[W2CRA] Fwd: [N3FJPSoftware] Field Day Clarifications, FAQs & Club Score Processor Fun!

Tony Ploski aploski at comcast.net
Wed Jun 10 16:34:02 EDT 2020 

CRA members

Additional information on Field Day logging

Tony W2HWW



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Subject: 	[N3FJPSoftware] Field Day Clarifications, FAQs & Club Score 
Processor Fun!
Date: 	Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:52:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: 	Scott Davis via groups.io <SNKDavis=aol.com at groups.io>
Reply-To: 	SNKDavis at aol.com
To: 	n3fjpsoftware at groups.io <n3fjpsoftware at groups.io>, 
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Hi All,

With just 17 days to go until we kick off Field Day 2020, one of the 
highlights of the Amateur Radio season is about to start!

I'm receiving lots of requests for clarification about how club members 
will operate from their individual homes and still have their QSO's 
count towards the club total, under the Field Day aggregate score 2020 
waiver rule.Here is the FAQ I'm receiving most and my answer:

http://www.n3fjp.com/faq.html#q121

How does our club submit our Field Day entry under the new 2020 rules?

If you are submitting in the Delta category, you must upgrade to Field 
Day Log 6.3: http://www.n3fjp.com/fieldday.html

If your club is physically together, with all stations within a 1,000 
foot circle, operating under a single call sign (except for GOTA), you 
will submit your results normally as detailed here: 
http://www.n3fjp.com/faq.html#q68

If your club is not operating within a 1,000 foot circle, you will each 
operate under your own call. You will NOT combine your logs. Aside from 
agreeing on a club name, there is no need to coordinate your submission 
with the rest of your club. Just submit your entry as detailed here: 
http://www.n3fjp.com/faq.html#q68

When you go to http://field-day.arrl.org/fdentry.php to submit your log, 
you will see a Club or Group Name field. Enter your club's name exactly 
as your club has specified. ARRL will combine everyone's score within 
your club and report your grand total when they publish the 2020 Field 
Day results.

You can still see your club's combined total grow in real time on Field 
Day weekend, enjoy each other's company and have a great time virtually 
while operating individually for Field Day 2020. You'll find more on how 
we have a blast doing that with our club in many of the great contests 
each year, in the Field Day and Clubs section! 
http://www.n3fjp.com/news/news2020-05-29.html


ARRL Field Day FAQs.

In response to the questions ARRL is receiving, they just released their 
own Field Day FAQs, which covers lots of additional detail as well.  You 
will find the ARRL Field Day FAQ page here:

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/arrl-contest-program-issues-field-day-2020-faq


Please Find Your Field Day Password Now!

If you haven't already entered your registration information, please 
don't wait until the last minute to realize that you can't find your 
password (or register the Field Day software). If you can't find your 
password, Kimberly is happy to help, but the week leading up to Field 
Day gets crazy, so if you can't find yours, please e-mail us now.  As 
always, upgrades are free to registered users!


Club Score Processor Setup

Running the free Club Score processor is entirely optional, but adds so 
much more fun to every contest, including Field Day, that I am thrilled 
to see many new clubs and groups giving it a try for the first time.  
Watching your club's score grow in real time, as well as seeing how each 
of you are doing individually, along with the banter in our virtual 
clubhouse on the Discord app, adds a quantum leap of fun to contesting!

Here is an example of our Northeast Maryland Amateur Radio Contest 
Society's totals web page at the end of 2015 November Sweepstakes SSB:

t.png

The club score processor is easy to set up, as long as one individual in 
your club has a basic understanding of putting a web page on the 
Internet. If one person in your club has ever put a web page up using an 
FTP program or basic web publishing software, you will be fine.  Just 
don't wait until the last minute.  This is definitely something you want 
to set up well in advance (now).

You'll find the six easy steps for the one person in your group 
coordinating the Club Score Processor here: 
http://www.n3fjp.com/clubscore.html

Enjoy Field Day! I'm looking forward to working you!!!


And in response to the questions we always receive when we neglect to 
include the following in our e-mail announcements...


Package Upgrade Information...

If you have registered one or more individual programs and would like to 
upgrade to N3FJP's Software Package for full use of all our Amateur 
Radio software, we would be glad to apply the amount that you have 
registered so far as a credit towards that purchase. Please send us an 
e-mail directly and we'll let you know your balance.

N3FJP's Software Package includes more than one hundred programs for 
contesting, net management and general logging Amateur Radio 
applications. In addition to full use of all these programs, registered 
package customers are also entitled to receive free passwords for any 
new software that we add to the package and free upgrades to existing 
programs. There are no annual / maintenance costs of any kind.  Simply 
register once and you are set with N3FJP Software for life!  You'll find 
all the details on the Register Now page here:

http://www.n3fjp.com/purchasepackage.html


Donations are Gratefully Accepted!

And in response to the often asked question for which Kimberly and I are 
very grateful...

"/I know your upgrades are free, but I also realize how much time and 
effort coding these enhancements and new programs take and that your 
pricing policy doesn't fully reflect that. Can I send you something to 
show my appreciation for your continued efforts?/"

Yes, thanks so much, your continued support in any amount is very 
welcome and deeply appreciated! You can use this page:

http://www.n3fjp.com/donations.html

or send your contribution by mail, payable to Affirmatech Inc., to:

G. Scott Davis
118 Glenwood Road
Bel Air, MD 21014-5533

Thank you so much for your continued support!


Thanks!

As always, thanks for your kind words, support, linking to our web site 
and spreading the word about our software. Kimberly and I really 
appreciate it!


73, Scott
N3FJP
http://www.n3fjp.com <http://www.n3fjp.com/>
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software since 1997./
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73, Scott
N3FJP
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/Serving the Amateur Radio community with contesting and general logging 
software since 1997./

1 Peter 3 vs 15: /Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who 
asks you to give _the reason for <http://www.n3fjp.com/Faith.htm>the 
hope that you have <http://www.n3fjp.com/Faith.htm>_. But do this with 
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