[BCVHFA] Field Day information

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Excerpt from the ARRL Letter, Vol 25, No 06

The 2006 ARRL Field Day package
<http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/06-fd-packet.pdf> and rules (HTML 
version  <http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2006/rules-fd-2006.html>) (PDF 
version <http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/06-fd-rules.pdf>) now are 
available on the ARRL Web site.

"The only rule change in 2006 involves the GOTA ('Get On The Air') station 
bonus-point structure," says ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan Henderson, 
N1ND. "An individual operator may earn a 50-point bonus for completing 50 
QSOs at the GOTA station. They may earn an additional 50 bonus points when 
they reach 100 QSOs."

Henderson notes there's a 100-QSO cap for bonus points per individual GOTA 
operator, but additional GOTA operators may earn the bonuses for the club, 
up to a maximum of 500 GOTA bonus points.

"Additionally, Field Day operations can double their GOTA bonus points by 
having a designated GOTA Coach/Mentor supervise the station whenever it's 
on the air," Henderson notes. "The GOTA Coach/Mentor may talk the 
participants through the QSOs and serve as control operator, but GOTA 
participants must make and log all QSOs themselves."

This means that if a Field Day group has a GOTA Coach/Mentor, the 50 and 
100-point bonuses GOTA operators earn will double to 100 and 200 points 
respectively, while the maximum GOTA bonus increases to 1000 points.

ARRL Field Day 2006 will be Saturday and Sunday, June 24-25.