2017 Amateur Radio Field Day

For this year - I am the Field Day chairperson and so had the job of organizing and mobilizing the many club members of the Greer Amateur Radio Club. Just to recap last year's result - we were in the 2A class (2 transmitter club stations). Rusty Kirkpatrick WU2T was the chairperson last year. We ended up 16th nationally in 2A class and 2nd in the Roanoke Division of the ARRL. We took first place in SC. Our points total was 7670 last year and this is the score we had to beat this year.

For 2017 - what we did that is the same as last year.
We used the same K3s we used last year - thanks to Dave K4SV
We used the same tribander on the trailer mounted tower - thanks to Dave K4SV
We used the same home brewed hex beam I constructed
We had two transmitters - one dedicated to CW and one dedicated to SSB
We had a Get On The Air or GOTA station.
We had round the clock coverage

What we did differently for 2017
We had dedicated antennas for both transmitters. The SSB station had 40m and 80m dipoles I constructed in addition to the tower mounted tribander 3 element yagi. The CW station had the hex beam for 20-15-10 and the CrankIR for 40m and 80m. Originally I had planned to have Bob ND7Js 80m vertical but unfortunately this did not happen. This meant reeling the crank on the CrankIR in the middle of the night to convert it to 80m operation and then back to 40m in the morning.
We had a VHF station for 6 meters.

Here is a video put together by Dave Anderson K4SV

Results for 2017
QSOs overall 2300 plus (since it has not been submitted - subject to adjustment
1073 QSOs on SSB, 1185 QSOS on CW
Band CW Phone Dig Total %
---- -- ----- --- ----- ---
80 143 159 0 302 13
40 483 51 0 534 24
20 428 650 0 1,078 48
15 121 128 0 249 11
6 10 84 0 94 4
2 0 1 0 1 0
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Main Stations Total 1,185 1,073 0 2,258 100

GOTA CW 47 PHONE 85

Grand Total = 1232 CW and 1158 Phone

QSO Points = 2464 CQ and 1158 Phone = 3622 Points x 2 Power Multiplier =7244 Points

Total Contacts by Operator:

Operator Total
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K4SV 433 WG4MC 255 AG3R 214 W4RCW 179 WN4AFP 209 NY4G 156 W4FC 155 KE4EA 131 K1IT 101 WU2T 101 KD4S 98 W4EEY 86 ND7J 69 WB4OQL 78 KZ4M 38 K4VOI 7 W4VX 6 KN4EUM 11 KJ4TID 2 K1SBI 37 KM4VJC 24
Total = 21

Total Contacts by Antenna

CrankIR 626 28%
Hexbeam 549 24%
80m Dipole 159 7%
40m Dipole 51 2.2%
Force12 778 34.4%
6m beam 94 4.1%

BONUS POINTS 1030

Emergency Power 200 POINTS
Media Publicity 100 POINTS
Set Up in Public Place 100 POINTS
Information Booth 100 Points
Message to SM 100 POINTS
Educational Activity 100 POINTS
W1AW Field Day Message 100 POINTS
GOTA Bonus 80 POINTS
Electronic Submittal 50 POINTS
Social Media 100 POINTS

OVERALL POINTS - 8274 points

Here are some photos from the operation.