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  • Field Day 26 Innovations

    Welcome to the DSRC Field Day! Laura K2WWF made sure passersby knew “what was up.” Photos by KD2TCH.

    This year’s big onnovation was the use of a tethered drone to get rope up to the top of trees. Ben AC2YD has perfected a method to do this. (Click images to make them big!)

    Ben Sets Up the Fishing Line and Drone
    A great use of old car floor mats
    The fish line can be dropped if need be
    The plane on the left is not us. Rocky Hill Airport nearby.
    The OCF Dipole was much higher this year!
    So was the N2CTW “Rigel 6” antenna…. worked Cuba and Mexico on 6M

    See also: Field Day ’26 Operators

    And Field Day 26 Start and Finish

    More to come…

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  • Field Day ’26 Operators

    As we sort through the photos of this year’s ARRL Field Day #ARRLFD, we find some excellent photos of operators, thanks to W2JJJ, NG2V, N2FXO

    NG2V does CW
    N2FXO does Phone
    WA2EHN does late night
    And KB3BUT, N3RPM and KD2TCH take a break from late-night operating.
    Operators were “Standing By”

    So far this is the second post on Field Day… here is the first:
    https://n2re.org/field-day-26-start-and-finish

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  • Field Day 26 Start and Finish…

    There are lots of Stories and Photos to share from the weekend… but for now here are two setup photos and one final one.

    Cushla begins setting up an HF station
    John F and Fran O’C set up the big HF tent

    (more to come!)

    The Final Cleanup Crew!

  • Field Day is June 27 & 28

    Plans are coming together… we have the reservation and the porta-potty! Now, where to put the stations? More news soon.

  • DSRC encourages participation in Museum Ships Weekend

    Years ago when the Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio Station was being formed as the former USS New Jersey was being towed into Camden, hams from BNJARS came to visit us at a DSRC meeting. They recruited members to come restore the half dozen antennas on the 14 story battleship, run coaxial cable to replace the “demilitarized” hardline, and, with modern radios, work the world.

    The DSRC has continued to work with BNJARS on special events.

    How many antennas are in this photo? (A BUNCH!)

    In recent years their station (NJ2BB) took over coordination of the Museum Ships Weekend, a worldwide fun event. Over 100 ships and ship-memorials from Russia to Turkey, Missouri to New Zealand will participate.

    Some are Battleships, with remarkable antennas… some are submarines– with simple surface antennas. One US Civil War Ironclad Gunboat has been retrofitted with radio, and there are Icebreakers and Minesweepers and even a Hydrofoil.

    To learn more, visit: https://nj2bb.org/museum/index.html

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