Field Day 2008
Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)
Date:
June 28-29, 2008
The crew (click photo for higher resolution image):
2008 attendees (left to right): WA3OFC, WA3SOR, KG4URX, Elaine K., WA3PYU, KA3VXM, Logan M., K3MZ, WA3IRQ, Lien W., K3AN,
Mike Z., WA3KLK, N2AW, KA4YVY, N3IC; Not shown: WA3LTJ, KG4NXZ, KM4MAC
Antennas!
Hard to see - 40 meter Moxon
and
feedline going to 80 meter inverted vee
Frank's wire quads
Bill and Frank slingshot ropes up the trees; the far 80 meter dipole
Bill and Robert test the antennas before the contest begins
Steve uses the ringo for packet
Paul and Co. prepare the solar cells and put up the VHF/UHF antennas
The "Shack"
Our home-away-from-home for 24 hours
Operating
Paul handles cw; Drew on phone,
Lien supervising; Lee on phone
Kathy supervises Mike at the phone station
Super op Bob on cw
Young Ops
Steve coaches Mike Z.;
KM4MAC shows how it's done
More GOTA
Wes operates while Bob rests
after dominating GOTA cw;
Itay also knows what to do
Steve coaches Elaine
Paul handles multiple bands and rigs
Frank chats up Assistant Section Manager Al Brown KZ3AB and Section Manager Jim Cross WI3N;
They're afraid to ask what underground cabling we used the front end loader for!
Eating
Mike Z. likes to cook
Nightime
Bill prepared with flashlight;
Andy setting up; the tents came in handy
Estrogen
XYL's Elaine, Lien, and Kathy
hated every minute of Field Day!
Relaxing
Bill, Paul, Frank, Bob G.; Bob C.
Budding Photographer Logan; Frank
Takedown
Taking antennas down from the trees (until 2009!)
View Drew's video: High Res | Low Res
We went with two transmitters plus the VHF/UHF and GOTA stations, scoring 7232 plus 1790 bonus points. QSO breakdown:
80 cw - 240
40 cw - 250
20 cw - 355
15 cw - 164
80 ssb - 145
40 ssb - 305
20 ssb - 474
15 ssb - 119
6 cw - 2
2 cw - 1
432 cw - 1
6 phone - 54
146 phone - 15
432 phone - 1
GOTA cw - 109
GOTA phone - 259
Total: 1122 cw x 2 = 2244 + 1372 phone = 3616 x 2 = 7232
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Operator Stats
N2AW returned, and
resumed his winning ways!
Look at the last page in the
Log file for breakdown
by band/mode per operator
--- Results from December 2008 QST ---
We scored 12th out of 440 (97.3 percentile) non-battery / non-commercial power entries in the 2A category. We scored 15th out of the total 487 entries (96.9 percentile) in the 2A category (the largest category). We had the highest score in the 3rd call district.
Entries ahead of us in the Atlantic Division (DEL, MDC, EPA, WPA, NNY, WNY, SNJ):
Duh... There are none!
(The overall 2A high
score was 14,754 -- ours was 9,022)
Print out a QSL card (pdf format).
for the unzip password
Here are the 2008 FD Weblog notes. You can open them in the main browser window by clicking this.
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(Photos by Logan, K3MZ, WA3SOR, WA3IRQ, WA3KLK, N3IC. Designed to be viewable in 640 x 480 resolution)