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ARRL announces Field Day rule changes for 2022
Posted: 09 Feb 2022 07:47 AM PST
http://w2lj.blogspot.com/2022/02/arrl-announces-field-day-rule-changes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
From the ARRL Website:
Some New Rules Going into Effect this Year for ARRL Field Day
02/09/2022
After taking a few detours over the past couple of years due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, ARRL Field Day rules are being updated on a permanent
basis starting this summer. ARRL conducted a Field Day community survey
with invitations propagated far and wide, and direct emails sent to more
than 15,000 individuals and ARRL-affiliated clubs. After sorting through, reviewing, and discussing the survey results, the ARRL Programs and
Services Committee recommended a number of rule changes for ARRL Field Day, which will take place this year over the June 25 – 26 weekend.
Starting this year, the maximum PEP output for a transmitter used by anyone submitting a Field Day log will be 100 W. The power multiplier of 2 will
remain in place, and the high-power category will be removed from the
rules. Until this year, the maximum low-power limit had been 150 W for most ARRL-sponsored operating events. The power multiplier will remain at 5 for
QRP participants running a maximum of 5 W or less. As previously announced,
100 W is now the low-power category limit for all ARRL and IARU HF
Contests, effective January 1, 2022.
A couple of changes instituted initially as accommodations for the COVID-19 pandemic will remain. Class D (Home) stations will continue to be able to
earn points for contacts with other Class D stations. The club aggregate scoring change initiated in 2020 as a temporary measure will become part of
the permanent rules. In the aggregate scoring plan, the scores of
individual stations are combined under the score of a single club.
Another change, involving Rule 7.3.2 Media Publicity, has been modified.
Rules to date have offered 100 bonus points for attempting to obtain
publicity and demonstrating same. With the ease of posting via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and various other media websites, Field Day
participants will now be required to obtain publicity, not just try to do
so. Any combination of bona fide media hits would qualify for the bonus
points. For example, posting the details of your upcoming or ongoing Field
Day activity, or your Field Day results, on a club or news media site, on Facebook, or via Twitter and Instagram would meet the bonus criteria.
Photos and videos are encouraged as part of media posts.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
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Low attendence?
Posted: 08 Feb 2022 12:36 PM PST
http://w2lj.blogspot.com/2022/02/low-attendence.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
From what I've been reading on QRP-L, Freeze Your Buns Off, held this past Saturday didn't have much in the way of participation. I'm partly to blame
for that as I haven't been in the mood lately to get on the radio. But is
this a creeping phenomena?
The warmer weather staples, QRP To The Field, The Flight of the Bumblebees,
the NJQRP Skeeter Hunt and for that matter, an October event, The Zombie Shuffle still seem to have a decent amount of participation. But other
events seem to be experiencing a decreasing amount of participation. Maybe that's just my misguided perception?
I think a big part of this is publicity and advertising. If you want a successful event, you can't announce it once and expect everyone to
just "show up". There has to be way more than that. Multiple announcements
(not to the point of SPAM, of course, but more than one) need to be made.
And the announcements need to be made in as many outlets as possible. QRP-L
is a good starter, but other QRP e-mail group reflectors. as well as social media sites need to be utilized.
Maybe that seems like too much effort on the part of the organizers. I
don't know. But it seem to me, if you want an event with lots of
participation, you have to get the word out early and often. You can't sit
back on the laurels of past participation and assume everyone will remember
for next year, ESPECIALLY when the sunspots are in the doldrums. We seem to
be coming out of that now, though - maybe that will help.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
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