Field Day 2006

Field Day 2006

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Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)

Date: June 24-25, 2006

The Field Day group

The crew: 2006 attendees (left to right): K3AN, K3MZ, WA3PYU, KA3VXM, KG4URX, WA3OFC, Joel, N3IC, N2AW, WA3KLK, WA3SOR; Not shown: WA3IRQ, KI4LGI, WA3LTJ, Michael, Elaine

First, antennas must go up!

Dangerous Robert Quad preparing to rise

Quad Up VHF/UHF antennas 6 meter antenna

Then, antennas must be checked and repaired!
Checking an antenna Frank with coax

Important Visitors The MDC Section Manager (WI3N) visits and makes a contact; the Park Ranger avidly follows the operation

Demonstration Mode Mike runs his ATV demonstration; and also made contact with WI3N operating ATV from his car!

Time to rack up some contest points!

Steve Bill
Mike watches Steve; Bill

Kathy and Mike Drew
Kathy supervises Mike; Drew upping the rate

Andy
Andy and Bill -- operating in the Dark

Paul Itay Bob

Paul says everything's okay (but we won't mention the recurrance of last year's kiss); Frank coaches Itay (with Joel coaching Bob in the background); and star operator Bob. And now we know N2AW's secret to maximizinq QSO points: a good rest. Click here to relive his snoring in between Frank's vocal operating (with sympathy to Shana).

Relaxing
Lee

Lee skips out on wedding festivities to drop by and visit; Joel and Frank, when not in the heat of GOTA coaching; and Kathy joins us this year

High QSO rate
Drew gets the QSO rate up pretty high; Bob and Itay tend the barbeque grill

We went with two transmitters plus the VHF/UHF and GOTA stations, scoring 8016 plus 1810 bonus points. A new high! But it's not quite fair to compare, because of the changes in bonuses. QSO breakdown:

80 cw - 227
40 cw - 352
20 cw - 437
15 cw - 64
80 ssb - 265
40 ssb - 427
20 ssb - 415
15 ssb - 268
6 cw - 7
2 cw - 4
432 cw - 3
6 phone - 109
146 phone - 17
432 phone - 4
GOTA cw - 0
GOTA phone - 315

Total: 1094 cw x 2 = 2188 + 1820 phone = 4008 x 2 = 8016

Station List | Log | ARRL Submission

Bill's Activity and History Analyses

Tracking results from Bill's WinFD program:

Operator Stats

N2AW 435 cw (870 equivalent points)
N3IC 347 cw (694 equivalent points)
K3AN 175 cw, 175 phone (525 equivalent points)
WA3KLK 388 phone
WA3LTJ 379 phone
WA3PYU 225 phone
WA3SOR 104 cw (208 equivalent points)
K3MZ 33 cw, 114 phone (180 equivalent points)
WA3OFC 174 phone
KG4URX 14 phone, 100 GOTA phone (114 equivalent points)
Joel 5 phone, 104 GOTA phone (109 equivalent points)
KI4LGI 26 phone, 55 GOTA phone (81 equivalent points)
Michael 4 phone, 53 GOTA phone (57 equivalent points)
KA3VXM 3 GOTA phone
WI3N 1 phone

Congratulations to our top contest op N2AW, who wins five years in a row!
Look at the last page in the Log file for breakdown by band/mode per operator

--- Results from December 2006 QST ---
2006 QST score

We scored 10^th out of 456 (97.8 percentile) non-battery / non-commercial power entries in the 2A category. We scored 11^th out of the total 486 entries (97.7 percentile) in the 2A category (the largest category). We had the highest score in the 3^rd call district.

Entries ahead of us in the Atlantic Division (DEL, MDC, EPA, WPA, NNY, WNY, SNJ):

Duh... There are none!

(The overall 2A high score was 13,858 -- ours was 9,826)

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(Photos by WA3KLK, WA3IRQ, and N3IC. Designed to be viewable in 640 x 480 resolution)