcations Zoom line. Marvin is
the president of the Stones River Amateur Radio
Club in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He's been a
ham for over 25 years and participates in Parks
on the Air and he's a member of the Rutherford
County Ares Group and operates an Arden Mesh
node there in Murfreesboro. And he is the director
of this year's Winter Field Day. So, Marvin,
thanks for coming on to the show here. Good evening,
Neil. Thanks for having us. Well, we wanted to
talk a little bit about Winter Field Day because
that's going to be coming up here in a little
over a month. and make sure everybody knows what's
going on. I know you have some exciting changes
to the program. And so we'll talk about some
of those later on, but just to quaint everybody
listening, if they're not familiar with Winter
Field Day, tell them what it's all about. So
Winter Field Day is really just a communication
exercise formatted to help increase your level
of preparedness. for disasters and improve your
operational skills in sub -park conditions. We
operate during the summer. We love to get out
in the parks. We like to set up our stations
and we sit comfortably inside our our ham shacks
and have lots of good times and make great contacts.
But how does that deer really prepare you when
you have a disaster in the middle of winter?
And you know does that generator you know stay
stay charged or your battery stay charged in
the winter. Obviously batteries in cold operating
conditions typically don't last as long as they're
doing warm. And so it's you know can you hold
yourself up in that weather? Are you inside a
tent? Are you in a cargo trailer? Are you in
a warm building? You know those sort of things.
So again we talk about those subpar conditions
and how we can Operate for extended periods of
time in this case. We're just doing on a 24 hour
period It's kind of a test run, but that's what
we really are our main focus Should say the focus
has always been and we will continue that focus
as well Very good. Well, I know you've got a
new group of people working on this and So tell
tell them how I can find out more about Winter
field day and find all the rules and everything
Sure, so We've just created a new website this
year Winterfield day comm it's been around for
a long time But I want to back up just a little
bit is that I took this over beginning the process
in June and so We've kind of had to create a
new group of winter field day board of directors.
And so we've kind of revamped a few things And
you can go out to our Winterfield Day site. We've
kept a lot of those things the same. And just
get winterfieldday .com and you can take a look
at our site. There's still some changes and things
that we're still trying to work out on the new
site. But if you click over to how to participate,
you'll see right there on your left -hand side
the 20 -23 rules. You can read them right there
on the site if you want for just kind of the
main main information and then you can actually
click the very top says click here to download
and you can go ahead and click on that and get
a pdf copy of those rules for this year all right
very good winterfielday .com make sure you check
it out got a nice little intro there on the website
as well so when is this going to happen what's
what are the dates and times here So Winterfield
Day is scheduled for January 28th and 29th, 2023.
It is the last full weekend of January every
year. It's been hosted that way since I think
2007 when Winterfield Day kind of got started
kicking off and it's kind of kept that time frame
throughout throughout the years. All right, very
good. Well, so you've got the rules on the website,
all of the information about dates and times
and everything but just kind of summarize how
how to participate if you happen to be on the
air that weekend and and you hear somebody operating
Winterfield day how should they handle that and
if you go out and set up just just the quick
summary version of you know what's the exchange
you know what what can you do what can you not
do sure so Winter field day exchange consists
of your call sign, your class, which is it may
be one, two, three, it can be as many as 14.
And that class basically needs the number of
operating positions that you have. So if you
are out there by yourself and you're doing it
outdoors in a tent, you'd be one outdoors. If
you're operating in a building of some sort and
you've got a small club of three or four people
and you can be like three indoors So that would
be your class is your number of stations and
your category is whether you're indoors outdoors
Home or mobile and which is a new one we've added
for this year And so we'll talk about that in
a minute here. But the exchange continues to
be the other thing besides your call sign, your
class, and your category, you also have to exchange
the location identifier. That means you're, I
would be like one outdoors since I'm in Tennessee,
I'm one outdoors Tennessee. And you could, N3FGP
does a really great job of their winter field
day software indicating uh what state you're
in or what region you're in you may be you know
south texas you may be you know western pennsylvania
same thing you use for summer field day as we
typically do uh one thing we've added this year
is mx and that's for mexico stations which is
fairly new for us and then obviously anything
outside the u .s we will go ahead and use dx
as that um but you must accurately copy and record
their full exchange of all that information,
you know, do not change your section during the
contest either. A lot of people like to, you
know, change sections and do something different
and go from, well, I was outdoors, it was cold.
