As mentioned I promised to followup on the Field Day ops and the IARU tag team with George VE2NGH.First Field Day, a slow start some foul weather and a near miss when a pole snapped helped to make the event; ummm eventful. The actual operations for the tri-club event began after 4 with 20M and 6M operations. I had the distinct honor of being first op on 6 and within the first hours racking up the points and QSOs. Close to 150 in just over an hour thanks in large part to an opening on 6 that lasted well into the night. When I got on 20 I was able to drive a nice pile up. But, the real story was 40. In the early hours Vlad VA2AN racked up an amazing 200 plus contacts on the CW portion of the band. In fact the CW crew did an amazing job excluding the 6M SSB count they did better by a long shot than the SSB side 504 vs 413 contacts. 6M added in for 207 contacts gave a sum of 620 contacts. As of this point minus the tally that ARRL will finalize we should do very well with the following, save for any errors we did not catch.
HF CW = 504 QSO’s = 2016 points.
HF SSB = 413 QSO’s = 826 points.
6m SSB = 207 QSO’s = 414 points.
Total QSOs 1124 = 3256
Bonus points = 850 points.
TOTAL = 4106 POINTS
There was an attempt made to work via satellite but, to no avail due to being in proximity to a Videotron, our local cable company, tower.
Of course the event is also about publicizing the hobby and emergency preparedness in communications. We had a number of people stop by which added to the bonus points. As for the emergency prep using a generator and also battery power helped us create the above 850 bonus points. And, last but not least food and friends who share a love of communications. These elements made for one of the more interesting Field Days I have had the pleasure of being part of.
Tag teaming in a contest is interesting to the say the least, I plan on doing more of these in the fall with George and hopefully the VE2MAB crew as we begin our 30th year operating. More on the MAB station in the next posting. For now lets talk IARU. VE2NGH George invited me to come and guest op during this contest and with the moral support of our good friend Sheldon VA2SH we had what can be considerred one heck of good time. We began our contest run late Saturday afternoon, working the 20M band. As we progressed we eventually got on to the low bands 40 was the band to work and most contacts were on this band. Besides operating our host George was very gracious cooking Sheldon and I super and breakfast. We noted that on 80 there were not a lot of signals and early Sunday morning 20 and 15 did not produce results that we expected. However given the late start and with some complaints from ops that the signal was breaking up at times I think I can say we did pretty darngood. Here is how we ended for this test.
Start Date : 2011-07-09
CallSign Used : VE2NGH
Operator(s) : VE2NGH, VA2UTC
Operator Category : MULTI-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
Score : 164,840
Total Time On from 14:34 to end of the test (874 mins)
The breakdown looks like this. To get this score the points are calculated by HQ stations plus Zones multiplied by QSO points.
| Band | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | Totals |
| QSOs | 4 | 276 | 155 | 46 | 481 |
| POINTS | 4 | 880 | 565 | 136 | 1585 |
| HQ station | 0 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 45 |
| Zones | 4 | 24 | 25 | 6 | 59 |
| 164840 |
As I mentioned earlier in the fall George and I plan to work some other contests. I will update as we go. In the meantime look for me before the end of July as I plan a couple of trips to the VE2MAB station before starting my new job. I hope to work some good DX in the coming days. Plus also look for some other interesting articles here on the blog. I plan on featuring hams doing their thing more often as we head into the fall season. In the meantime some links for you to look at featuring the Field Day crew.
73 de VA2UTC Cliff
FD pics from M.A.R.C
Louis VA2LPQ has a nice array of photographs for viewing
W.I.A.R.C has a couple of shots to view
Morrie of Nunavik Graphics took a lot of pictures of the event.
And finally a video of the event where else, Youtube.
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