Location: Washington Monument State Park (Middletown, Maryland)

Date: June 22-23, 2013

At the end of 2012, we lost a friend who came to many Field Days with us. Paul prepared an attachment for our FD sign with some pictures to remember him with. Bill was responsible for many innovations at our Field Days, including antenna filters and the logging program he wrote for us and upgraded year after year.

RIP, OM.

The crew: 2013 attendees left to right: (front) K3MZ, AJ1DM, N3IC, WA3OFC; (back) Logan, W3MIT, WJ1M, KN3U, AG6DF, W3CID, WA3PYU, WA3KLK, WA3IRQ, KB3UNL, N2AW; Not shown: KB5WGT and behind camera KA3VXM

Of course, upon arrival there is only the shelter with empty picnic tables. Everyone is busy unpacking, hooking up rigs, wiring, power devices, etc.

The above-mentioned "power devices" which are quite a bit more sophisticated than the variac and battery charger we previously used; the NIH crew has constructed very professional equipment.

This year we networked the N1MM logging programs on all of the laptops. But not without some initial troubleshooting involving a slew of "experts" on hand! At right, Bob and Robert put up the tarp to tame the sun and wind.

Before putting together the VHF-UHF table, Paul's mini-shack tent is first configured.

Finally, the gear is ready (waiting for antennas): the [mostly] phone, cw, and VHF/UHF station equipment.

It is a major operation to hoist the tribander mounted on Frank's "Rocket Launcher" tower -- but sufficient labor and management assignments are worked out.

A second beam is on Frank's "Ladder" tower. (Okay, this pic is a bit of a fib as it really depicts taking it down. So think of time as fluidic in nature's fourth dimension and the result is the same.)

The triband yagi beam atop the rocket launcher; the beam on Frank's "Ladder" tower.

The 80 meter dipole down in the field (not shown: the "upper" 80 meter vee and 40 meter moxon).

Paul's VHF/UHF antenna tower; Victor's Cellphone antenna.

Bob falls asleep on Sunday -- mid-conversation!!! But our top point-getter can do whatever he likes. At least this year we didn't record his snoring like in 2006 (actually that mp3 is a popular site download!)

Alas, MDC section manager Jim Cross WI3N did not make it to our site this year. Here is a power point presentation of his Field Day travels, plus a video of his various stops.

We went with two transmitters. QSO breakdown:

80 phone - 136
40 phone - 489
20 phone - 437
15 phone - 191
6 phone - 15
2 phone - 3
432 phone - 1
80 cw - 137
40 cw - 582
20 cw - 255
15 cw - 204
10 cw - 19
GOTA phone - 136
GOTA cw - 91

1. N2AW 444 cw (888 equivalent points)
2. N3IC 422 cw (844 equivalent points)
3. K3MZ 331 cw, 20 phone (682 equivalent points)
4. WA3KLK 495 phone (495 equivalent points)
5. WA3OFC 256 phone (256 equivalent points)
6. WA3PYU 247 phone (247 equivalent points)
7. AJ1DM 190 phone (190 equivalent points)
8. WJ1M 67 cw (134 equivalent points)
9. KN3U 24 cw, 24 phone (72 equivalent points)
10. WA3IRQ 54 phone (54 equivalent points)
11. W3MIT 43 phone (43 equivalent points)
12. AG6DF 24 phone (24 equivalent points)
13. Logan 23 phone (23 equivalent points)
14. KB3UNL 14 phone (14 equivalent points)
15. W3CID 10 phone (10 equivalent points)
16. KB5WGT 8 phone (8 equivalent points)

Field Day - 2013-06-22 1800Z to 2013-06-23 2100Z - 225 QSOs
K3MZ Max Rates:

2013-06-23 1016Z - 2.0 per minute  (1 minute(s)), 120 per hour by KN3U
2013-06-23 1404Z - 1.0 per minute  (10 minute(s)), 60 per hour by WJ1M
2013-06-23 1439Z - 0.6 per minute  (60 minute(s)), 33 per hour by WJ1M

K3MZ Runs (holding a frequency with CQ) >10 QSOs:

2013-06-23 1505 - 1532Z,  7153 kHz, 17 Qs, 38.1/hr AG6DF