So I decided to now go inside and go inside.
So now I'm gonna become one indoors. You're still
one outdoors. It's still, it just makes things
really messy in the linking of the. connection
in the contest software when we're all done with
that. So if you're one outdoors you stay one
outdoors and you maintain that throughout the
whole field day exercise. Now we do write it's
a contest in there because people are always
looking for points and they're looking for you
know how well did I score and so there's that
whole scoring content scoring portion of it therefore
it kind of becomes a contest but it's really
meant to be again back to our basics what I started
off with this is really a field day communications
exercise and so then you know again we've added
the mobile category in there and so you may be
one mobile and so you may be in a structure like
an rv a car maybe a trucker of some sort maybe
it could be a trucker going down the road so
he could be mobile maybe you're in a cargo trailer
of some sort maybe your ham radio club has it
has a cargo trailer and you operate as your emergency
emergency airing station so that would be a one
mobile platform at that point this year Very
cool. That's a lot of information in a very short
time. Yeah, it is, but that's a good summary
of what's going on here. And so, and if you're
like me, you're right on the border of like two
other states and sections. So if I start in Kentucky,
I'm not going to switch to Ohio if I go across
the river here. No, we want you to stay in Kentucky
at that point for sure. All right. Okay. Well,
you mentioned a couple of the new things here,
the Mexico and the mobile category. What are
some other changes that you've made to the rules
for this year? One thing, you know, I guess not
really a major change from years past, but it
is some of the things that we continue to Always
try to emphasize is that the stations are still
limited to 100 watts of maximum power. All logs
must be in the Cabrillo format when submitted.
Again, we've got Mexico stations now can use
MX and N3, FGP, N1, MM. Some of those other logging
softwares have been updated and told about this
and are familiar with it. You know, they should
have that as part of the station identifier in
their logs now for you to be able to add that
And again, they've got that mobile category because
again, it's just not what with whatever we do
We have to notify those people who are software
developers that are doing like N3 FGP Just because
it's the most common I'd say probably 60 to 70
percent of our users are using N3 FGP So I'm
mentioning that the most It's not the only one
out there But again, probably one that's used
by most people for logging during the winter
field day. And then we've added an extra antenna
bonus as well to this year. And those are probably
the main things that we've done. And then the
final thing is that FT4, FT8 is not used because
it doesn't communicate that exchange. That's
nothing new. But I know we've had some people
say, hey, can we use this we've had a lot of
questions coming in via email about it and so
I want to make sure that I kind of emphasize
the FT4 FT8 does not communicate the exchange
that I mentioned earlier and so therefore it
is not allowed JS8 is an alternative that people
can use but that is you know still the same that's
kind of the request of the previous board when
we took it over that we maintain that and we
certainly will. Okay. Well, that was a good rundown
of some of the changes for this year's Winter
Field Day, so we'll talk some more about that
and some of these new categories with Marvin
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are back here on ham talk live with Marvin Turner
W0MET He is in charge of the winter field day
and we'll say contest, you know Summer field
day. There's always this huge argument over is
it a contest? Is it not a contest and so You're
going ahead and saying it's a contest You know,
I think when you start throwing some points in
there and you know you're trying to make as many
I mean we say right here in our rules you're
trying to make as many contacts as possible and
you've got multipliers in there for so many points
you're getting or so many contacts you're getting
so many points and you're getting bonus points
and I mean what part of that doesn't just yell
at you and say it's a contest And so it makes
it really tough not to call it a contest at that
point. But again, like I said once and twice
before, is that it's really meant to be a field
communication exercise on how well you can do.
And that's something we're kind of maybe looking
at changing down the road. This year just being
the fact that it was a short time from the time
we took it over and preparing for field day 2023,
we don't have time to make those changes. But
now after this winter field day, we'll have a
whole year to prepare for that. So. Yeah, it
seems like if you keep score, it's a competition.
