[CTSARA] Field Day Point Total

O'Connor, Tony tony.o'connor at credit-suisse.com
Thu Jun 30 16:53:24 EDT 2011 

Not too bad at all that we went over, it was spectacular that we had so
many QSO's.  Too bad we couldn't count any of the extras, but that is a
good problem to have had.  

I'm glad you had a blast.  That's the whole point of the GOTA station in
particular and indeed of Field Day generally.  You were a trooper
working through the night and thank you for a fantastic job! 

73,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Christina Kovacs [mailto:ckovacs at optonline.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 4:22 PM
To: O'Connor, Tony
Cc: ctsara at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [CTSARA] Field Day Point Total

To bad we went over the 500 allowable QSO's for the GOTA tent but I sure

had a blast (no matter how cold I got in the middle of the night!)


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, O'Connor, Tony wrote:

> We didn't get penalized for going over but we were allowed to count 
> only
> the first 500 QSO's.
> That is, there's a 500-QSO limit for the GOTA station.  We made 611
> QSO's, which is a testament to how much fun everybody was having at 
> the
> GOTA station.  There was a lot of excitement and enthusiasm in the 
> tent
> and we just kept cranking out the QSO's.
> If we had had the flexibility to select the 500 we were going to count
> out of the 611 we made, our score would have been higher.  The rules 
> are
> a little ambiguous on this point, so we asked the ARRL for a
> clarification and made a very strong argument why it would be within 
> the
> rules and in the best interests of amateur radio and Field Day to 
> allow
> us to do so.  But the ARRL said, no, we can count only the first 500
> QSO's.  So that's what we did.
>
> But, again, spectacular job making all the QSO's we did.  It's the 
> first
> time (that anyone involved was aware of) that the SARA GOTA station
> maxed out on QSO's -- not just maxed out, but blew the doors off the
> barn, so to speak.
> Good job Team GOTA!
>
> 73,
> Tony
> KB1SUN
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ctsara-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:ctsara-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Rosca
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:11 PM
> To: ctsara at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [CTSARA] Field Day Point Total
>
> I'm confused--was the 611 GOTA QSO too high? Were we not supposed to
> go over 500?
>
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>> Subject: [CTSARA] Field Day Point Total
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>> Sorry for the delay in getting out our Field Day point totals, but an
> issue
>> arose about scoring.
>>
>> First the good news:  Our final score is 9,816.  That's an 1800 point
>> increase over last year.  The breakdown is given below.
>>
>> Now the bad news:  It should have been 9,936, but the League is
> penalizing
>> us because -- in our desire to introduce ham radio to families (and
>> especially teenagers)  -- we wound up with 611 GOTA QSOs.  We
> certainly
>> won't make the mistake of trying to use the GOTA tent to introduce 
>> ham
>> radio
>> to families (and especially teenagers) next year.
>>
>> QSOs and QSO Points
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> We operated all radios at under 150 watts, so we get a 2x multiplier
> on our
>> QSOs.  In addition, there is a 2x multiplier over and above the power
>> multiplier for CW and digital QSOs.  Thus, each phone QSO is worth 2
> points
>> and each CW or digital QSO is worth 4 points
>>
>> 2504 3A QSOs, consisting of 1846 phone and 658 CW
>> 500 GOTA QSOs, consisting of 419 phone and 81 digital (the rules cap
> us at
>> 500 points for GOTA QSOs for scoring purposes, that's in the rules 
>> and
> is
>> not an issue)
>>
>> Total phone:   2265 x 2 = 4530
>> Total CW:        658 x 4 = 2632
>> Total DIG:          81 x 4 =  324
>>                      -----------------------
>> Total                              7486
>>                       -----------------------
>>
>> GOTA Bonuses
>> -----------------------
>> GOTA bonus points come from qualified candidates operating at least 
>> 20
> QSOs
>> in the GOTA tent.  Because of the dispute with the League, we were
> able to
>> claim only 440 bonus points (instead of 500).
>>
>> Since we had full-time GOTA Coaching, we can double that to 880
>>
>> Other bonuses:
>> -----------------------
>> 3 stations on emergency power =                 300
>> Media publicity =                                        100
>> Set-up in public place =                               100
>> Information booth =                                     100
>> NTS message to ARRL SM/SEC =               100
>> W1AW Field Day Message =                       100
>> Formal NTS Messages handled (23 mgs) =   100
>> Natural power QSO =                                  100
>> Site Visit by elected official =                       100
>> Site visit by served agency official =              100
>> Educational Activity =                                  100
>> Youth element achieved =                            100
>> Submitted using the on-line ap =                    50
>>
> ---------------------------------
>>                                                                1450
>>
>> Grand Total
>>
>> QSOs:                      7486
>> GOTA Bonus:             880
>> Other Bonuses:         1450
>>                             ------------
>>                                 9816
>>                             ------------
>>
>> 73s
>> Jon
>> WB2RYV
>>
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