24th ARRL EMA Section Field Day Directory 2024
ARRL FD June 24-25, 2023

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Eastern Mass ARRL

Field Day Tourists, 2023

Alternate maps

Land-use satelite basemap

Infrared satellite image, red=foliage, blue is settled/pavement; shows I95/Rt24 corridors and metro areas clearly.

Zoom-back to all of New England Division

Colored elevations basemap, showing traditional club locations in other sections

Interactive 2023 EMA FD Map

Zoomable slippy map with 2023 FD sites marked, which link to site information.

Sites and reported scores for 2023

with club and site links, and FD@Home scores for FD clubs.

Map Legend

List of Touring Leadership and Staff

Our touring officials -- distinguished by badge colors and shades thereof.

ARRL Leadership

Elected Leadership

• Fred Kemmerer AB1OC (NE Div. Director)

  • First elected 2021.

  • 2022

  • Tour details TBD

  • 2021 - Fred operated with his home club Nashua ARS N1FD (NH Section).

  • To see rest of New England on a map, see the ARRL HQ National FD Locator, or NE Div alternative map or in History.

• Mike Raisbeck K1TWF (ARRL Vice President, former NE Div. Vice Director)

  • Tours the EMA and adjacent sections in W1-land, but spent 2008-2009 in K7-land on FD. :-( Returned to W1 in 2010 touring Vermont.

  • 2023 -

  • 2022 -

    Touring plan is tentative.

  • 2019

    1. Cape Anne ARA Clubhouse
    2. North Shore RA Topsfield Fair-Ground
    3. PRA&PARC West Newbury Mill Pond park
    4. Nashua ARS N1FD (NH Section)
    5. Nashoba Valley ARC Heald Street Orchard, Pepperell Conservation land
    6. Algonquin ARC Marlboro EOC/CFS/Fire HQ
    7. Framingham Amateur Radio Assn Fara.org Christa McAuliffe Branch Library
    8. Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society hosting New England Amateur Radio, Inc. and MIT Lincoln Labs at New England Sci-Tech
    9. Wellesley ARS + Zola Center/Middlesex, Needham War Memorial Park,
    10. Waltham ARA Prospect Hill Park, Waltham MA
    11. Part of Westford Concord Rod and Gun Club
    12. Billerica ARS and EMA/CERT Billerica EMA Barracks

• Jon McCombie, N1ILZZ (EMA Section Manager)

  • Traditionally the SM tours EMA.

EMA Staff

For fully list of Section staff see the homepage.

• Phil Temples, K9HI (EMA ASM & NE DIV Vice Dir. )

  • Regularly toured as EMA SM and as EMA ACC. Still touring as ASM&VDIR

  • 2023 -

  • 2022 -

    1. Hampden County Radio Association in Agawam (WMA)

    2. Southwick EMA FD (WMA)

    3. Worcester Emergency Communications Team FD (WMA)

    4. Algonquin ARC at Crow Island Airpark in Stow (with Crow Island ARA & Framingham Amateur Radio Assn Fara.org )

       Yesterday upon re-entering Eastern MA, I expended considerable time and effort attempting to reach the Algonquin ARC on Crow Island. Alas, it wasn't meant to be. My GPS betrayed me. It kept dumping me on a dead-end street in a subdivision.
       (Yes, there's special instructions to enter the Airpark on the Site Page. )

    5. Police Amateur Radio Team (PART) of Westford at The Concord Rod & Gun Club in Concord

       They had a very busy and organized setup as usual. The PART folks served me a wonderful meal.

    6. New England Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society & New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NEAR) at New England Sci-Tech in Natick

       As always, there were lots of youth running around having a great time--both operating radios for Field Day and playing with the Center's other equipment. W0MXX's father pulled me aside and showed me what his 12 year old son had constructed: a rubik's-cube sized model of an electronic experiment designed to capture kinetic energy in low-gravity. The package flew in the nose cone of a rocket launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia just days earlier. When I was young Max's age I was riding my bicycle and throwing rocks in the creek!

