You have probably heard that field day is going to be different this year. Many clubs, including ours, will not be assembling in a central location. The ARRL has recognized this and made some one-time rule changes (waivers) for Field Day 2020.  The big one is that home stations (Class D) can now get credit for contacting other home stations. Previously, clubs could contact home stations, homes could contact clubs, and clubs could contact each other.  This change is to allow people to operate from home and still have Field Day type fun.

The following is an overview of the changes for Field Day 2020. The list is not exhaustive and you should refer to the ARRL Field Day page for all the details.

K3PSG will be On-The-Air – KA3RNF and W3GWC will be operating as K3PSG at the Butler County Emergency Operations Center (EOC). K3PSG will be a fully-qualified Class F (EOC) station. Thank you Butler County Emergency Services for your hospitality and support!

CALL SIGNS – Club members should use their own call sign, not the club call sign for Field Day.  Credit will still go to the club as long as everyone uses the exact same club name when uploading their results to the ARRL. We will use the following designation for our club:

Butler County AR Public Srvc Group

This name must be submitted exactly as written above. Variations such as “BCARPSG”,  “Butler Co. Public Service Group”, “Butler County PSG” will not work. Computers are processing the results and computers are not smart enough to know these are all the same thing.