[Elecraft] 2005 MID-MO ARC (N0SS/0) FIELD DAY RESULTS

[Tom Hammond]

Hi Folks:

Well, since the posting of FD results has begun, I guess I'll
post ours as well.

This year, the MID-MO ARC (Jefferson City MO) decided to do
"something a bit different" from our past 20 (or so) years of
operating class 2A 100w w/beams on towers, etc.

It was decided that we'd still operate class 2A, but this year
it'd be class 2AB (battery), all K2, all 5W or less, and all
wire multi-band dipoles at 30 feet. One station on CW, one on
phone, and a GOTA (Get On The Air) station for our seldom-active
and newly minted ops. The GOTA station was a 'freebie' and not
added to the class '2' count.

Here's a reprint of the report just received from our 2005 Field
Day Chairman, K9ZTV... who, I think, probably for the first time
in his LIFE, operated QRP for more than one QSO!!!

Our showing wasn't anything terribly extraordinary, but it was
fun, and very educational, esp. for those operators who had
previously always just staked out a frequency and called "CQ"
until they were blue in the face... this year they had to learn
to SEARCH 'N POUNCE if they were gonna make Q's... and they did!

And I quote...

   If I'm reading the results correctly (and I think I am) . . .


   BY SCORE, AMONG CATEGORY 2AB (5-WATT) STATIONS:.

   3rd   ... in the USA (out of 28 stations, placing us in the top 10.7%)
   1st   ... in the Midwest Division (out of 3 stations)
   1st   ... in the Missouri Section (out of 2 stations)


   BY SCORE, AMONG ALL 5-WATT STATIONS (regardless of  category):

   21st  ... in the USA (out of 257 stations, placing us in the top 8.2%)
   1st   ... in the Midwest Division (out of 9 stations)
   1st   ... in the Missouri Section (out of 3 stations)


   BY SCORE, AMONG ALL STATIONS (regardless of category, regardless of power):

   181st ... in the USA (out of 2,206 stations, placing us in the top 8.2%)
   4th   ... in the Midwest Division (out of 118 stations,
             placing us in the top 3.4%)
   3rd   ... in the Missouri Section (out of 50 stations,
   placing us in the top 6.0%)


   BY NUMBER OF QSO'S

   5th   ... in Category 2AB (out of 28 stations, placing us in
             the top 17.9%)
   27th  ... in the USA among all 5-watt stations regardless of
             category (out of 257 stations, placing us in the top
             10.5%)
   725th ... in the USA among all stations, regardless of
             category, regardless of power (out of 2,206 stations,
             placing us in the top 32.9%)


   CONCLUSIONS . . .

   Not too shabby, gentlemen, not too shabby at all!!

   Our contest score is terrific and, as contests go, the final
   score is what wins the prize. Clearly, anyway you dissect it,
   we distinguished ourselves on points.

   To me, however, the NUMBER OF Q's is the most important
   indicator of the "mettle of the men." In analyzing this year's
   Field Day strictly from that point-of-view (number of
   contacts), to be in the top third of ALL Field Day entrants and
   run only 5 watts is nothing short of fantastic. To be in the
   top ten-percent of ALL 5-watt stations is equally amazing. And
   to be in the top eighteen percent in our chosen 2AB category is
   wonderful.

   I congratulate all of you who fought the 100 degree heat, 90
   percent humidity, stifling tents, noisy and unshaded location,
   and Murphy's annual appearance. He managed to break one of the
   CW antenna leads which went unnoticed until it was 30-feet in
   the air. He somehow turned down the RF output on the K2 in the
   CW net to 100mw for the first hour of operation, but we made
   contacts anyhow. And he seduced N0MV into moving to New Mexico,
   thus transferring the club's "stuff" from Dave's basement to
   mine. But all things being equal, it was a great Field Day.
   We proved to ourselves we can rough it, operate it, and win it.
   What more can you say!

   73,

   Kent  K9ZTV
   2005 Field Day Chairman

The K2's (of NN0B, W0ESE, and N0SS) did it once again.

73,

Tom Hammond    N0SS