Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)

Date: June 25-26, 2011

The crew: 2011 attendees (left to right): back row K3MZ, N2AW, KG4NXZ, Emily, WA3OFC; front row WA3PYU, WA3KLK, AG6DF, N3IC; Not shown: WA3LTJ, W3CID, WA8EIH, KB3UNL, KA3SQJ, KB3LMA, KB8ZJF, and behind camera KA3VXM

Frank and crew have been coming up to the park on Friday night to begin the antenna installations. In recent years it has become quite a time-consuming task. He thought that replacing one of the quads with a tribander mounted on a "Rocket Launcher" tower would simplify the antenna setup operations. Here Frank is directing the Rocket Launcher assembly with crew Paul, Bob, Wes, and Gordon.

Come on, Frank, eat some Wheaties first! Then again, we were the high school's Radio Club, not the football team...

A quizzical Wes seems unsure of Frank's assembly instructions...

With the antenna mounted, the mast is cranked up, a new mast section is inserted, and attached. (You'll have to ask Frank if the Rocket Launcher was more or less work than the second wire quad!)

One quad and another dipole need to go up... again, Frank seems to be the mastermind of the operations with Paul, Mike, and Gordon assisting.

(No usable pictures of the dipoles or the 40m Moxon)

Finally, the triband yagi beam is ready atop the rocket launcher.

A wire quad and a run of feedline (from a second 80m dipole?)

For power, we use 120vac gasoline generators to charge 12vdc batteries. Above is Paul's generator, Andy also brought one. They need to be refueled periodically.

Paul's K3 was used for the SSB station, and Robert's (née K3AN) TS-850S for the CW station. We had laptops loaded with the N1MM logging program.

The shelter was a busy place. Above left, Paul is in foreground at the GOTA station, Frank is on the left at the VHF/UHF gear; in the far row Bob is operating CW and Mike's handling the SSB transmitter.

Mike seems to be directing traffic (or maybe conducting an orchestra), but is really handling hordes of stations calling him. The screenshot shows his rate at 149 QSO's per hour.

Frank operates the K3 with its bandscanner, as well as the VHF/UHF station.

Bob running QSO's at the CW station; he managed to average 53 QSO's per hour over the entire contest period.

Robert and Bob show Steve WA8EIH how to use N1MM and the cw rig. He preferred the traditional keying methods: he came prepared with a straight key, a bug, and a paddle!

Paul and Andy operating the CW and SSB stations, respectively, at left; Andy center; at right Robert observes John KB8ZJF operating the CW station while Andy shows how to operate phone.

The get-on-the-air (GOTA) station was active. Erica came by from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency; she was interested enough to operate GOTA for a while (Paul above coaching).

Victor W3CID operates GOTA with Mike coaching.

Left: Drew coaches Paul who is coaching Carol operating GOTA; right: Paul coaching one of the youth GOTA ops.

Gordon (left) gets the prize for farthest trek to FD (from Los Gatos); Bob and Drew (2nd longest travel from Tampa); Frank

Field Day might be a "public service" activity, but the Maryland Department of Natural Resources sure charges us a lot to rent the shelter for two days -- plus the expense of the repast that Bob takes care of at the local Safeway. Here we are settling up with CFO Gordon certifying the numbers. Above we can see Wes, Bob, and Paul emptying their wallets while Robert feigns ignorance.

We went with two transmitters. QSO breakdown:

80 cw - 103
40 cw - 413
20 cw - 480
15 cw - 104
80 ssb - 161
40 ssb - 716
20 ssb - 684
15 ssb - 79
6 phone - 38
6 cw - 2
2 phone - 1
432 phone - 0
Satellite phone - 0
GOTA phone - 401
GOTA cw - 0

1. N3IC 459 cw (918 equivalent points)
2. N2AW 397 cw (794 equivalent points)
3. WA3KLK 555 phone (555 equivalent points)
4. K3MZ 45 phone, 213 cw (471 equivalent points)
5. WA3LTJ 448 phone (448 equivalent points)
6. WA3OFC 386 phone (386 equivalent points)
7. WA3PYU 245 phone (245 equivalent points)
8. AG6DF 115 phone (115 equivalent points)
9. KG4NXZ 102 phone (102 equivalent points)
10. W3CID 70 phone (70 equivalent points)
11. WA8EIH 26 cw (52 equivalent points)
12. KB3UNL 48 phone (48 equivalent points)
13. Erica Mowbray 20 phone (20 equivalent points)
14. KA3SQJ 20 phone (20 equivalent points)
15. KB3LMA 20 phone (20 equivalent points)
16. KB8ZJF 7 cw (14 equivalent points)
17. Emily Gurney 6 phone (6 equivalent points)

Field Day - 2011-06-25 1800Z to 2011-06-26 2100Z - 1641 HF Phone QSOs

          N3IC HF Phone Max Rates:

2011-06-25 2048Z - 4.0 per minute  (1 minute(s)), 240 per hour by WA3PYU
2011-06-25 2327Z - 2.3 per minute  (10 minute(s)), 138 per hour by WA3OFC
2011-06-25 2338Z - 1.9 per minute  (60 minute(s)), 116 per hour by WA3KLK

     N3IC HF Phone Runs (holding a frequency with CQ) >10 QSOs:

