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Mitigation of Covid-19 is altering all of our lives.

We will be conducting Field Day from home this year as Class E (emergency power) or Class D (commercial power).

And/Or Scott (KY7A) suggested a group of mobile-capable people could go out to e.g. Cinder Hills and set up stations within a 1000 ft. diameter circle and operate Class A (6A for 6 people) and maintain a 6-foot separation between people at all times for COVID-19 concerns!

 - here are some early thoughts.

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Letter Excerpts from Prospective CARC and NADXA Participants:

AE7OH Correspondance with The Field Day Program and Services Committee

Email from Ron (KG7OH) on organization

Email from Bill (KQ1S) on small group Wireless for coordination

Email from Joe (W7LUX) on emergency power operation

As discussed at the Janice's leadership meeting and the March CARC meeting, we are planning to change the the format and emphasis of Field Day this year. We want to attract more attention to Amateur Radio and concentrate on increasing skills and hopefully attracting new members.

Ron (KG7OH - rbgerlak@gmail.com) I (AE7OH - phil.brunner@gmail.com are working on this but will welcome help and ideas from anyone! (any volunteers?)
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NOTE: Correction from Scott (KY7A) - Looks like I'm wrong on the GROUP idea - wishful thinking on my part!

If we're operating from home, we cannot use a club call.
We must operate as individuals and cannot combine scores.

Correspondance with The Field Day Program and Services Committee

Scott noted that we could get a small mobile group together and operate from e.g.Cinder Hills
while maintaining a 6-foot separation between all participants!

Some preliminary thoughts:

~~In looking at the rules, we can form one or two groups with everyone working from home and operating as a unit(s).~~
ARRL suggests class E (all emergency power).
We could also do class D (commercial power) for those who can't or do not want to establish emergency power capability.
~~And we could do both. We can use KC7KCN for one group and W7YS for the other group.~~
I can see no way to do a GOTA station and comply with social distancing.

With each group, we have to divide up the operations so that not more than one station is operating in any band-mode slot at any one time. This presents some interesting challenges. How do we coordinate station operations and how do we pass around log sheets/files?

We should be very liberal with our operating assignments and get as many hams involved as possible - e.g. a 42D group and a 31E group? :)

We probably need an online band-mode slot checkout tool including a means of passing activity logs around.
This needs to be easy to use because we will hopefully be dealing with several inexperienced hams as well as us old-timers.
An online read/write spreadsheet is one posibility:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oVGdBj-Yj7xp3ctLZsL9ZEnrF2RKazro1OBPnU_8bvs/edit?ts=5e8f9d6e#gid=0

Ways to communicate include a Wiki, a special read/write online folder, Facebook, telephone, email, mailing list, a blog, radio, and sign-up sheets.

We might want to limit xmtr power to 150 Watts to get the x2 multiplier. We can go for many of the bonus points, probably more to advertise Amateur Radio than to get the points.

Any thoughts, corrections or volunteers?

Letter from Joe (W7LUX) on emergency power operation