Who are these unmasked men? We are all fully vaccinated, so it was pretty much back to usual. But it turned out that four of us left with covid! We don't know if they arrived at FD with it or contracted it there.
The crew: 2026 attendees left to right: K3MRI, K3MZ, W4TG, N2AW, WA3IRQ, Logan, NC3Y, KB3KSF, WA3MJZ, W3MIT (top); KN3U, KK6IC, WA3PYU, N3IC (bottom); not shown: WA3LTJ, KC3YJD, AA3IL, KK7CFJ, AC3N, Chet, Brad

I'm getting lazy curating the photographs. I will include a sampling here, but scroll to the very bottom and click on the links for the complete full-resolution online repositories -- who knows how long they will persist, though. Also, nobody's lenses caught a few of our ops -- sorry!

The two tribanders and 6-meter antenna at the shelter

The Far 80 and 40 Meter dipoles; the feedpoint of the Near 80 Meter inverted Vee

The 40-meter Moxon; the distant 6-meter beam

Power for equipment and our bellies

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Official Visit

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Frank with Boonsboro Assistant Mayor Anthony Nally

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Operating

Top op once again N2AW; K3MZ and K3MRI

WA3IRQ observes WA3MJZ operate 6-meter FT8; WA3PYU hovers behind NC3Y

N3IC on cw with WA3PYU and KK6IC on GOTA in background; KN3U with K3MZ watching

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GOTA (Get on the Air Station)

W3MIT coaches KK7CFJ; more GOTA activity

WA3PYU and W3MIT log for KK6IC

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Nightime

LEDs light up the night

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Scenes

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We continued with three transmitters:

QSO's: 2,117 cw/digital x 2 = 4,234
+ 1,759 phone = 5,993 x 2 = 11,986
+ 4,415 bonus points = grand total 16,401

Logs & Analysis XLS  PDF  |  Station List  |  ARRL Submission  |  W1AW CW

Congratulations to Bob who regains his top operator spot! 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 (operator rankings including bonus points differ slightly). The year-to-year comparison worksheet is updated.

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Our score was up in every category (except for phone -- because we've moved more ops to cw)! See the RARC Home Page and the year-to-year worksheet in the spreadsheet for comparisons.

Print out a QSL card (pdf format).
for the unzip password

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Here is an automated community comments page for us. This makes it easier than emailing everybody in the list (who might not be interested). Scroll down to the bottom of the page to add new comments. But this will only work if we check it fairly frequently to catch everyone's posts. You can open the Weblog in the main browser window by clicking this.

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RARC Home Page

(Photos and videos by WA3IRQ, Logan, N3IC/W4TG/WA3LTJ. Designed to be viewable in 1024 width resolution)