What is a BEARS Field Day Like

 

Join BEARS at the Manchester Recreational Center.

Bring your family and friends, invite others to visit us and experience the amateur radio hobby outdoors on a warm sunny June weekend.

Share your favorite dish or snacks for lunch or dinner on Saturday, Water and soft drinks provided by the BEARS club.   

Amateur Radio control operators who are members of BEARS will help guide you to use the equipment on frequencies you may not be licensed to use but they are.  The BEARS will show you how to computer log contacts you make with other distant stations across the country and even into Canada, South America and Europe if we are lucky. The BEARS are always happiest to answer all your questions on operating a temporary field station.

BEARS Members

Everyone is encouraged to participate and make contacts on the air. You will sit behind one of our stations with a BEARS licensed control operator and you will be making long distance contacts before you know it.

Bring your pickle ball racquets and enjoy the courts too.  Pitch a tent and camp overnight with some of our braver BEARS members. 

Map and the location of the park
 

What to expect at a 
BEARS Field Day Weekend

Saturday 9:00 am 
Orientation and begin set-up 

Saturday 11:00 
Meet to confirm operations, 
finish set-up as necessary

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Saturday 12:30 
Enjoy hot dogs, hamburgers, chips etc. soft drinks and water are all provided by the club.

Saturday 2:00 
ARRL Field day official radio operating start time is
1800UTC while Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is UTC-4 hours

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Saturday 4:30 or 5:00
Dinner is served and we continue to socialize and operate on the air through the evening.

Sunday morning 

More of the same radio operations and making and logging contacts

Sunday 12:00 

Cease operations and 
begin tear-down.