Henry VK2ZHE writes (as excerpted from the March issue of Oxtales):
Don’t forget to mark your calendars for Saturday and Sunday the 8th and 9th of June for the ORARC 44th Annual Field Day over the 2019 Queens Birthday Weekend.
The venue for the 2019 Field Day is the Wauchope Showground hall in High Street, Wauchope. This hall is an excellent venue and will support all the usual Field Day activities. It is a long time since a Field Day was held in the Wauchope Showground so both locals and visitors will be on an even footing in the fox hunts.
ORARC was unable to secure the usual Field Day venue, the Tacking Point Surf Life Saving Club hall this year but it is hoped that the Field Day can return to this venue in 2020.
The Wauchope Showground permits camping and is pet friendly. For two people an RV or caravan is $20 per night with power and a tent is $10 per night with power. The use of toilets and hot showers is included. You can even get a stable for your horse for $10 per night! Contact the on-site caretaker 0475 111 074 for bookings. See here for further details.
The Field Day dinner as usual will be at 6pm at the Port Macquarie Golf Club on Saturday the 8th of June. The dinner will be held in the recently renovated Aspire Restaurant which is now segregated from the main lounge area. The club offers an extensive dinner menu to cater for all tastes at club prices.
There will be all the usual displays and activities at the Field Day. Entry is still a very modest $5 which covers admission on both days. The barbeque will work overtime with bacon and egg sandwiches for breakfast both days and sausages and steak for lunch both days. Tea and coffee and biscuits will be free all day for those who have registered. Soft drinks and bottled water will be available for purchase.
Radio Supply of Bellingen will have a large range of accessories and other items at their stand at the Field Day.
ALARA will be attending the Field Day again this year. Call in to the ALARA stand and meet Dot Bishop VK2DB.
Amateur Radio NSW will have a stand. ARNSW have been very active in promoting and supporting Amateur Radio. The recent 40 metre dipole antenna building and testing day at both Dural and Port Macquarie was an ARNSW initiative.
Fox hunting is always popular. New 80 metre foxes are being built for the 80 metre mobile hunts. There will be mobile and pedestrian fox hunts on both 2 metres and 80 metres. If you don’t already have a sniffer, now would be a good time to build or buy one for each band.
There is no charge or commission for disposals. While Sunday is the main trading day there will always be some items on the tables on Saturday.
The programme for the Field Day will be included in the May issue of Oxtales.
Click here to view the associated event page. The field day programme will be added to the event page as it becomes available. See you on the June long weekend!