U.R.A.C. est.1927

Field Day 2011. I was really happy this year. I can't thank everyone enough who helped to make it a great occasion.

• Propagation was not great this year. In and Out at best.
• The TRW radio station, operating about 3 miles from us at Friendship Park, reported to one of our club members today "your 15M station was 'killin it'." I don't know if that's good or bad, but Ray said it was good... ;)
• We made 383 QSO's without a graveyard shift. 112 on 10Meters and 271 on 15Meters!
• We contacted 46 states, missing only Alaska, New Jersey, Delaware, and Washington.
• We contacted 5 of 9 Canadian Providences.
• We contacted Puerto Rico, but missed the Virgin Islands, although I did hear them. Damn.
• There was little to no propagation to the north. I was surprised to see we contacted OR and BC at all.
• I had one "remote" contact from a 1D LAX who was remote in from Tokyo
• We worked with an antenna which, at best, was a 3:1 SWR (both bands) when we put it up, so we weren't at our best suffering some loss there and from a coupled cable, but we still did ok.
• We were supposed to have a rotator too, but it was forgotten by a party. We did fine without it though.