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Posted: **Tue Jun 11, 2024 9:33 pm**

ARRL Field Day 2024

ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. Each year over 35,000 amateurs gather with their clubs, friends or simply by themselves to operate.

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The purpose of this net will include:

Description of Field Day

An invitation to experience an actual Field Day

Provide incentives to non Hams to earn their license

Explain why it is important to learn and appreciate the value of emergency operations and emergency preparedness.

Information on how to set up an emergency communications station

IMPORTANT NOTE: You do not need to be a licensed Amateur (Ham) to participate in Field Day

There are unlimited variations of how to participate in a Field Day event, and we appreciate input from all those who have participated in the past. Join us!

Posted: **Tue Jun 11, 2024 10:07 pm**

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It has been a circus of events with the President feeling the pressure of not being able to deliver on many of his long-term "gun control" actions so he has relied on Executive Branch moves. For example, using the ATF to redefine and make rules that "act as laws" while the ATF is not a legislative body, to rein-in control. While his son, Hunter, has been charged with and found guilty of three firearms related issues. And, while that news continues to provide a storyline, we have the following to highlight:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/05/supr ... t-dispute/

The Supreme Court on Thursday [05/30/24] reinstated a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association, alleging that a New York official violated the group’s First Amendment rights when she urged banks and insurance companies not to do business with it in the wake of the 2018 shooting at a Florida high school. In a unanimous decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the justices agreed that the NRA had made out a case that Maria Vullo, then the head of New York’s Department of Financial Services, had gone too far in her efforts to get companies and banks to cut ties with the NRA, crossing over the line from efforts to persuade the companies and banks – which would be permitted – to attempts to coerce them, which are not.

[In an 9-0 ruling, Justice] Sotomayor explained that the NRA is not immune from government investigations and regulations. And, she observed, Vullo was “free to criticize the NRA and pursue the conceded violations of New York insurance law.” What she could not do, however, was use her power as the head of the Department of Financial Services to “threaten enforcement actions” against entities that the department regulated “to punish or suppress the NRA’s gun-promotion advocacy.”

There is also the ATF pistol brace ruling:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/2024040 ... ra-members

The Biden Administration was also held to task concerning Veteran's Rights and this continues to be a "hot topic":

https://www.nraila.org/articles/2024061 ... -the-reins

In March, we reported on an appropriations rider that corrected a longstanding and shameful practice by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of reporting beneficiaries to NICS as “mental defectives” prohibited from having guns, merely because they had been determined to need financial oversight. President Biden grudgingly signed that provision into law, enraging his anti-gun supporters, who immediately began a misinformation campaign that leveraged harmful and inaccurate stereotypes about the beneficiaries and misrepresented the meaning of the law. Meanwhile, the VA was forced to stop its reporting, sparking demands from anti-gunners that it find a new way to ban its beneficiaries from having guns.

Now a new military appropriations bill is making its way towards Joe Biden’s desk, and this time he is insisting that he will veto the package because, among other things, it continues to protect veterans’ Second Amendment rights. Pro-gun members of Congress, however, have called his bluff and made the protections for veterans in this version of the bill even stronger.

Added after the net but pertinent:

[The] NRA filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit in support of the plaintiffs and in affirmation of the district court’s ruling. The brief argues that California’s law violates the Second Amendment because the right to keep and bear arms includes the right to acquire firearms. In this vein, multiple gun purchases per month were common in early America, and there were no historical limitations on the number of firearms that law-abiding citizens could purchase.

Read the amicus brief here: https://shared.nrapvf.org/sharedmedia/1 ... amicus.pdf

The California Rifle and Pistol Association has this to report as of 06/07/24:

Breakdown of current legislative session in CA: https://crpa.org/wp-content/uploads/202 ... Jun-24.pdf

If you get a chance visit AM 590 or the podcast with Rick Travis, Legislative Director for the CRPA, on the Firing Line Radio Show: https://am590theanswer.com/radioshow/fi ... radio-show

The CRPA PAC has announced its November Endorsements on June 7th: ELECTION DAY is November 5th, 2024! Make sure you vote! https://crpa.org/programs/campaigns-elections/

Field Day comments from the Shootin' Shack: I was looking for potential sites to visit in the Inland Empire (Riverside County) and there were only a handful of sites. If you want to traffic, you gotta put the word out and promote your event! https://www.arrl.org/field-day-locator

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Posted: **Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:46 pm**

SOME BACKGROUND OF FIELD DAY & THE MANY WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

There are a number of purposes and benefits to Field Day, but at the core, it is an opportunity to set up an emergency radio station, in less than ideal conditions, and to make contacts at long distances (and short ones too.) As this is also a contest to get the highest number of contacts, the success of operators is also measured by how many States in which contacts can be made. Each State is divided into sections, and contacts in each section will complete that State. MORE ON THE NET.

There are no shortages of Field Day locations around the USA, so there is no need to travel great distances. The ARRL has created a Field Day locator, which can supply interested parties with a location nearby. Here is the link for the locator:

USA FIELD DAY LOCATOR: https://www.arrl.org/field-day-locator

Pictures can always do a better job of conveying ideas and descriptions, and we offer these to showcase just a few of various Field Day events which take place every year.

The Field Day Ham Shack