Field Day 2023
"Covid-19 year IV"
(Revised 12/1/2023, spreadsheet updated 3/21/2024)
Location: Washington Monument State Park (Boonsboro, Maryland)
Date:
June 24-25, 2023
Facebook:
Randallstown ARC
HamCommunity:
Randallstown/NIH ARC
I'm getting lazy curating the photographs. I've included a sampling here, but scroll to the very bottom and click on the links for the complete full-resolution online repositories -- who knows how long they will persist, though.
Setting Up
Friday; the tribander on the rocket tower.
Friday; the second tribander on the Rohn tower.
The 40-meter Moxon; Potato Launcher.
80-meter Vee rope; Solar Panels.
The generator; power controller; and 10.85 KWH used over FD.
Operating
Quizzical team, K3MRI-K3MZ, W4TG
KN3U, N2DA, NC3Y
N2AW, W3MIT, N3IC
Various
Frank promotes cw; burgers; Bob at food table.
Lee photos shelter; Bob and Tom; Josh and Logan.
Frank and Joel supervise K9 op Paco; Mike down for the count; Model S sleeping arrangement.
Tents; dark at night!
We went with three transmitters:
QSO's: 1852 cw/digital x 2 = 3704
+ 1344 phone = 5048 x 2 = 10,096
+ 1950 bonus points = grand total 12,046
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Congratulations back to Bob who regained his spot as our top operator! 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 2023 QST ---
This was our highest total score ever; of course, most of the other years were 1A or 2A and the bonus opportunities vary! See the RARC Home Page and the year-to-year worksheet in the spreadsheet for comparisons.
We scored 5th out of 331 (98.79 percentile) in the 3A category. We had the high score in MDC but second in the Atlantic Division (DEL, MDC, EPA, WPA, NNY, WNY, SNJ).
(The overall 3A high score was 13,962 -- ours was 12,046)
Print out a QSL card (pdf format).
for the unzip password
On Nov 27, 2023, at 10:31am, Frank Stein wrote: "Today we lost our beautiful Joe Meo @ 2:10pm. He suffered a massive cranial bleed and stroke on Friday evening.... Joe was my housemate back in my Bell labs days and besides joining us for a few FDs, usually after a musical gig and late night drive from NYC area, he sometimes joined our weekly sked on cw or phone. Quite a musician, EE, and great friend."
[WJ1M photo from Field Day 2013 group picture]
Here are the 2023 FD Weblog notes. You can open them in the main browser window by clicking this.
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(Photos and videos by WA3IRQ, Logan, N2DA, W4TG, N3IC. Designed to be viewable in 1024 width resolution)