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Field Day 2011 10M/15M Operation Summary |
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Written by W6ADC
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Monday, 27 June 2011 15:58 |
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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.
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Operator
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10
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Meters
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15
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Meters
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Total
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%
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DC
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36
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32.14%
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144
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53.14%
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180
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47.00%
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CL
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62
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55.36%
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108
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39.85%
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170
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44.39%
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JR
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0
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0.00%
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14
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5.17%
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14
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3.66%
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IP
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10
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8.93%
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0
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0.00%
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10
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2.61%
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JP
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4
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3.57%
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0
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0.00%
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4
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1.04%
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SM
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0
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0.00%
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4
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1.48%
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4
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1.04%
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JL
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0
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0.00%
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1
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0.37%
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1
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0.26%
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Total
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112
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271
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383
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