BARC / W1BOS Field Day 2005

Total bonuses claimed, 950 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 § SM-Msg § NTS § Official Visit § PR § Solar § Bulletin § eSubmit

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.

<The driveway was marked with Field Day this way signs, saying "Radio Station" with ARRL and BARC logos.

The city view from the hilltop is digitally enhanced,
as it was totally washed out in the haze. >
Yes, Boston has grown a new tower, visually between The Pru and Old Woody from this angle.

This year we were not competing with any weddings, we've got the site completely reserved now. >

<The antenna crew led by Bill W1OHM did a great job getting three dipoles (plain, B&W TFD, and G5RV) up, using the few trees available, and (with all hands doing the Iwo Jima) getting the R7 up in an open lawn marked, for pedestrian safety.

< The all-important food station was again run by Rick N1HID with burger flipping help from Walter KB1IBG, and Pancake and Coffee flipping by Bill N1VUX

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

2)Information Booth (100 pts)

Bill KA1MOM, local ARRL PIO, this year used a closed tent to protect the piles of handouts from the wind, but used the this-way signs, Ham Radio for Dummies book, and a large ARRL flag to indicate the PIO tent.

3-5)Emergency power 100% (300pts for 3A)

In the past, we'd 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). Like last year, our only generator was the much smaller 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: We again used a 12v bus for the HF radios, with two deep-cycle (marine) batteries on an Astron supply, which Paul put together for FD2004 at the last minute for FD2004 (last year). This provided the equivalent of a large UPS for the 12V radios. The logging computers (mostly batteryless old laptops running DOS and WR9R software) were on the UPS.

^The fat black cables are the 12v bus, and red-with-yellow stripe is the tap with terminal block, splices into bus at red-taped splice.

Main operating tent with CW, 2xPhone and digital HF stations.

Demo#1..3 APRS (0 pts)

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

Satellite (0 pts)

Our two "demo" were eligible for QSO points, PSK31 and Satellite, but we don't (yet) have a log of a Satellite QSO.

Our satellite station provided by Rick N1HID was using a pair of Arrow antennas on tripod and laptop, attempting both packsats and voice sats.

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

Other extras claimed

Message Origination to SM (000 pts)

Message was drafted, but was not sent.

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

6,7) Visits by an elected public official and a Served Agency Official-- (200pts)

Our NE Div Vice Director Mike Raisbeck, K1TWF, was invited, arrived, and is an elected member of his town government.

Massachusetts Salvation Army HQ's SATERN Radio Officer Frank N1DHW has been served by the Club ARES team for their large deployment drill, was invited, and visited the site.

If the rules change didn't make such a point about "elected", I'd reject this ... but since the rules don't allow counting an Appointed town manager or an Emergency Management Director who isn't yet Served but might like to be -- or who is Served by RACES without a ARES MOU -- I'll take whatever fits.

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

News releases and invitations issued -- our PIO, Bill KA1MOM (same as the PIO table) did a magnificent job customizing the releases for the different channels.

• '"Emcomm Demo" went to the newsrooms at WBZ-4, WCVB, WHWDH, WFXT, and the Boston Globe
• "Media Invite" went directly to Jordan Rich at WBZ-1030 radio
• "FD05NewsRelease3" went to the newsrooms at the Globe and the Herald.
• "BelmontTAB" went to the Belmont TAB editor and reporter who had done previous stories on the Winn Brook HAMsters.
• "Globe Announce" was an attempt to get into the Science & Health section of the Tuesday Boston Globe. They mention one event per day, and we were upstaged by a giant python.
• "Brookline Events" went to the events section of the Brookline TAB.
• "NEWSTIP" went directly to the editor of the Brookline TAB. We arranged over the phone to have a photographer and reporter show up. I think they bagged it due to the weather.
• "Winn Brook Flyer" went to the parents of the present and previous Winn Brook HAMsters. They in turn copied it and spread it to the entire school.

Natural Power -- ( 0 pts)

Weather was favorable this year, and team was inexplicably not exhausted, but all available radios either drew too much current for the solar panel or only had 12v chargers, not 12v operating adapters.

9) ARRL Bulletin (100 pts)

We copied the bulletin this year ... Eric, K1NUN, club president & FD Co-chair, audio-taped the CW bulletin, but the tape broke part way through transcription, so he filled in the rest on the phone bulletin - that's ham rsesourcefulness. [tif, pdf]

GOTA / Youth Operators (0 pts)

We had a Youth guest operator attempt a QSO with a control operator, but the bands did not cooperate.  (the Very YL in the orange hat, Alyssa - N1IST's daughter),  not the beared guy in the other orange hat)

9.5) Esubmission (50 pts)

The e-Submission of this station's contest log will include this webpage's link as documentation of Bonuses.

