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The 2023 Field Day Experience for a University Amateur Radio Club

The Case Amateur Radio Club, W8EDU, of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio held its annual ARRL Field Day exercise at the university farm’s Pink Pig meeting house. The Pink Pig was indeed the farm’s pig barn back in the day; it’s now a pleasant if rustic gathering place with a large lawn and some quite high trees. Porky’s sty has been transformed into hams’ radio hangout, as it were.

Planning meetings began in January and then in earnest in April; we reviewed last

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