Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)

Date: June 22-23, 2002

Shelter: #2

The crew: 2002 attendees: l-r WA3KLK, K3AN, WA3SOR, N3IC, WA3PYU, K3MZ, WA3OFC, KG4NXZ, N2AW; not shown KG4TSX, WB3HNV, N3PLB, WA3LTJ & son Joe, Yumie

First, the setup: Robert fishes an antenna into the trees (left); the 40 meter dipole is up (center); and the north quad about to be lifted into the trees (right)

The north quad (20/15 meters) is up (left); and the south quad (20/10 meters) follows (right)

Get ready: Paul's fancy solar panel begins juicing up the nicad's for our natural power QSO's (left); Steve starts the generator on its 24-hour tour of duty (right)

Let the Games Begin: At 2:00 pm, Bill starts up the phone station, and Bob begins on cw (left); Bill's new and improved WinFD program is a great help (right)

Meanwhile, up at the Monument: The Washington Monument, namesake of the park (left); two views of Paul's instant-up VHF/UHF tower and antennas (right)

Inside the VHF/UHF tent: Jason and Wes (left); Paul (right)

Operators: Frank returns from camp and gets on the air (left); Mike takes over (right)

A growling stomach makes for a poor operator: Drew barbeques (left); Paul and Wes wait to fill their plates (right)

Back at the rigs: Steve (left) and Bill (right) rack up the points

The GOTA Station: Andy and son Joseph (left), and Wes (right) give us extra points for this new Field Day transmitter

Bonus points for non-traditional mode demo: Mike poses by his ATV camera (left); the ATV monitor (right)

Yumie assists Drew (left); and some operators just can't seem to stay awake after being on the air all night long and building a fire (right)

We went with two transmitters plus the VHF/UHF and GOTA stations, scoring 8480 plus 1000 bonus points. A new high, again! QSO breakdown:

80 cw - 222
40 cw - 345
20 cw - 425
15 cw - 181
10 cw - 12
80 ssb - 273
40 ssb - 386
20 ssb - 375
15 ssb - 410
10 ssb - 47
6 phone - 75
146 phone - 45
432 phone - 8
GOTA phone - 251

Dupe Sheets

1. N2AW 500 cw (1000 equivalent points)
2. N3IC 293 cw (586 equivalent points)
3. WA3SOR 291 cw (582 equivalent points)
4. WA3KLK 450 phone
5. WA3LTJ 322 phone
6. WA3OFC 313 phone
7. K3AN 101 cw, 80 phone (282 equivalent points)
8. WA3PYU 273 phone
9. K3MZ+KG4NXZ+KG4TSX 128 VHF/UHF phone
10. KG4NXZ 100 GOTA phone
11. N3PLB 100 GOTA phone
12. K3MZ 53 phone
13. KG4TSX 33 GOTA phone
14. WB3HNV 12 GOTA phone
15. Joe Mitz 5 GOTA phone
16. Yumie 1 GOTA phone
    

We scored 12^th out of 424 (97.2 percentile) non-battery / non-commercial power entries in the 2A category. We scored 15^th out of the total 518 entries (97.1 percentile) in the 2A category (the largest category). With a new high in points, we had the highest score in Maryland once again.

Entries ahead of us in 3-land are:

We carried 3-land! (The overall 2A high score was 15,170)

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