San Antonio Area Hams
Field Day 2008 |
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What is FIELD DAY? According to the Amateur Radio Relay League, the object is, "To work as many stations as possible and in doing so, to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less than optimal conditions." That’s the official reason for having FIELD DAY, but another reason is for Amateur Radio Operators and their families to get together to have LOTS OF FUN and show Visitors many of the things that can be done with Amateur Radio – from the old Morse code to the new satellite communications and latest digital modes. This year, there are some new locations and old locations to choose from. We're listing all of those we found registered at the ARRL Locator Site, plus some we knew about via email announcements. We're covering San Antonio first, then spreading out to other towns / communities near us, plus one location not so near us (Corpus Christi) just because they asked us to list them. PHOTOS WANTED - Take digital photos at each FD event you visit, and then contact us for instructions on where to upload your photos for posting to the 2008 Field Day Photo Section. Credit will be given to the source of each photo. Learn more from ARRL
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2008 FIELD DAY SITE INDEX
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San Antonio AARO (callsign AA5RO) holds their event at the pavilion along side the running track behind University Hospital, 4502 Medical Drive, near corner of Louis Pasteur.
Here are photos from AARO's 2008 Field Day
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SARC (Callsign W5SC) holds their event at the Shavano Park Police Department, near the corner of DeZavala and NW Military. Here are photos from SARC's 2008 Field Day
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San Antonio ROOST (Callsign W5ROS) decided to return to San Antonio for this year's event, instead of the old location SE of San Antonio at the Meyer Ranch in Hobson Texas. Here are photos from SARC's 2008 Field Day
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San Antonio Texas Baptist Men will They shut down before I could visit them on late, late Saturday night, so nothing to report here unless someone sends us photos.
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Boerne |
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New Braunfels This club faced some last minute changes, literally at the last minute. They showed up Saturday morning at their normal location, the Comal County Fair Grounds, only to find it chained up tight with no caretakers around to open the gates. So they drove over to a member's house out on River Road northwest of New Braunfels and set up there. They sent out quick emails to the club and interested parties to alert everyone to the new location, which must have worked, cause I was able to find them without any problems. Good news, Mike's radio shack had A/C inside plus comfortable chairs and a bed to crash out on overnight, but they ran the generators and extension cords from the outside to power all the radios in accordance with the FD rules. They set up temp antennas outside in the yard, then had a BBQ later on in the evening. Here are photos from GVARC's 2008 Field Day
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SAN MARCOS No Photos received |
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 CORPUS CHRISTICCARC - Corpus Christi ARC website www.w5ms.com
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Instead of posting all the photos and narrative here, I'll simply provide a link to their website where they already did that work for me. |
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W5LRD No FD Photos received |
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On
June 28th & 29th, Amateur Radio Operators (Hams) all over the
World will participate in an annual exercise called FIELD DAY.
While you can see the site from Babcock Road,
you need to drive around behind the hospital and enter guard gate off
Floyd Curl & Medical (same as used for their meetings). See map below. 
San Antonio 
hold their Field Day event at the 
San Antonio Baptist Association Parking Lot 
AUSTIN
We operated from the air conditioned confides of the repeater building. 
CORPUS CHRISTI
Corpus Christi
