Field Day 2009

Field Day 2009

Sign

Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)

Date: June 27-28, 2009

The crew (click photo for higher resolution image): 2009 attendees (left to right): back row N3IC, K3MZ, N2AW, Joel S., Logan M., WA3SOR; middle row WA3PYU, WA3OFC; front row KA3VXM, Elaine K.; Not shown: WA3LTJ, KG4NXZ, KG4URX, KB8UUE, AA8TF, KI3C

Antennas!

40m Moxon
Hard to see - 40 meter Moxon and 80 meter inverted vee

40m Moxon
Frank's quad

K9AY
Frank's 80m K9AY low noise receive antenna

Lower 80m
Frank's 80m dipole

The "Shack" (at night)

Shelter
Our home-away-from-home for 24 hours

Operating

Bob Paul
Bob handles cw, Paul on phone

Andy Paul
At night, Andy handles phone, Steve on cw

Joel Wes
The GOTA station: Joel, Wes

Cooking, Eating, Relaxing...

Logan Adam WB3HNV
Logan cooks up a storm; Adam partakes; and WB3HNV visits

Logging

N1MM
This year we used the N1MM logging software which interfaces with the rigs

We went with two transmitters. QSO breakdown:

80 cw - 198
40 cw - 444
20 cw - 419
6 cw - 4
2 cw - 1
432 cw - 1
80 ssb - 218
40 ssb - 453
20 ssb - 615
6 phone - 42
2 phone - 14
432 phone - 4
Satellite phone - 1
GOTA phone - 198
GOTA cw - 0

QSO's: 1067 cw x 2 = 2134 + 1545 phone = 3679 x 2 = 7358
+ 1610 bonus points = grand total 8968

Logs & Analysis | Station List | ARRL Submission

Tracking results from N1MM:

QSO Point Operator Stats

N3IC 357 cw (714 equivalent points)

N2AW 315 cw (630 equivalent points)

WA3OFC 505 phone (505 equivalent points)

WA3SOR 194 cw (388 equivalent points)

^*K3MZ 79 phone, 149 cw (377 equivalent points)

WA3LTJ 375 phone (375 equivalent points)

WA3PYU 369 phone (369 equivalent points)

KI3C 18 phone, 52 cw (122 equivalent points)

KG4NXZ 67 phone (67 equivalent points)

Logan M. 60 phone (60 equivalent points)

Joel S. 42 phone (42 equivalent points)

AA8TF 28 phone (28 equivalent points)

Mark 1 phone (1 equivalent point)

KB8UUE 1 phone (1 equivalent point)

^*Counting bonus point allocations, K3MZ moves to #3 on the list above.

N2AW (a true gentleman) -- when he was leading the pack by only 27 contacts -- turned the virtual cw key over to yours truly for the last hour of the contest, thus allowing his lead to be overtaken. 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.

A few reports from N1MM:

Field Day - 2009-06-27 1800Z to 2009-06-28 2100Z - 1286 HF Phone QSOs N3IC HF Phone Max Rates: 2009-06-27 1841Z - 4.0 per minute (1 minute), 240 per hour by OFC 2009-06-28 0733Z - 2.5 per minute (10 minutes), 150 per hour by OFC 2009-06-28 0823Z - 1.6 per minute (60 minutes), 97 per hour by OFC N3IC HF Phone Runs (holding a frequency with CQ) >10 QSOs: 2009-06-27 1813 - 2117Z, 7160 kHz, 186 Qs, 60.9/hr PYU 2009-06-27 2240 - 2333Z, 14279 kHz, 55 Qs, 62.4/hr PYU 2009-06-27 2355 - 0341Z, 14232 kHz, 259 Qs, 68.7/hr LTJ 2009-06-28 0537 - 0709Z, 3890 kHz, 87 Qs, 57.1/hr OFC 2009-06-28 0724 - 0743Z, 14209 kHz, 41 Qs, 125.9/hr LTJ 2009-06-28 0745 - 0929Z, 14208 kHz, 114 Qs, 65.6/hr LTJ 2009-06-28 0940 - 1005Z, 7164 kHz, 26 Qs, 62.2/hr OFC 2009-06-28 1008 - 1212Z, 7181 kHz, 137 Qs, 66.3/hr PYU 2009-06-28 1222 - 1254Z, 3808 kHz, 44 Qs, 83.1/hr PYU 2009-06-28 1319 - 1351Z, 3800 kHz, 22 Qs, 42.4/hr OFC 2009-06-28 1353 - 1422Z, 14176 kHz, 42 Qs, 88.4/hr OFC 2009-06-28 1426 - 1453Z, 14164 kHz, 33 Qs, 72.5/hr K3MZ 2009-06-28 1529 - 1604Z, 14324 kHz, 46 Qs, 77.3/hr PYU 2009-06-28 1644 - 1737Z, 7167 kHz, 45 Qs, 50.8/hr PYU 2009-06-28 1747 - 1756Z, 7155 kHz, 12 Qs, 84.9/hr PYU Field Day - 2009-06-27 1800Z to 2009-06-28 2100Z - 1061 HF CW QSOs N3IC HF CW Max Rates: 2009-06-27 1858Z - 3.0 per minute (1 minute), 180 per hour by N3IC 2009-06-27 1912Z - 1.7 per minute (10 minutes), 102 per hour by N3IC 2009-06-28 1722Z - 1.3 per minute (60 minutes), 78 per hour by N2AW N3IC HF CW Runs (holding a frequency with CQ) >10 QSOs: 2009-06-27 1853 - 1933Z, 14052 kHz, 56 Qs, 85.3/hr KI3C 2009-06-27 1953 - 2012Z, 14009 kHz, 23 Qs, 74.0/hr KI3C 2009-06-27 2244 - 0047Z, 7023 kHz, 123 Qs, 59.9/hr N2AW 2009-06-28 0116 - 0144Z, 3547 kHz, 29 Qs, 61.3/hr K3MZ 2009-06-28 0239 - 0256Z, 3508 kHz, 11 Qs, 38.6/hr WA3SOR 2009-06-28 0525 - 0600Z, 14042 kHz, 32 Qs, 54.3/hr N3IC 2009-06-28 0609 - 0710Z, 14043 kHz, 44 Qs, 43.2/hr N3IC 2009-06-28 0720 - 0811Z, 7035 kHz, 58 Qs, 67.6/hr N3IC 2009-06-28 0935 - 0955Z, 3525 kHz, 20 Qs, 60.3/hr N3IC 2009-06-28 1105 - 1212Z, 3522 kHz, 49 Qs, 44.3/hr WA3SOR 2009-06-28 1406 - 1603Z, 7026 kHz, 128 Qs, 65.4/hr N2AW 2009-06-28 1610 - 1759Z, 14030 kHz, 133 Qs, 73.2/hr N2AW+N3IC

--- Results from December 2009 QST ---

We scored 17^th out of 441 (96.1 percentile) non-battery / non-commercial power entries in the 2A category. We scored 20^th out of the total 501 entries (96.0 percentile) in the 2A category (the largest category). We had the highest score in the 3^rd call district.

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

Duh... There are none! (sorry, Frank)

(The overall 2A high score was 15,150 -- ours was 8,968)

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2009 MDC QSO Party

August 8/9, 2009

205 QSO points x 31 state/county/country multipliers = 6355 total score Phone op = WA3KLK, CW op = N3IC

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