2011-06-25 1800 - 2125Z,   14177 kHz, 308 Qs, 90.2/hr WA3KLK+WA3PYU
2011-06-25 2200 - 0144Z,    7163 kHz, 395 Qs, 105.8/hr WA3KLK+WA3OFC+WA3LTJ+WA3OFC
2011-06-26 0219 - 0235Z,    7171 kHz, 15 Qs, 57.8/hr WA3LTJ
2011-06-26 0244 - 0255Z,    3763 kHz, 18 Qs, 99.2/hr WA3LTJ
2011-06-26 0306 - 0338Z,   14165 kHz, 39 Qs, 74.1/hr WA3LTJ
2011-06-26 0344 - 0552Z,   14176 kHz, 116 Qs, 54.0/hr WA3PYU+WA3LTJ
2011-06-26 0612 - 0819Z,    3797 kHz, 136 Qs, 64.7/hr WA3LTJ
2011-06-26 0837 - 0906Z,   14183 kHz, 22 Qs, 46.6/hr WA3LTJ
2011-06-26 0914 - 0943Z,   14213 kHz, 21 Qs, 44.4/hr WA3LTJ+WA3OFC
2011-06-26 1010 - 1146Z,    7176 kHz, 140 Qs, 87.6/hr WA3OFC+WA3KLK
2011-06-26 1149 - 1300Z,    7171 kHz, 92 Qs, 77.3/hr WA3KLK+WA3PYU
2011-06-26 1340 - 1538Z,   14156 kHz, 132 Qs, 67.5/hr WA3KLK+WA3LTJ+WA3PYU+WA3LTJ
2011-06-26 1601 - 1705Z,   21246 kHz, 79 Qs, 74.5/hr WA3KLK+K3MZ
2011-06-26 1728 - 1800Z,    7243 kHz, 49 Qs, 91.9/hr WA3OFC

Field Day - 2011-06-25 1800Z to 2011-06-26 2100Z - 1109 HF CW QSOs

          N3IC HF CW Max Rates:

2011-06-25 1843Z - 3.0 per minute  (1 minute(s)), 180 per hour by N3IC
2011-06-26 1731Z - 1.9 per minute  (10 minute(s)), 114 per hour by N2AW
2011-06-26 1742Z - 1.4 per minute  (60 minute(s)), 82 per hour by N3IC

     N3IC HF CW Runs (holding a frequency with CQ) >10 QSOs:

2011-06-25 1810 - 2011Z,    7006 kHz, 126 Qs, 62.8/hr N3IC
2011-06-25 2019 - 2154Z,    7022 kHz, 97 Qs, 61.0/hr N2AW
2011-06-25 2202 - 2231Z,   14027 kHz, 39 Qs, 79.5/hr N2AW
2011-06-25 2233 - 2306Z,   14006 kHz, 36 Qs, 66.7/hr N2AW+K3MZ
2011-06-25 2307 - 2339Z,   14067 kHz, 24 Qs, 44.9/hr K3MZ
2011-06-26 0005 - 0122Z,   14067 kHz, 65 Qs, 50.2/hr K3MZ
2011-06-26 0126 - 0214Z,   14015 kHz, 46 Qs, 58.2/hr N2AW
2011-06-26 0258 - 0343Z,    7066 kHz, 26 Qs, 35.3/hr K3MZ
2011-06-26 0346 - 0422Z,    3554 kHz, 18 Qs, 29.8/hr K3MZ
2011-06-26 0430 - 0600Z,    3526 kHz, 85 Qs, 56.4/hr N3IC
2011-06-26 0612 - 0728Z,   14028 kHz, 51 Qs, 40.6/hr N3IC
2011-06-26 0805 - 1127Z,    7043 kHz, 159 Qs, 47.3/hr N3IC+K3MZ
2011-06-26 1133 - 1153Z,   14017 kHz, 15 Qs, 46.2/hr K3MZ
2011-06-26 1157 - 1228Z,   14028 kHz, 22 Qs, 42.5/hr N2AW
2011-06-26 1604 - 1705Z,   14041 kHz, 73 Qs, 71.9/hr N3IC
2011-06-26 1708 - 1800Z,   21019 kHz, 70 Qs, 81.3/hr N2AW

Field Day - 2011-06-25 1800Z to 2011-06-26 2100Z - 403 GOTA QSOs

          GOTA (K3MZ call) Max Rates:

2011-06-25 1818Z - 3.0 per minute  (1 minute(s)), 180 per hour by KG4NXZ
2011-06-25 1826Z - 1.9 per minute  (10 minute(s)), 114 per hour by KG4NXZ
2011-06-26 1727Z - 1.1 per minute  (60 minute(s)), 68 per hour by KG4NXZ

     GOTA (K3MZ call) Runs (holding a frequency with CQ) >10 QSOs:

2011-06-25 1817 - 1828Z,   21259 kHz, 20 Qs, 107.6/hr KG4NXZ
2011-06-25 1957 - 2019Z,   21271 kHz, 19 Qs, 53.0/hr AG6DF
2011-06-25 2248 - 2343Z,    3813 kHz, 59 Qs, 64.5/hr AG6DF
2011-06-26 0147 - 0206Z,    3835 kHz, 25 Qs, 76.3/hr AG6DF
2011-06-26 0515 - 0550Z,   14331 kHz, 33 Qs, 55.9/hr KB3UNL
2011-06-26 1604 - 1618Z,    7298 kHz, 13 Qs, 56.7/hr KG4NXZ
2011-06-26 1631 - 1644Z,    7259 kHz, 23 Qs, 112.3/hr KG4NXZ
2011-06-26 1704 - 1728Z,    7190 kHz, 36 Qs, 91.0/hr KG4NXZ