BARC / W1BOS Field Day 2004

Claiming 2430 points!

Total QSO points claimed, 1530 pts.

Total bonuses claimed, 900 pts

A PICTURE is worth a 1000 words ...
or at least 100 points each documenting extras for FD entry

Public Location § Info Booth § Emergency Power § Demo:APRS § Demo:Microwave § SM-Msg § NTS § Official Visit § PR § Solar

1)Public Location (100 pts)

Lars Andersen Park in Brookline is a public park on a hill, a former mansion's grounds deeded to the town. The mansion's site itself is now a parking lot surrounded by the patios and lawns. Although the park normally closes at sundown, we annually get permission to camp overnight for Field Day. The walls and arcades of the former gardens are quite pretty, as is the view of the city.

We had one self-supporting tarp as close to the drive as possible for public information "tents" and our Operating Positions nearby, with food and camping further back. The driveway was marked with Field Day this way signs.
This year we shared the area with two weddings, and were displaced from our usual tree lined are to a more open area at the north end of the summit, more horizon but fewer arboreal antenna supports.

The antenna crew led by Bill W1OHM did a great job getting two (B&W TFD and G5RV) dipoles up using the few trees available, and some brand new RG8X for lighter weight in the hanging feed (thanks to Paul N1ZKR for last minute build of cables!) and getting the R7 up in an open lawn marked for pedestrian safety. >

Lawn, Food tent (red & white) and Operating tent (silver&blue) behind Information kiosk (blue).

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Closer view of Ops carport with 1 Skywarn/Talkin/ARES liaison 2m FM & VHF FD position and 2 HF CW/Phone positions. Master CW op Dave WX1G is glowing in a reflective Marathon jacket, with Sam KB1KEK logging overnight. Joe KB1IXK is operating phone in both pictures. Sign in foreground and on chair says "OPERATORS WANTED / No experience required".

< Section Manager Phil K9HI on his tour with Ishmael WA1VRB

In rear, at VHF end of operating tent - left, low power floodlight, and right, 440 vertical, 6m halo, stacked pair of 2m halos, both on masts lashed to tent poles.

< The all-important food station; this year run by Rick N1HID with burger flipping help from Eric K1NUN and Walter KB1IBG, and Pancake and Coffee flipping by Bill N1VUX

For pictures of more architectural interest on the park, see FD2k pictures or the club FD2001 pix page, which also has more operating and antenna pictures.

2)Information Booth (100 pts)

Bill KA1MOM, local ARRL PIO, (left in orange hat, talking with two visitors) used one of the "easy-up" tarps with an information table with lots of hand-outs, samples of books, and DIY wire antenna demos (knock-down wire 2m DF quad, helical satellite downlink) to make an attractive information booth. >

Also in the picture, seated, Rick N1HID tracking satellites, >
and on the right are weekly club net control Joe W1JJF
and SATERN liaison Frank N1DHW.

3-6)Emergency power 100% (400pts for 4A)

In the past, we've kept our generators in the corner of the parking lot or behind a retaining wall (sited on the far-side from the exposure to the nearest neighbors). Our only generator was much smaller this year, a Honda quiet-run 2kW, so we just sat it under a tree. We could only tell it needed refueling because the logging computers' UPS beeped. (Except for the night refueling, when all the lights died too.) Our thanks to Hingham FD for the loan of the fine generator.

We again used Paul N1ZKR's excellent A/C distribution panel and drops with GFI protection and breakers.

Other power arrangements: This year, with the smaller generator, we used a 12v bus for the HF radios, with two deep-cycle (marine) batteries on an Astron supply. Paul did a great job with the 12v distribution bus. The logging computers (mostly batteryless old laptops running DOS and WR9R software) and the VHF radios when on either a separate Astron and gell-cell or the UPS. The fat red and black cables behind the power supply on the chair are the 12v bus. >

Did anyone get a better picture of the 12v bus?

Demo#1..3 APRS (0 pts)

Our scaled down committee did not have time to arrange demos that weren't eligible for QSO credit.

7)Satellite (100 pts)

Our one demo was eligible for QSO points.

The north lawn is more favorable to satellite operation than our usual area of the park, but there weren't as many packsats available as prior years. Our satellite station provided by Rick N1HID was scaled back to a simple demonstration using an Arrow antenna on tripod (to the right of tarp) and laptop.

Rick copied the JAS-2 FO-29 polar LEO satellite's BBS, posted his message and copied one other station's callsign:
KD4APP FO-29 June 27 2004 14:05 UTC Grid: EM74

see FD2Ks pictures or the club FD2001 pix page for pix of more elaborate Sat stations.

Other extras claimed

8) Message Origination to SM (100 pts)

NR 1 R W1BOS 15 Brookline MA June 26
Phil Temples K9HI SM/EMA

BARC Operating Field Day At
LARZ ANDERSON PARK X Total
Operators 14 ARES members 8

Bill Ricker N1VUX BARC Field Day Station Manager
SENT TO _____ 8PM EM2MN

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NR 2 R W1BOS 15 Brookline MA June 26
Mike Neilsen SEC EMA W1MPN

BARC Operating Field Day At
LARZ ANDERSON PARK X Total
Operators 14 ARES members 8

Bill Ricker N1VUX BARC Field Day Station Manager

According to the 04fdpack.pdf, the SM Message explicitly does not count towards the NTS bonus. Near as I can tell, the only things that count in two places are (1) Solar/Natural power contacts, which are still QSOs, (2) The first 100pt Satellite contact, which is a 1pt/2pt QSO; and if the whole FD is Solar/Natural/QRP, 5xMultiplier + 100pts@AlphaTx for Emergency Power.