    7. Wellesley ARS at Needham War Memorial Park Gazebo

       got a firsthand look at the innovative LoRA network on 900 MHz that several of its club members are working on. They had a working node at Field Day that was making multiple "hops" to sites several miles distant.

    8. Boston ARC at Hale Education Center cabins in Westwood (the first time at that QTH)

    9. Whitman ARC at Old Colony YMCA East Bridgewater

  • 2021 tour

  • 2019 Phil K9HI rode with Tom K1TW/SM above. (Did likewise in 2018)

  • Earlier: 2014, 2012, 2004.

• Dan Brown W1DAN (TC)

  • regularly - organizes and operates Wellesley in Needham.

  • 2021. Operating/Mentoring with Sci Tech Amateur Radio Society.

    Club base WARS remains on COVID-19 stand-down in 2021.

• Bill N1VUX (EMA FD Directory Editor)

  • 2023 -

  • 2022 -

    • Northeast Amateur Radio Clubat USAF Fourth Cliff
      The view of the ocean was "absolutely gorgeous" but the sea-breeze was even better.
      
      I had a nice visit with the two YLs from the KM1CC Marconi historic radio club, Barbara N1NS and _____, and a retired Navy radioman/ham, Ken, who were both interested in the WW2 Army history of the site as well as USAF radar research initial re-use (prior to becoming USAF/DoD recreation area).
      
      Ken and I had a short chat with a USAF cargo pilot who has enjoyed chats with MARS stations from his cargo plane.
      
      My annual ARRL FD visit is also my annual Coast Defense Study Group site preservation visit. (I have more information on Air & Coast Defense sites sometimes active in Field Day.)

  • 2021 - (toured more sites)

EMA ARES Leadership & Staff

• Rob Macedo KD1CY ( SEC+SKYWARN )

  • Sometimes operates at Acushnet EOC, or handles SKYWARN issues at NWS BOX, with touring as available.

  • 2012 - Operated WX1BOX in Class F between SKYWARN actications at NWS BOX.

• Frank O'Laughlin WQ1O (DEC-Cape/Isles)

  • Usually operates at FARA (Falmouth) &/or with Barnstable.

  • 2023 -

  • 2022 -

  • Visiting Falmouth FARA Inc operations trailer at Falmouth Morse Pond School, and Barnstable ARC, 3A, with Potluck dinner at Brewster Sportsman's Club.

  • 2021

    • "Barnstable ARC BrewSC Brewster Sportsman's Club"

      The Barnstable ARC had their field day at the Brewster Sportsman's Club in Brewster on Cape Cod. They had a nice setup inside with several HF rigs and other good gear. Generator was nice, portable and quiet. Nice tower setup outside. As the ARES DEC, it was good to see the club folks in person again.

    • "Falmouth ARA Inc at Falmouth Morse Pond School"

      It was great to visit the Falmouth ARA Field Day on Saturday as the ARES DEC here on Cape Cod. I was shown the very nice and capable Emcomm trailer that was built by the club. It was excellently configured and designed. Hats off to Ralph Swenson, N1YHS, and the others in the club who helped bring this project to life. From power distribution, to the great rigs inside, it was really nice to see. Field day looked great and very portable! Great job down there, folks

    • Prior years: 2019 2018 2017 2014 2012 2010 2009 2004

  • Jim Palmer KB1KQW (DEC-Essex)

    • Typically participating with NSRA (which skipped 2020 & 2021 on COVID-19 hiatus)

      2022 - Operating with NSRA which returned to Topsfield Fairgrounds

    • 2017 - Participating with NSRA, hosting Rob KD1CY/ASEC and Mike KI1U, ARRL HQ Emergency Preparedness Manager.

  • Steve Schwarm W3EVE (DEC-Operations)

    • Typically Touring South-East Mass & Cape

    • 2022 site visits - Cape/Southeast Mass

    • Previous 2019 2018 2017 2014 2012 2010 2009 2004

  • Stu Solomon W1SHS ( >ASM & DEC-DEC Norfolk County & Administration & Planning )

    • 2022 site visits planned Sci-Tech, Wellesley ARS, and maybe PART of Westford

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  § EMA FD History 1999-2023 § About (Notes, Credits)
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