Get Ready For Field Day 2008 [AERO]

Courtesy The Aero Aerial Newsletter June 2008

It’s June. The sun is high in the sky. The trees and plants are in full bloom.
At a sleepy camp in Northern Baltimore County the antennas will soon be reaching the sky.
Field Day 2008 will again be held by Aero at Camp Genyara from Friday June 27th through Sunday June 29th.

Everyone is invited to come join the fun. The setup crew usually shows up after 3 p.m. Friday afternoon to get the buildings ready. A couple of antennas are put up for some overnight ragchew fun. Last year there were even movies and telescopes for stargazing! Serious setup begins on Saturday morning and it’s off to the races at 2 p.m. local time for the start of Field Day. Operations continue for 24 hours, making as many QSOs as we can until the final whistle blows at 2 p.m. on Sunday. This year Aero will again be joined by The Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society. We will operate W3PGA as 3A and also have a GOTA station AE3RO. There will be opportunities for everyone to get on the air on most of the HF bands as well as 6 and 2 meters. We will operate various modes including CW, Voice and Digital. Best of all there will be food. So come up to Camp Genyara and join the fun.

Directions and Map (after the jump):

• From Baltimore, take I 83 North to Exit 36, Route 439 East.
• Take 439 east approximately 1 mile to BOND RD.
• Turn left onto BOND RD.
• Take BOND RD. approximately 1/2 mile to a dirt road on the left. (If you come to a barn and farmhouse on the left, you have gone too far.)
• Turn left onto the dirt road; follow it through the field and through a grove of tall pine trees. The pine trees have created a tunnel over the road. The Field Day site is at the end of the pine trees.

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