Field Day 2015
(Revised 11/3/2015)
Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)
Date:
June 27-28, 2015
The crew: 2015 attendees left to right: (rear) W3CID, Logan, AJ1DM, K3MZ, W4TG, W3MIT, WA3PYU; (front) KN3U, N3IC, AG6DF, WA3KLK, N2AW; Not shown: WA3LTJ, KG4URX, KG4NXZ, KM4EFH, Lucas, KB5WGT.
Videos
Thanks to Gordon and his iPad for the first two videos of Frank & Company putting the antennas up on Friday. My Android tablet provided this year's version of Big Brother's 24-hour surveillance!
Antennas
Rocket Launcher Tribander (internet link dish, too)
The Ladder beam and Dipoles
Power
The all important generator and natural power source!
The Shelter
It was a very dreary Saturday. We needed tarps on both sides of the shelter to shield us from the wind and rain. Frank & Company put most of the antennas up on Friday before the rains came.
Operators
CW ops Paul and Bob
Phone op Mike, GOTA ops John and Victor
Al
Visitors
Visitors included youth operator Lucas and his Dad
Extra
Victor's PSK31 setup; Logan and Robert relaxing
We went with two transmitters:
QSO's: 1117 cw x 2 =
2234 + 1511 phone = 3745 x 2 = 7490
+ 1310 bonus points = grand total 8,800
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Congratulations to Paul K3MZ, who breaks through as our top operator for the first time! Look at the Operators worksheet in the
Logs & Analysis spreadsheet for breakdowns by band, mode, operator, bonus point allocation, pie charts, QSO rates, and more
(operator rankings including bonus points differ slightly). The year-to-year comparison worksheet is updated.
--- Results from December 2015 QST ---
This was our fifth highest cw score ever; our eighth highest phone score ever; our eighth highest in overall QSO points. See the RARC Home Page and the year-to-year worksheet in the spreadsheet for comparisons.
We scored 20th out of 391 (95 percentile) in the 2A category. We had the highest score in the Atlantic Division (DEL, MDC, EPA, WPA, NNY, WNY, SNJ).
(The overall 2A high score was 15,108 -- ours was 8,800)
Print out a QSL card (pdf format).
for the unzip password
Here are the 2015 FD Weblog notes. You can open them in the main browser window by clicking this.
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(Photos by Logan, W4TG, N3IC. Designed to be viewable in 1024 width resolution)