ARRL Field Day - 2021
Call: WA4AUG
Operator(s): KK4PEQ AA5JF KK4KTM KO4BUR KN4MXH KE2HG
Station: WA4AUG
Class: 2F LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 99 11
40: 149 134 9
20: 164 55
15: 152 19
10: 42 275
6: 5
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 606 499 9 Total Score = 4,224
Club: Augusta University ARC
Comments:
First ever Field Day for the Augusta University ARC, from the EOC of Augusta
University's Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPaR) center. Thanks to
all the CEPaR's staff for not only hosting the event and providing the radios,
but for helping get all the antennas up, and then letting us stay the night too.
FD was already a success on Saturday, with the stations working smoothly, and
lots of local visitors dropping by. An hour after sunrise on Sunday, we were
counting our points on Sunday morning, when Darby KK4PEQ announced he had just
worked a station on 6M phone--just playing around on 50MHz. He stayed on 6M for
five QSOs, but we quickly QSY'd to 10 and 15, finding those bands were open to
just about everywhere, and we doubled our score in just three hours. What a
rush.
Special shoutout to Miller KK4KTM for his unwaivering support of Augusta
University's fledgling amateur radio club, for getting the operating space
ready, for his amazing sense of positivity and possibility, and for supplying an
endless quantity of iced tea. He knows much (all?) about emergency
communications, but this was his first serious 'contest' experience. Late in the
contest, he mentioned one lesson learned about radiosport: leave the
decaffinaited tea bags at home. Words to live by.
We love pretty much everything about this latest generation of ham radio
technology, including the amazing ICOM radios at our disposal and of course
automated dupe checking, WinKeyers, and modern logging software. But. Our
triband antenna, responsible for a most of our points, was a Wilson System 33
antenna from ~1980, picked up for $100 and raised to just 20 feet. Designed
(right?) w/o any computer modelling, and, in following the instructions, fed
with no balun. Many of you would say we overpaid. But just completely perfect
for FD sporadic Es on 10M. And totally fine on 20M too.
Can't wait till next year. Score includes anticipated bonuses.
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