[FCARC] Field Day 2015 - a quick recap

[Craig Szczublewski]

First, if you have pictures from Field Day 2015, send them my way, I want to put 
up a Flickr photo album.  On with the recap:

What a wild ride this years Field Day proved to be.  The massive rain storm that 
was parked on top of us for 12+ hours, responsible for so much flooding and 
damage around the area, did not show us much mercy.  After most of the EZ-Up 
shelters were swamped before the start of the contest, we were granted access to 
the cabin building at the back of the Woodlot, which allowed four of us to run 
stations quite comfortably and remain in a Alpha classification. Combined with 
Lindsay's covered trailer and John's camper, we were able run a 6A despite the 
weather.  Other items that worked against us were intermittent generator power 
issues (mostly due to water, and lots of it), a disturbed solar forecast, and 
heavy winds limiting us to wire antennas (we never had an opportunity to get the 
tri-band safely assembled and raised).  Now that they bad is out of the way, we 
had a very good run:

Total CW:           92
Total Digital:     165
Total Phone:       218
Total QSOs:        475
Total QSO Points:  732

After Power Multipliers and other Bonus Points, we will be claiming an overall 
score of 2,414 points.  Other Field Day stats follow:

         ----CW----  --Digital-  ---Phone--
   Band  QSOs   PWR  QSOs   PWR  QSOs   PWR

    160     0     0     0     0     0     0
     80     1   100    15   100    15   100
     40     0     0    90   100    81   100
     20    84   100    38   100    80   100
     15     6   100    22   100    29   100
     10     1   100     0     0    13   100
      6     0     0     0     0     0     0
      2     0     0     0     0     0     0
    220     0     0     0     0     0     0
    440     0     0     0     0     0     0
   1200     0     0     0     0     0     0
    sat     0     0     0     0     0     0

Totals    92   100   165   100   218   100

QSO breakdown by Operator

     30 KD8WVO
     32 K8LI
      4 K8JPD
     69 KB8ELG
     86 KE8RU
    165 KD8KBU
     19 KG8XG
     70 AB8RC

We worked 42 states, missing Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode 
Island, Utah, and Wyoming.  We also worked 4 Canadian territories and 1 DX entity.





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