Location: Washington Monument State Park (Boonsboro, Maryland)

Date: June 27-28, 1998

1998 attendees: N3IC, N2AW, WA3PYU, WA3KLK, N3ZYU, K3AN, WA3OFC, WA3SOR, N3PLB, WA3IRQ, Rachel and Sam N.

Those still here on Sunday: front l-r WA3SOR, K3AN, WA3KLK; center N3ZYU, N2AW, WA3PYU, WA3OFC; back N3IC; N3PLB behind camera. And could we still operate FD without Bill's program running on the laptop? (Curse it though we might)

Coaxial stubs overhead, Lee and Drew handle the phone xmtr while Bob takes care of cw business (left); then Paul and Bill take over those respective stations (right)

Catherine logs for ET, aka Mike (left); Lee logs for Drew while Steve handles cw (right)

At the monument: Bill, Paul, and Frank armstrong the six meter beam to zero in on the VE6 contacted

Families that operate together: Sam, Rachel, and Lee (left); Catherine and Steve (right)

Nightfall brings a continuous cool rain and wind -- so much for sweltering in the summer -- and up goes the tarp. The whole crew dons jackets (left); later N3IC takes on the cw bands in the wee hours of the morning (right)

We went with two transmitters, scoring 4574 plus an expected 700 bonus points. QSO breakdown:

80 cw - 85
40 cw - 282
20 cw - 222
15 cw - 63
10 cw - 19
80 ssb - 34
40 ssb - 135
20 ssb - 286
15 ssb - 121
10 ssb - 276
6 phone - 44
146 phone - 48
440 phone - 1

The 2A category is the largest. We had the highest score in Maryland, and ranked 72 out of the 606 entries.

Entries ahead of us in 3-land were:

K3II 2163 2 20 7106 EPA
K7SZ  854 5  8 6495 EPA
K3MD 1830 2 10 6384 WPA
W3GS 1730 2 10 6162 EPA
W3BN 1975 2 94 5434 EPA

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