Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)

Date: June 26-27, 2004

The crew: 2004 attendees: l-r back N2AW, WA3SOR, K3MZ, K3AN; front N3IC, WA3OFC, WA3PYU, KG4NXZ, WA3KLK; not shown WA3LTJ, KG4OAP, N3HJB

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First things first: The antennas must go up! Jim and Wes work on the VHF/UHF antennas; Paul joins in; Frank ponders how one of his quads goes up; and Robert works on another skyhook

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What's most important: The antennas are up. VHF/UHF antennas (top left); one of the quads (top right); the wire antennas -- dipoles, 40 meter Moxon, another quad (above left); and Bill arranges the coaxial stubs (above right)

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HF Operators:

N3IC, KG4OAP, WA3OFC

WA3SOR (with XYL N3PLB overseeing), WA3PYU, and... our star performer yet again... N2AW!

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The VHF/UHF station: Wes and Jim (left); the equipment (center); and Paul (right)

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Non-traditional Mode demonstration: Mike with his ATV camera and the live broadcast

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Non-traditional Mode demonstration: Steve hooks up the ringo antenna, and his APRS station. Now we know where we are!

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Natural Power: Paul's trusty solar panel provides the "juice" once again for our natural power bonus QSO's

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We couldn't live without it: Frank and Bill discuss Windows platform difficulties; but Bill's 2004 version of WinFD faithfully logs the QSO's (Bill secretly enjoys hearing our curses)

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Stomaches are growling: Wanting to speed things up, after Drew prepares the grill, Wes and Bill -- against advice in The Mythical Man-Month -- think things will go faster with two cooks!

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Paul talks a visiting Appalachian Trail hiker into trying out the equipment; Mike helps him operate the GOTA station

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Some people at least have an excuse for being tired (left); but some actions defy explanation (right)

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We went with two transmitters plus the VHF/UHF and GOTA stations, scoring 6836 plus 1000 bonus points. Alas, a new high again was too elusive! But it was our second best score, beat only in 2002. QSO breakdown:

80 cw - 268
40 cw - 402
20 cw - 206
15 cw - 17
80 ssb - 345
40 ssb - 490
20 ssb - 352
15 ssb - 208
6 cw - 3
2 cw - 2
432 cw - 2
6 phone - 80
146 phone - 29
432 phone - 6
GOTA cw - 6
GOTA phone - 96

1. N2AW 366 cw (732 equivalent points)
2. N3IC 214 cw (428 equivalent points)
3. WA3KLK 386 phone
4. WA3SOR 191 cw (382 equivalent points)
5. WA3OFC 357 phone
6. WA3PYU 309 phone
7. WA3LTJ 260 phone
8. K3AN 106 cw, 24 phone (236 equivalent points)
9. K3MZ 23 cw, 137 phone (183 equivalent points)
10. KG4NXZ 25 phone, 80 GOTA phone (105 equivalent points)
11. KG4OAP 12 phone, 6 GOTA cw, 12 GOTA phone (36 equivalent points)
12. N3HJB 4 GOTA phone

We scored 27^th out of 455 (94.3 percentile) non-battery / non-commercial power entries in the 2A category. We scored 29^th out of the total 495 entries (94.3 percentile) in the 2A category (the largest category). We had the highest score in Maryland once again.

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

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for the unzip password

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