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QRP Afield on Sept 20th

LOCATION: Van Nest Park, West Windsor( Grovers mill), NJ

==> From NJ Turnpike
Take exit 8 (Hightstown) and follow 33 West through Hightstown and across 130. The road becomes 571 here. Directions are as below for 130.

==> From Route 130
Turn left onto Princeton-Hightstown Road - Route 571 West (toward Princeton). Follow through several traffic lights - you will pass a mobil station, gun club, and come to fields for West Windsor high school. As you come to the school, take a right at the light onto Clarksville Road continue on this road until come to a stop on Cranbury Road - should be first stop sign you come to. Turn right onto Cranbury Road - Route 615; Be careful, as this is a busy and weird intersection. The park is on the right immediately past a white house and green fire hydrant

==> From Princeton:
Take Washington Road south toward Route 1. Stay on Washington road as cross Route 1 and continue past Sarnoff entrance (on left), as you pass tennis buidling - a big red warehouse, Washington Road cuts off to the left - take that left and go over the train overpass for the Princeton Junction Train station. As you come to bottom of the overpass, take a left at the light - this is Cranbury Road - Route 615. Stay on 615 past Red barn which says Grovers Mill (it is a hardware store) follow the road around for about 1/4 of a mile. The park is on the right immediately after a white house and green fire hydrant

There are rest room facilities on site. In addition, to the 6 or so tables in the covered pavilion, there are 4 or 5 picinc tables scattered around the park that we can probably use if we want to spread out.

George (at least) will plan to arrive there around 9:30 or so and monitor 146.52 for talk-in if needed.

TIMES:

Arrival time (for those who want to set up stations and antennas) is going to be around 10:00 Saturday morning ... this is a reasonable time to get up and travel (for those like me in a land far far away) and will give us a couple of hours to set up all the wires, tables, equipment, etc. We should then be on the air by 10 or 11 and continue on until the particular owner wants to tear down his stuff. The park probably closes around dusk. I'll probably take my toys and go home starting around 3pm. That'll give 5 solid hours of operating time, minimum. Not too taxing.

WEATHER:

We'll see how it looks as we get closer.

EQUIPMENT:

George is bringing:
A table, chair, umbrella, Sierra with 20m and 40m bands modules, antenna tuner with Rainbow bridge, gel cells (daughter will do without her motorized car for the day ... again), G5RV dipole and some long wire for our famously-successful delta loops.

Dave is bringing ...

FOOD:

Need bagels.
Need charcoal, ice and coolers.
George is bringing coffee (as much as I can hold/contain).

MISC:

The Van-Nest Park Pavilion is reserved for Saturday Sept 20th. We are granted exclusive use of the pavilion but the park is still open to the public. We will just have to be careful not to put any antennas in anyone's way. There are several large trees so antenna supports should be no problem. We do not have exclusive use of the park. We do have exclusive use of the pavilion and immediate area. The pavilion is a covered area approximately 40 or so feet across. Has a number of picnic tables on which we can setup. Several large trees immediately adjacent to it should provide antenna supports. Therefore, we will be limited in the total number of stations we can set up. There is also a small lake and they allow non-motorized boats ... How about a QRP/Maritime mobile station?? He can bring his row boat and a hamstick.