Other NTS Traffic handled. -- 0 @ 10 = 00pts

Visit by public official -- (000pts)

I don't think the patrol officers count, although some of them were actually invited; we also had club members with SA Disaster Services and SATERN and a Police Dispatch employee visit, but they're not ARES Served Agency officials either.

9) PR -- Articles submitted before & after (100 pts)

News Release issued to the Brookline TAB.

News releases and invitations issued to other media as well ... and follow-up after FD to TAB also.

Natural Power -- ( 000 pts)

Weather wasn't favorable and team was exhausted

ARRL Bulletin??? (0 pts)

We tried to copy the bulletin, but there was Field Day generated QRM on the Bulletin frequency. Granted the ARRL Schedule does not give them a right to the frequency, but really, failure to yield to a net is rude, and to deprive others of a chance for points is very poor sportsmanship. I hope someone copied their callsigns.

QSO Statistics

Logs -- Dup Sheet

Classes with most QSOs

Class	Number worked
2A	151
3A	79
1A	46
1D	42
4A	40
5A	30
1E	24
1B	23
6A	13
2F	12
9A	11
7A	9
1C	5
2E	5
3E	4
3F	4
8A	4
2D	4
5F	3
6F	3
3D	3
21A	3
599	2
8F	2
10A	2
4D	2
DX	1
5E	1

QSOs by Section

EMA	40
IL	31
VA	27
OH	27
MDC	20
NC	18
MI	18
GA	17
EPA	16
MO	16
TN	13
ON	13
WI	13
IN	12
STX	12
AL	11
WPA	11
CO	11
NH	10
NNJ	9
WNY	9
NTX	8
WTX	7
AR	7
SC	7
WMA	6
DX	6
WV	6
ENY	6
KS	6
AZ	6
WCF	6

Operating Classes worked ... 29 different operating classes worked, including 599/5NN for several DX stations! Most popular was 2A as usual (the minimum to get the bonuses and free stations). Maximum count per class:
Club in field 21A (3), one or two hams in field 1B (23), Car 1C (5), Home Station 4D (2), Home on Emergency power 5E (1), Served Agency EOC 8F (2).

75 Sections worked: We worked more QSO's in the following sections: AB 1 AL 11 AR 7 AZ 6 CO 11 CT 3 DE 4 DX 6 EMA 40 ENY 6 EPA 16 ETX 1 EWA 1 GA 17 IA 1 ID 1 IL 31 IN 12 KS 6 KY 4 LA 5 LAX 5 MAR 1 MDC 20 ME 4 MI 18 MN 5 MO 16 MS 1 NC 18 ND 1 NE 2 NEB 2 NFL 4 NH 10 NLI 3 NM 3 NNJ 9 NT 1.

We missed a "clean sweep" of Sections by only 12. The Sections we did not contact were, by call area: 2, NNY; 4, PR; 6, EB SJV SV; 7, MT; 9, AK; Can, NL QC MB SK BC

Rarest/furthest US Sections: Wyoming, Idaho; Multiple sections of California & West Central Florida.

DX: 6 DX Stations in 6 Countries: OK1CZ 4X0X SP5KEH G3NYY RA3AF (1A ) 6W1RW
plus US Virgin Islands, plus Canada: One each Alberta, Maritimes, Northern Territories; and 13 Ontario.

DX On 6m: AL TN ME NH CT. On 2m, NH ME RI WMA. On 70cm, NH.

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QSO Summary Sheet

---      Summary for the W1BOS Field Day Operation      ---

Mailing Information:
ARS: W1BOS
Boston Amateur Radio Club
PO Box 15585
Boston, MA
          02215


Operating Class: 4_A

Check if set-up prior to 1800 UTC __     Number of participants _20__

 Summary for CW mode of operation 
 BAND        QSO-Pts   X     MULT  =  TOTAL

   80          4               2        8
   40        127               2      254
   20        106               2      212
___________________________________________
             237   X 2 pts X   2   =  948 


 Summary for DIGITAL mode of operation 
 BAND        QSO-Pts   X     MULT  =  TOTAL

___________________________________________
               0   X 2 pts X   2   =  0 


 Summary for PHONE mode of operation 
 BAND        QSO-Pts   X     MULT  =  TOTAL

   80         91               2      182
   40         46               2       92
   20         34               2       68
   15         71               2      142
   10          1               2        2
    6         22               2       44
    2         23               2       46
    .7         3               2        6
___________________________________________
             291   X 1 pts X   2      582  

___________________________________________
Total Score (Less Bonuses):          1530


BONUS POINTS (Check all that apply and make appropriate attachments):

Emergency Power     _4_     Media Publicity     _1_   Public Location  _1_
Information Booth   _1_     Message Origination _1_   Messages Handled ___
Natural Power       ___     W1AW Message        ___                No.____
Satellite QSO       _1_     Non-Traditional Mode___   Other:_____________

This certifies that the station whose call appears above was operated
in accordance with the current Field Day rules and that, to the best
of my knowledge, the points and scores set forth in the above summary are
correct and true. This station was operated in accordance with FCC rules and
regulations. I agree to be bound by any decision of the ARRL Awards Committee.

Signature____________________________ Call_n1vux______Date_________ 

Photos Copyright 2004 by Bill N1VUX
This page produced by Bill N1VUX, Copyright 2004 by BARC.

See also WA1VRB photos

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