Field Day 2002 was a success! Here are some photos from FD; thanks to KA1MOM and K9HI for them.

  CW   Digital   Phone  
  QSO Power QSO Power QSO Power
160 M            
80 M 120 100     34 100
40 M 246 100 15 100 109 100
20 M 76 100 45 100 4 100
15 M 155 100 4 100 58 100
10 M         49 100
6 M         16 25
2 M     2   7 50
1.25            
70cm         2 5
Other            
Satelitte            
GOTA            
Totals 597 CW 66 Digital 279 Phone

Field Day was set up as usual at Larz Anderson Park in Brookline.  This year the area we normally use had just been reseeded so we were limited in what we could do there.   Instead, we set up underneath the arbor just to the side of the usual FD site, with a tarp over the arbor and BARC's new canopy/portable garage next to it.  The Public Info table and repeater liason station was set up under the easy-up.

The public info table included articles about Ham Radio and a copy of the Brookline TAB discussing BARC's FD efforts.  The radios in the wooden rack belong to KB1EKN and are set up as a portable net control or communications station; we used them to monitor the 145.23 and 146.64 (SKYWARN) repeaters.

We operated multiple stations, operating 6A this year.  Here's N1IST on HF Phone and KB1EVZ on 6M Phone.

WX1G and KE1L spearheaded our CW efforts and racked up an amazing number of points.

PSK31 and RTTY were a great surprise this year - it is the first time we have done anything on HF Digital.  Getting us 66 contacts ensures that it will be back again next year!

Homebrewing was evident at the BARC Field Day, whether it is this antenna tuner

or KE1MB's 10 GHz demo station - a perfect example of what you can build from a well-stocked junk box.  Strange and ironic to see a tube-based Heathkit radio receiving 10 Gig SSB.

        

VHF operating can get tiring after being up all night...

Power was provided by Hingham Fire's generator and distributed courtesy of N1ZKR Power and Light.  Note the proper safety precautions including circuit breakers, GFI-protected receptacles and correct grounding (to a ground rod, not the hydrant...   It had too much paint on it to make a good connection to, but did a good job keeping the generator from walking away.)

   

And of course there were antennas.  A B&W folded dipole, the 40/80M dipole shown below, an R3 and R7 on HF, and the stack on VHF/UHF.  The magmount on the cookie sheet was for 220 MHz.

           

Just a small example of the sheer quantity of stuff brought to Field Day. 

And we got mentioned in the Brookline TAB:

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