So, you know, I know a lot of people have different.
different opinions on that, but that's the one
I always seem to get from the young people especially
is, well, then why do you keep score if it's
not a contest? Exactly. Well, anyway, we'll go
ahead and call it a contest, but Marvin's joining
us here to talk a little bit about Winterfield
Day and get you ready for that. That's January
28th and 29th in 2023. and let's talk a little
bit about submitting logs for this I know you
need those logs even if you make one contact
you need a log so you can match these things
up so talk a little bit about how people should
submit their logs absolutely so you can find
some links to some of our logs on our website
I think N3FJP may be the only one on there right
at the moment. But N1MM, TR4W, Hammers, which
is a new one that came out in the last year or
two that a lot of people use for parks on the
air. They've also got a winter field day log
submission. And so I think you have to take that
one and convert that from an ADIF file to a Cabrillo
format before you can submit it. But we're submitting
our winter field day logs in a Cabrillo format
just like any of the other major contests that
you would participate in and so you definitely
need you know the format on the link that will
be provided on the web page at the time of the
field day it will be turned on at the time of
field day on that January 28th. I'll think about
the date for a moment. And then it will turn
off by March 1st. And the logs must be submitted
by March 1st and by midnight at that date. Late
entries won't and cannot be accepted. They will
be turned off and there will be no ifs, ands,
or buts about that. If we did that, we could
carry this thing all the way out into May, you
know, some people will just be late getting them
in there. And we want to be able to try and get
this on an expedited manner. We get a lot of
requests about, you know, the, hey, when are
you submitting the results? When are the results
coming out? I've seen a lot of emails around
that in the past years. And so we want to be,
you know, timely and respective of people getting
all those in as well. So we just got to do a
cutoff date and it's just got to be hard, hard
core to that. And then a lot of people will say,
hey, you know, I submitted, I found error in
my log. I want to resubmit it. And so how do
I go about doing that? And so I was like, versus
sending us an email, just correct the error in
your log, resubmit it, and we'll get that corrected
on IRN because our software, which is used by
many other contests, as well it's the same software
being used is it will kick out and say hey there's
two W0MET logs here and so we'll start to figure
that out and so then the you know obviously the
latest version will probably hopefully be the
be the right one there that we can choose and
so that will replace the original that you submitted.
You can submit your logs right online at www
.winterfieldday .com and once you submit your
log you should receive a confirmation email.
If you didn't for some reason, let us know. We
can be happy to log in and take a look at that
and see if, in fact, we did get that submitted
for you. But I'm hoping we don't get a flood
of emails because of that. But just the fact
that you should receive a confirmation email
to help you know that your log has been, in fact,
submitted at that point. And then we'll end up
reposting the results on a winter field day.
Right now we're something trying something new
where in the past it was in there as a PDF etc
We're trying to find a way to the guy that we've
got doing some webmastering for us Is that we're
actually going to create a database and you should
be able to dig into that database on the website
type in W0MET which is my call for example and
Come up with the results for how I did and give
you some that some of that data back for you.
So there's something a little different, something
a little new. Again, we've kind of revamped some
of these things that we're trying and doing,
hopefully making some great improvements. Excellent
job. Marvin Turner, WZeroMET from Winter Field
Day is joining us here on HamTalk Live. Let's
talk about the station locator. I know as we're
recording this, it's not ready to go yet, but
talk a little bit about the station locator.
So we You know again, we've revamped that website
made new colors new looks Made a few changes
to the bear just a little bit on tweaking a few
minor Character things about it but the field
day map it was on the old website as well and
We just found a guy the last couple days here
that can go in and create that field day map
and they'll show you all the station where all
the stations are going to be. So I encourage
everyone to reach out. Let's call it today being
Thursday, December 1st. Let's push this out to
the beginning of next week and hopefully that
new map will be updated with Google Maps. If
you do go out there and put your station for
winter field day that you'll be doing and where
that's going to be on our map. and we'd love
to see the number of field day stations that
are out there and maybe you're listening to this
and you're not a ham operator and you want to
know what a field day station is or you want
to know where to go this will be the website
to go and find that out and certainly go to one
of those places and and we do have a question
in there that we're asking people who submit
a field day station location that they can choose
if this is a private or a public event that people
can come to. So some may just want to go pop
up a tent in the middle of the woods and operate
and they don't want nobody around. Then others
may have clubs that they say, yeah, it's a public
event. We want people to come and be a part of
it. So that is coming to us. But just give us
a couple of days to get that wrapped up and squared
away. and so that will hopefully be a better
interactive map here very soon. The other thing
was that we had a contact form on our webpage
and that was one of those things that we were
getting spammed right and left and we just had
to cut it off the other day till we can get some
other things fixed and just email us directly
at wfda at winterfieldday .com and You know,
we will respond to you as soon as we can. Again,
I'm kind of getting a lot of emails this time
of year. You know, starting to get a lot of questions
asked. So be patient. We will respond to each
and every one of them. All right. And as always,
take a look at the website. We, you know, most
of the things that you need to know are there.
