[CTSARA] Preliminary Field Day Results

[Gustav Hedlund]

Jon,
 
I think for every inch of rain we got we should get credit for at least 750 contacts. With the upside down YAGI we also should 
get a lot of credit for trying to reach worms and China-very short path.
 
In spite of all I had a great time. You people did a great job.
 
73 Gus W1BV
 
> From: jon.perelstein at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:08:58 -0400
> To: ctsara at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [CTSARA] Preliminary Field Day Results
> 
> We scored over 1-1/2 inches of rain (probably about 1.75 inches of rain)
> and approximately 80,000 gallons of water.  We also handled 25 mile/hour
> winds.  Our best showing in decades!!
> 
> In other news, propagation was terrible because of various solar storms
> that you probably read about.  Seriously bad - everyone across the country
> suffered.  Some unfortunate club in California managed to get into their
> local newspaper with a headline "Solar storm forces Ham Radio drill to shut
> down early"  (http://www.signalscv.com/m/section/36/article/139123/).
> 
> We did not shut down early.  Our crazy members kept on pushing right to the
> end, despite rain, wind, solar storms, blown finals, particularly hungry
> bugs, and the Nature Center's guinea hens who simply would not take "No"
> for an answer when they asked to operate.  Good engineering by Terry
> Papazidis, Andy Siegel, Steve Urso and a few others kept our tents on the
> ground and free of water.  We did not have to shut down at all.
> 
> Preliminary results are
> 
> 7,702 points total on 2,065 QSOs (including GOTA)
> 
> For comparison,
> 2014 was 11,334 points on 3,750 QSOs (including GOTA)
> 2013 was 8,910 points on 2,550 QSOs (including GOTA)
> 
> We're still checking the logs to make sure we have everything correct, but
> it's likely that 7,702 will be our final number.  It's also likely that's
> going to be one of the better 3A scores in the country and certainly in New
> England.
> 
> In addition to all that, we managed to pick up a new member - a local ham
> who never knew we existed until he came across our Field Day info on a web
> site and came by to visit.
> 
> Thanks and congratulations to everyone who participated - I'll have a full
> list in a later email.
> 
> 73
> Jon, WB2RYV
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