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QSO Summary Sheet

20M Phone

  AC3J AG6AU K0ARY/VP4 K0EA K0YW K5EPH K6OX K6PV K7TR K7UN K9BAR K9IQP
  K9IZV K9ZO KA9YUI KC7O KD0OM KG4IPX KN5H KP2AA N0AY N0NAF N4AC N4N
  N4PN N5AT N5AW N6IPD N6MBY N6PA N9RJV N9VA N9YI NC5R NO5FD W0EF W0GG 
  W0NT W0UA W1MX W4DW W4FCG W4FYI W4LBT W4WC W5HUM W5MAG W5PBR W5PWY W5QGG
  W5SH W6H W6RA W6T W6TJ W6TRW W6UQ W6YX W8BAP W8DYY W8TCM W9BCY W9CA W9DUP
  W9EBV W9LDX W9LO W9RCA W9UUU WA0KRL WA1ENO WA2DFI WC8VOA WL7X WO9Z WW6F

40M Phone
  AA4NJ K2AA K3EMD K8BB N2OB NC4CA VE3JJ W1NVT W3SW W3UU W4DW W4EXU W4KGC
  W4M W4XD W8EOC W8FY W8TNO W8VY W8YEK

20M PSK31
  AA9US AB0GA AJ1E CU2JT K0JJR K0SI K0WC K1TVV K1YJ K4EG K4KJQ K4RY K4TN
  K4YNZ K8DAA K8UO K9BAR K9IZV K9WJU KB9AU KC8SIP KC8VTO KC9DNN KF4HOU
  KF4NTQ KI7YP KU4JZ KY4MT N0GF N1HY N4EK N4GAS N4WO N9BUB NF0A NM8O
  NU0R NX4W VE3RSE W0MR W0MXW W1TKZ W4DRC W4DW W4EZ W4KP W4ULH W5NOR
  W6MV W6SW W8CDZ W8FY W8GEX W8SZ W8YDK W8ZPF W9DK W9FCC W9INL W9RB
  W9VMW WA3COM WA9GWM WB8ZZR WM4B WV8T WW4M WW9AE WX4NET

40M PSK31
  W3YA W4M W4XD

80M PSK31
  K4US KC2KAX W8M

15M CW
  K1KKM K4LKL KN4Y/M KY4CW N4AC N4PN N5AW NJ4M NO4Q PJ2A W4ATD W4FCG 
  W6VIO WA4YGG

20M CW
  K9EAM NS1RA N5RD W8TCM W8TK W9YYG 

40M CW
  AA3B AC8A AI2U K1AVR K1SE K2AA K2BAR K2NV/VE3 K2ZD K3DN K3FI K3ONW K3PZN
  K3WA K3WW K3YTL K4AMC K4BT K4LRG K4MN K4NRW K4NVA K4TN K4TS K4TS K4US K4W
  K7RDG K8ES K8MP K9YA KA1VBU KA3GEA KB1MW KE2T KM4M KP2AA KP4ES N1ME N2NGW
  N2OB N2OB N2TY N3HIA N3IO N3ZP N4GL N4WV N5EOC N8BC N8KD N8NS NA4GC NA4K
  NC4EC NN3Q NU8Z VA3SKY VE2CBS VE2CRL VE3DC VE3EU VE3LON VE3QDR VE3RAM VE3RAT
  VE3RIM VE3SPC W1EBI W1FM W1MX W1OP W1SMH W2DC W2GHQ W2MAR W2MMD W2NRC W2RDX
  W2YC W2YC W3AGM W3AO W3CB W3KDR W3UU W3WS W3ZGD W4BUS W4CA W4CQ W4DXA W4EEE
  W4IY W4TE W4TE W4UG W4VA W4XD W8AL W8CCA W8DXA W8EQ W8GK W8HP W8NJH W8SP
  W8TK W8VPV W9CA W9FK W9OM WA1LPM WA3NAN WA4FOM WA4JUK WA4MM WB8RTJ WC3A

80M CW
  K4EG K4HTA K4MW K8BB KW8N N2OB W1SRG W1YT W2MMD W3VPR W4UG W8AV W9EBV

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