So take a look at that. But if not, it's great
to know that someone's keeping an eye on the
inbox there. Um, well, let's talk a little bit
about the future. I know you, you've mentioned
a few things that, uh, you're still looking to
change and, and do so. So what are your plans
for the future? So, um, we are talking in terms
of a contest a minute ago and is one of those
things that we're kind of looking at maybe finding
a way to make this more call it objective based.
so you have certain objectives that you will
have to accomplish to or certain stations maybe
you'll have to try and reach out and touch like
you would for Route 66 or Maybe you'll do like
13 colonies And so, you know, you know we can
do this objective base where are you running
a generator? Are you running a battery? Are you
running, you know for eight hours? You know different
things like that that we can start to throw together
I know we've kind of created a small list of
some other things. I don't want to throw it all
out there yet, but more of a checklist of things
that you've accomplished. And then in the end,
you would basically send that in with your log
showing that you've accomplished these items.
And then you end up getting a certificate in
response for that. I'll be honest, I just got
my 13 colonies certificate in the mail today
and I could have been happier. I was like, finally
I got that certificate from 13 colonies and it
was kind of a joy to see it and get it and something
I enjoyed having. And I think a lot of people
do like that. A lot of people pay the three or
four dollars to get their certificate back from
organizations or fun field day events like that.
And so something we're kind of considering exploring.
We'll see where it goes. But yeah. Okay. What
are your numbers? What are some of the stats
here from winter field days in the past? Sure.
So some of our stats in the past have been For
like just this past year in 2022, we were over
2 ,500 logs were submitted So that's probably
a little over 6 ,000 participants Is that we're
kind of you know looking at for numbers roughly
619 individual clubs sent in logs. So we're glad
to see that so that's pretty good numbers. I
think There are 512 logs claimed the bonus of
using alternative power. So obviously nothing
on commercial power And that was really good
to see about how many of those were being submitted.
I would love to see a lot more using some type
of alternative power than that. But, you know,
again, the whole operational point is to see
how long you can operate on other alternatives,
right? What I found really interesting was North
Carolina was one of the most active states with
110 stations on the air. I was like, that's pretty
incredible. So something I wouldn't have thought
about, something I didn't know, but going back
and looking at the logs, that's what we're finding
out. And then in between the US and Canada, all
but a couple of ARRL RAC sessions had activity.
So I'd love to see those other sections. I don't
have what those are right off the top of my head,
what those sections of ARRL were, but we'd love
to see all sections have some form of participation.
for everybody to be able to reach out to every
one of those and and see how well they can talk
to the You know to the other areas or other states
at least and then again most pipeline software
I said between 60 and 70 percent of our users
are using in 3f JP software and so That's pretty
good for Scott over there who does develop a
really great software. We've been in touch with
him a couple times this year and he's pretty
excited to get this put together for us as well.
And then 2023 will be our 17th year. So I've
got something to look forward to that we can
come up on 20 years and not sure what that's
going to look like, but definitely looking at
some future and some thoughts around that and
some excitement hopefully for 2023. All right,
and you know there's a lot to do here to take
this on and We definitely want to thank you and
your team for Working to do this and of course
some sponsorships are always Helpful as well.
So talk a little bit about the sponsorships of
this Sure. So yeah, we've got a great board.
