{"id":300,"date":"2018-12-29T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/?p=300"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:12:03","slug":"winter-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/2018\/12\/29\/winter-field-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-315 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/polar-bear22-jpg-275x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/polar-bear22-jpg-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/polar-bear22-jpg.png 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/>Winter Field Day, sponsored by the Winter Field Day Association (WFDA) , and takes place the last full weekend in January.\u00a0 For 2019 that will be Janurary\u00a0 26th and 27th.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/><br \/>\u201cDon\u2019t let those winter doldrums keep you locked up in the house,\u201d the WFDA says. \u201cGet out and play some radio!\u201d The WFDA said it believes that maintaining operating skills should not be limited to fair-weather scenarios.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/><br \/>There are three entry categories \u2014 indoor, outdoor, and home. The rule are similar to those for ARRL Field Day. Operation will take place on all HF bands except 12, 17, 30, and 60 meters, as well as on VHF, UHF, and satellite. The event runs 24 hours. Starting at 1:00 pm CDT on Saturday and running to 1:00 pm on Sunday.\u00a0 \u00a0US and Canadian stations exchange call sign, operating category, and ARRL or RAC section.<br \/><br \/>The Omaha Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) will be participating in Winter Field Day from the local EDS building at 10629 Burt Circle and invites all interested amateur radio operators to participate with them.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0At this point everything is still in the planning phase, but so far the plan is to operate as in the Indoor category with at least 2 HF stations one voice station and one digital stations.\u00a0 The stations will run off of generator and battery power.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hours of operation will depend on band conditions and the number of participants to work those late night hours.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/><br \/>If you&#8217;d like to participate send an email to winterfd@aksarbenarc.org\u00a0<\/figure>\r\n<figure><\/figure>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\u00a0<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Field Day, sponsored by the Winter Field Day Association (WFDA) , and takes place the last full weekend in January.\u00a0 For 2019 that will be Janurary\u00a0 26th and 27th.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t let those winter doldrums keep you locked up in the house,\u201d the WFDA says. \u201cGet out and play some radio!\u201d The WFDA said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,6,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoucements","category-ares","category-events","category-satern","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdares.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}