Clearwater ARS/St. Peteburg ARC Field Day
K4JMH
6A SFL
Low Power
CW PHONE
80 -- 35
40 136 239
20 106 323
15 33 148
10 1 109
6 --- 35
2 8 (Packet) 15
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284 905
x 2 x 1
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568 + 905 = 1473 x 2 = 2946 QSO Points
Bonus Claimed:
Emergency Power 6 x 100 600
Public Location 100
Media Relations 100
Packet 100
VHF+ 100
Natural Power 100
W1AW Bulletin 100
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1200 points + 2946 = 4146 points
Our field day is used as an opportunity to let as many people try HF out and
to learn
about propogation, and to have a great time! It was the first time to use
K4JMH on the air also. CARS received K4JMH as a vanity callsign in April.
K4JMH was the call of a past officer and active member who became a silent
key last summer. Not a great CW call but our CW crew became used to it
really fast!
We never go all out on getting lots of contacts. We operate in a higher
catagory so
we can give more people a chance to operate. Only a few of those at field
day are
contesters. I rarely get on the radio during field day. I made a handful
of contacts on 10 and let the new hams at it. I spent about an hour and a
half on 20 late at night running stations.
We made quite a few more contacts than last year. All but 10m and 6m were
up over last year.
20 meters was excellent. I spend between about 2AM and 3:30AM on 20 meters
phone and had good paths to the west and midwest and even Hawaii. 15m
appeared to be strong to California most of field day. It was nice to be
able to do 75 SSB (even though we only did 35 Qs.) The 10m meter phone
station doubled as a 75m phone station.
6M and 10M finally opened about 9:30 AM on Sunday and the majority of
contacts were made on these bands between then and the end of field day (2
PM EDT.)
We had alot of people participate (probably between 75 and 100) in someway.
A great cookout was held around midnight and we managed to escape rain
(again) all weekend!! Though there were plenty of cases of sunburn. We had
several folks who have never been at field day before who had a great time.
Our primary 6M operator was a 16 year old who was licensed in March. We had
some of our club members who are in high school really get into it too!
73 and CU on NAQP,
de KR4YL
Paul
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* Paul E. Knupke, Jr. pk@ij.net *
* Largo, Florida Fidonet 1:3603/570.0 *
* Amateur Radio KR4YL ICQ UIN 605259 *
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