My brother W4OPS is my creative services major
Jason Johnson I can't remember his call sign,
but he's one of the board members, and he's kind
of doing our social media for us. We have a guy
out of Kansas that's doing our newsletters and
things like that, and a lady out of Chattanooga,
Tennessee who's doing our treasury stuff. And
so it does take a whole board of people to be
able to make this operate. And to make this go,
we've got a lot of other additional side members
that are kind of auxiliary people that are helping
out with contesting and the website, things like
that. So it's more than just the five of us.
And of course, it takes a little bit of operation
to run some marketing, whether it's pamphlets
and things like that. We're going to try and
do some ham radio shows, ham fest along the way.
And then, of course, just the cost of running
a website. and getting a website built, et cetera,
things like that. So we've got some sponsors
and our biggest one obviously being our corporate
partner ICOM. Ray Novak was great in getting
us some contact there and helping us out with
the sponsorship from a corporate level. And so
they are our official sponsor of Winterfield
Day at this point. and then we've got some other
club sponsors and some other donors as well that
people have you know contribute along the way
because our website right now is kind of in that
transition of trying to get switched over to
Maintain the same format, but it's getting changed
over just a little bit to fix that mapping software
issue. I don't have the other newest donors listed
up on there yet, but if you have donated, we
do appreciate it. We kind of did a little bit
of a giving campaign on Tuesday. I haven't seen
many numbers have come in from that yet, but
it does cost a little bit to operate this. organization
and you know we're not getting paid for all volunteer
at this point but it's just the cost of kind
of doing business in general that we have to
kind of maintain a little bit so we appreciate
anything that someone would like to donate and
again thank ICOM America for all that they do
for us as well so all right very good uh well
last thing here it's mentioned some miscellaneous
rules some some clarifications that may have
caused some issues in the past or something new.
So just kind of tie this up here with a few of
the miscellaneous rules in the contest. Sure,
appreciate that. So some of the things that we
have seen in the past that people have asked
about was any rules governing amateur radio at
your location must be observed throughout the
event. If you're a general class operator, you're
operating on a general class license. Unless
your club is like an extra, your trustee is an
extra class license, then you can operate under
that extra class at that point. And again, any
mode that is used. must be faithfully transmitted
to the exchange without any type of conversion
table. You can only work one band per mode. All
voice contacts are equivalent across the board.
Same with CW, digital contacts. One of the questions
we get is crossband contacts. You can't use any
crossband contacts, but satellites are kind of
the exception to that. And then, of course, no
repeater contacts or DMR may be transmitted because
DMR is using some form of repeater on either
the transmitting or the receiving end to make
that contact. So that repeater doesn't work either.
But those are a lot of the questions we kind
of get throughout. Those are kind of called the
highlight of our frequently asked questions.
but hopefully that will you know again if someone
has we've had quite a few questions come in but
if you do have a question after reading over
the rules again that's kind of important you
do read through them and you know maybe read
through them a little bit twice even to help
understand it but we've taken it from like 11
pages of a lot of information down to about you
know six or seven trying to shorten it trying
to make a little bit more short and sweet make
a little more simplified for people to be able
to feel like they can read through it without
being overwhelmed with the information so We
hope that that is helpful to them and that they
can reach out to us if they do have any questions
in regards to the field day and any rules that
they're governing what we're asking to have done
for the winter field day. So hopefully that's
helpful and I appreciate you asking that. All
right. Marvin, thank you so much for joining
us tonight, taking some time out to talk about
Winter Field Day. Remind everybody about the
website and the dates just one last time. So
again, Winter Field Day is January 28th and 29th,
and that is starting at, give me just one second,
I just saw it here a second ago, there we go,
at 1900 UTC on Saturday, and it ends at 1859
UTC on Sunday. You have some stations set up
time beforehand, but that'll happen January 20th
and 29th. The last weekend in January will be
Winterfield Day like it is every year for 2023.
So we hope to have everyone out there and have
more stations join us this year. All right. Well,
thanks so much and look forward to Winterfield
Day coming up here in just a little over a month.
So thanks. Appreciate it. No problem. Thanks
for having me on here this evening and you know,
sorry three All right, that is a wrap for this
edition of ham talk live I'd like to thank my
guest Marvin Turner W zero MET and Everyone out
there in cyberspace for listening and invite
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