Field Day 2020
Lrra to Host Next Weekend
Ossipee-Amateur radio enthusiasts throughout New Hampshire’s Lakes Region and southwestern Maine are invited to join the Lakes Region Repeater Association next weekend for its annual Field Day.
This year’s event, which begins Saturday, June 27 at 10 a.m., will run through Sunday, June 28 at noon at Constitution Park on Route 25 in Ossipee. Set-up will begin Saturday morning, and all LRRA members and guest are welcome to enjoy a free lunch at noon on Saturday, with hotdogs and all the fixings courtesy of Hannaford. A couple of members are also planning to bring their RV’s to support overnight radio operations, rest and relaxation.
The LRRA is a happy organization of HAM radio enthusiasts who love to meet, talk and play . The organization owns and manages a two way radio system that re-transmits weak signals at a higher power, enabling them to cover longer distances without degradation and provides back-up for emergency communication needs in the event of a commercial power failure. For more information about the organization, or for further details on Field Day please click here.
The annual event called “Field Day” is the climax of the week-long Amateur Radio Week sponsored by the American Radio Relay League, the national association for Amateur Radio.
Using emergency power supplies, local ham operators constructed emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and backyards around the country.
Their slogan, “When All Else Fails, Ham Radio Works” are more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis.
“The fastest way to turn a crisis into a total disaster is to lose communications,” said Allen Pitts of ARRL. “From earthquakes, tsunami and tornadoes, ham radio provides the most reliable communication networks in the first critical hours of the events. Because ham radios are not dependent on the Internet, cell towers or other infrastructure, they work when nothing else is available.”
