TARAWeb: Field Day 2008

Field Day is a nationwide emergency communications preparedness drill held annually on the fourth week end of June. This year's Field Day will be held on June 25 & 26. Field Day is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). The ARRL is a nationwide organization of amateur radio operators.

Field Day's main focus is emergency communications preparedness. Amateur radio clubs across the country, including TARA, sponsor a field day site which conducts communications under simulated emergency conditions. Amateur operators prove their readiness for a genuine emergency by operating without the benefit of any commercial power source.

While emergency communications is the main focus of Field Day, amateur operators also seize the opportunity Field Day presents to inform the public about the many benefits offered by the amateur radio hobby, including public service communications and educational programs. And of course, the TARA Field Day site offers lots of good conversation and good food!

The public is invited to TARA Field Day site which this year will be at Frear Park in Troy, next to the tennis courts. If you can't make it to our site, find out where you can participate in your community! Get involved and support your local club!

TARA will once again be having it's Field Day BBQ on Saturday - June 25. It includes the "All you Can Eat" afternoon buffet. There is a charge for this of course and you can join us for this special BBQ by notifying Karen Smith, KS2O, immediately.

After last year's Field Day all the QSO's were counted and filed with the ARRL. TARA made some 482 QSO's under the call of N2TY, for a total of 1,226 in the ENY section (Eastern New York). Results can be found in the December 2010 issue of QST.

YEAR	CALL	NOVICE	CLASS	#MEMBERS	QSO's	SCORE
1992	NY2U	N2JZK	3A	77	371	1628
1993	NY2U	NONE	2A	75	1107	3618
1994	NY2U	KB2JZI	3A	30	1801	5966
1995	KB2UGD	N2YNP	3A	26	1325	5220
1996	KB2UGD	N2YNP	3A	35	998	3858
1997	N2TY	KB2SPM	3A	50	908	3048
1998	N2TY	KC2BRY	3A	41	667	2350
1999	N2TY	KB2KFV	3A	45	984	3136
2000	N2TY	KB2UUC	3A	55	1341	3804
2001	N2TY	NONE	4A	55	1170	3640
2002	N2TY	NONE	4A	68	1461	5082
2003	N2TY	NONE	3A	62	1088	2988
2004	N2TY	NONE	3A	63	783	3062
2005	N2TY	NONE	3A	42	890	3752
2006	N2TY	KS2O	3A	53	1396	4162
2007	N2TY	KL7TJZ	3A	49	771	2556
2008	N2TY	NONE	3A	84	1094	4036
2009	N2TY	W2TRY	3A	65	931	3492
2010	N2TY	NONE	3A	52	482	1226

If you would like additional information or better yet, if you would like to volunteer your services, please contact one of the names listed below. We need your support!