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DARCI Field Day Update!

Published 2018-09-03 | By J69DS _Admin

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On Saturday June 23, 2018, the DARCI, under the stewardship of the Field Day chairman John Mitchel (J73MH), held its second post Hurricane Maria field day at the Marigot Fisheries complex located in the north east of the island (near to the Douglas-Charles airport).

The field day was well attended with over 30 persons present, the majority of whom were student hams. They got a chance to design and build a 80m OCF dipole, assemble and get a station on air (there were 2 HF stations present). Regional and International contacts were made on various HF bands (20m, 40m, 80m) as well as VHF/UHF with other local hams elsewhere on the island.

Some of the digital modes were explained with FT8 highlighted. The practicality of Winlink over HF was also exhibited.

The day culminated with a mass check-in on the DMR TG91 Worldwide Net (held every Saturday). The mass check-in caught the attention of the DMR net controllers.

The day was a grand success with persons calling for a follow up event. J73MH advised that the next field day event would take place somewhere in the north of the island.

Thank you.

Hilkiah / J73HGL

Secretary , DARCI

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Orginal article here: http://cewn.org/darci-field-day-2018/

J7 – DARCI Field Day

Published 2018-04-21 | By J69DS _Admin

The Dominica Amateur Radio Club Inc. (DARCI) held field day number 2 today, April 21 2018. The said day started at 7.30am local time and ended about 1.30pm local time.
The purpose of the field day was to exercise our state of preparedness and expose the novice class and students to a field day and get hands on experience to setting up equipment and to operate and make contact with the other field day stations.
Stations were setup at the following locations: the Club site J73Z at Canefield, Botanic gardens, Police Headquarters, Grandbay, Goodwill, Castle Bruce, Portsmouth, Salsbury and Cappuchine.
During the exercise we communicated via HF radio between all our stations across the island. We also had good communications with Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, Saint Lucia and Anguilla. The students were exposed to all the various modes of communications we can use as hams. The students also made contact with other amateur radio operators. The purpose of the field day exercise was achieved with good attendance and lots of fun.
The frequencies used were 3.800.00 MHz Lsb and 7.210.00 MHz Lsb.
DARCI thanks all who attended and participated and of course all the operators: J73MBQ, J73EW, J73KW, J73MH, J73AH, J73EJC, J73CI, J73WA, J73HJ, J73CC, J73JT, J73GAR, J72HGL, J73RJ, J79WTA and J72GPG.
And a special thanks to J73MH John our Field Day Chairman!
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Roger
J73MBQ

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ADRASEC – Public event a success also

Published 2018-03-27 | By J69DS _Admin

ADRASEC together with the FMHAMRA club and the CB operators and the FRS operators held a successful event at Anse Figuier, Riviere Pilote this past Saturday the 24th as the following album shows. There was an excellent turnout by all the operator with many operating positions setup. It also got great media exposure on the TV channels and in print.

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