[W9RCA-News] 2017 Field Day results

[Jim Keeth]

Thanks to everyone in our Club who participated!

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> Hi Everyone,
> The results for this year's Field Day are in and they are actually quite impressive.
> We don't know where we'll come in overall, that will have to wait until the results come out, but we hope to finish in the 10 nationally (that is, in class 3A).
> Okay, our final tally was 11,040 points. As I understand, that's the highest we've ever done before. That's quite an accomplishment seeing we're at the bottom of the sunspot cycle.
> A few things really came into play as to how well we did.
> 1) The weather was perfect, and I mean perfect. Lows were in the 60s and highs in the 70s. (low humidity, too) There wasn't a rain drop in sight and not a single static crash in the headphones.
> 2) ?Numerically, conditions should have been mediocre at best, but they were actually quite good.
> 3) Jim Rinehart was able to save our 6M station effort and get us up and running again the last few hours of Field Day (6M was wide open). It's the little things such as this that make for chance to be in the top 10 nationally for our class. Yes, FD is not all about points, but if we have the capability and the manpower to strive for that level of effort, let's go for it!
> 4) ?Brian Smith (W9IND) put in a huge effort to organize our bonus points. And get this, because of his diligence, we took home 1500 bonus points out of a possible 1600 (not including the GOTA bonus). In effect, the bonus points were like doing an extra 750 phone contacts (the equivalent of 25 operators doing 50 contacts an hour on SSB). That's a lot of points and you can see were that is going to lead.
> 5) For the first time ever that we know off, all HF stations had their schedules full for the whole 24 hours (that's 72 hours of non-stop operation). So a big thanks to everyone who operated and made the full schedule possible. ?(And a special thanks to our overnight operators, Mike Kasrich (AJ9C), E.J. Caylor (KK9EJ) and Brian Smith (W9IND). These are tough shifts to operate and their efforts made a difference. Thanks guys).
> 6) And then there was just the sure doggedness of a group of hams working there tails off to put together a highly capable emergency station and keep it running for 24 hours.
> Also, as I understand, Brian (W9IND), our historical expert, is working on a report looking into a lot of the old records and statistic and has put together some petty cool info about past Indiana FD efforts. I don't have all the particulars, but hear this year was an extraordinary effort!?
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> Again, a big thanks to everyone for helping out. This was a massive effort, manpower wise and planning wise, and it came off well.
> Next year we'll do it all over again, and do it even better!
> 73
> Bill, WY9T
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