[PVRCNC] K4FQU Field Day

[Mike Barts]

The Carolina Contest Consortium (aka Motley Collection of PVRC'ers) 
stepped up their game from 2012 going from 1A to 3A by more than 
doubling the number of souls foolish enough to join them. This year's 
cast included W4KAZ, N4YDU, W0UCE,  N3ND,  K2AV,K4IVF, and N4GU. We 
practiced the KISS principle for station setup with simple radio, 
laptop and wire antenna(s) for each station (ok, we did have a 3 el 
yagi for 6m). No towers, no networks, no long elaborate setup or take 
down.  Unlike last year with it's mild, pleasant weather, Murphy 
decided to visit us in the form of rain. Saturday evening saw a fair 
number of showers passing through the area. But we had everything 
under cover so no big deal. We woke up Sunday morning to patches of 
blue sky and most things had dried out overnight. If we could just 
make it to about 3 or 4 o'clock and be packed up on our way home 
...... The rain started promptly at 1:50 PM.  Not hard or heavy, but 
steady enough to make sure take down was soggy. But, propagation 
seemed good and we all had a good time and made lots of Qs. We lacked 
photographers and videographers to record our event, so you'll just 
have to imagine us soaking wet taking down. But be assured we had a 
good time despite the rain. We'll think about doing it again in about 
twelve months.



K4FQU   3A NC

>Score Summary:
>                         CW  Digital  Phone  Total
>  Total QSOs   1907      0    1810
>  Total Points   3814      0    1810   5624   Claimed Score = 11,248
>
>
>Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:
>                         CW                Phone
>               QSOs Pwr(W)    QSOs Pwr(W)
>       160m
>        80m  153    100                201    100
>        40m  890    100                558    100
>        20m  350    100                479    100
>        15m  428    100                442    100
>        10m    72    100                  50    100
>         6m     14    100                  80    100
>         2m
>       1.25
>      Other
>  Satellite
>       GOTA
>      TOTAL 1907                      1810