| NAME | CALL | LOCATION |
| Steve Johnson | KC8RYY | Millie Hill |
| Tom Martin | W8JWN | Pine Mountain |
| Burt Armbrust | WB8EBS | Hill above Wells Fargo along US-2 |
| Skip Caswell | KE9L | Merriman/Granite Bluff area |
| Barry Perron | KC9NFT | Buckeye Lookout (if still in area) |
| Jim Rye | W8IFI | Crystal Falls (top of the hill) |
| Bob Meyers | WA8FXQ | Faithhorn area (if not in Copper Country) |
| Terry Moriarty | K9TRY | Niagara |
| Dave Thomas | KG9Y | Niagara |
| Bill Grabowski | KD8VTT | Mansfield Township/Johnson's Potato Farm area |
| Debbie Grabowski | KD8VTS | Mansfield Township/Johnson's Potato Farm area |
| Sam Holmes | N8ATS | Cemetery Road in Pembine |
| Steve Hebert | KD8WAK | East D Street |
| Joe Ferris | KC9TQR | Vicinity of County N, U, & C in Florence County |
| Year | Total Points | Bonus Points | CW | RTTY | SSB |
| 2011 | 2,044 | 710 | 125 | 52 | 336 |
| 2010 | 2,424 | 1,030 | 136 | 82 | 281 |
| 100% Emergency power | 300 |
| Media Publicity | 100 |
| Set-up in Public Place | 100 |
| Information Booth | 100 |
| W1AW Field Day Message | ----- |
| Formal NTS messages handled (13) | 100 |
| Natural Power QSO's Completed | 100 |
| Site Visited by invited officials | 100 |
| Site Visited by served agency | ----- |
| GOTA maximum QSO's achieved (3x20) | 60 |
| QSO completed by operator under 18 (2x20) | 40 |
| QSO completed by operator under 18 (2x20) | 50 |
| CW | Digital | Phone | ||
| Band | QSOs | QSOs | QSOs | Totals |
| 160 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 80 | 40 | 0 | 73 | 113 |
| 40 | 120 | 0 | 191 | 311 |
| 20 | 69 | 32 | 145 | 246 |
| 15 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 24 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GOTA | 0 | 0 | 101* | 101 |
| TOTALS | 238 | 32 | 525 | 795 |
| Band | QSOs |
| 80 | 26 |
| 40 | 46 |
| 20 | 29 |
| 2006 | 2007 | |
| GOTA Points (Including bonus points) | 167 | 201 |
| CW Points | 466 | 476 |
| Phone Points (Not including GOTA) | 273 | 424 |
| Digital Points | 74 | 64 |
| Total score including bonus points | 2960 | 3180 |
Discontinue long distance service for the repeater auto patches (a savings of approximately $100 per year.)The club Christmas Party is normally held in place of the February Meeting. Members will be surveyed in the December newsletter to ascertain their interest. The club will not subsidize the meal this year.
Change the local auto patch telephone service from SBC's unlimited calling to "Call Plan 50" (a savings of approximately $18 per year.)
Assess the packet radio system located at the old Metropolitan fire tower to see if it is feasible to move it to the repeater site on Pine Mountain. Relocation to Pine Mountain would save the club approximately $260 per year in We Energies bills. The December newsletter will survey the readers about their use of the packet radio system to see if it is worth keeping.
Class 2A operation was conducted on 80, 40, 20 and 15 meters.Letters will be sent to Ebeling's IGA, Subway of Norway and LaFaive Oil thanking them for their support of our Field Day operation.
We had 215 CW QSOs (45 of which were on the Solar Station), 279 SSB QSOs (79 of which were on the GOTA Station) and 26 Digital QSOs.
We had 850 bonus points: 200 for emergency power, 100 for media publicity, 100 for setup in a public place, 100 for information booth, 100 for W1AW Field Day message, 100 for natural power, 100 for site visit by invited served agency official and 50 for submitting summary via the web.
Total score: 2,372 including bonus points.
There were 10 participants and 9 people signed the visitor's log.
We should have a large banner to draw passersby to our operation.Tom, W8JWN presented a bill to Steve for $74.50 in expenses for Field Day equipment (coaxial cable, rope, coax fittings, etc.)
The coaxial stubs worked well, but we need more, e.g. 80 meters.
Consider setting up a VHF station. It doesn't count against our 2A classification and we may be able to get some 6-meter contacts.
Correct the power surge problem. Terry has contacted a service rep for his generator and will repair the governor. Terry has a large desktop voltmeter that we can use to monitor generator voltage.
We should consider setting up a tower and beam antenna.
We should be better prepared for weather conditions. It would have been nice to have heaters for each operating position (temperature reached 47 degrees early Sunday Morning.)
$6.00 to register N3FJP's Field Day Software for the club callsign. Mike, K8DDB, was given $6.00 from the club's petty cash to do so.A PayPal account will be set up by Steve, KC8RYY, for ease of payment of future club purchases.
An as yet undetermined amount of money to purchase coax, tees, support line, etc., for Field Day. The material will be purchased from Tower Electronics in Green Bay and Radio Works.
$50.00 in cash for food for Field Day.
Committees (* denotes chairman):New Business:
Publicity: Mike K8DDB* and Tom W8JWN
Setup: Terry KB9ZER*, Lee N8LT, Tom W8JWN and Mike K8DDB
Operators: Tom W8JWN*, Mike K8DDB, Steve KC8RYY, Terry KB9ZER and Mike N9NBN (relief)
Food: Betty*, Terry KB9ZER
GOTA Station control operator: Lee N8LT*
Scoring and Reporting: ???
Tour Guide: ???
Major Equipment:
SSB Station: Icom 706MKIIG also for CW and Digital Modes (Tom W8JWN)
CW Station: Ten Tec Argonaut V - QRP to 20 watts max (Mike K8DDB) and Sierra with gel cell and solar panel for bonus points (Mike K8DDB)
GOTA Station: Icom 701, if ready (Tom W8JWN and Lee N8LT)
Backup rig: Kenwood TS850? (Mike N9NBN)
Antennas: Carolina Windom 40 to 10 meters (Tom W8JWN); Dipoles for 80, 40 and 20 meters (club); Beam, if we have a lift (Mike K8DDB)
Laptops: SSB Station (Mike N9NBN); CW Station (Mike K8DDB); GOTA Station (Steve KC8RYY?)
Generators: Motor home (Terry KB9ZER), Backup (Jim, KB8PTH)
The meeting day was changed to the second Tuesday of the month, beginning with the May meeting.New Business:
The meeting time was changed to 6:30 PM, beginning with the April meeting.
There will be a weekly net on the 2-meter repeater every Tuesday at 6:30 PM (with the exception of the second Tuesday of the month, which is club meeting night).
Saturday morning breakfasts will be held on the last Saturday of every month, beginning in April. The first breakfast will be on April 24th at 9:00 AM at the Holiday Kitchen in Iron Mountain.
Meetings will include a fifteen minute "show and tell", beginning with the May meeting. Bob Meyers is tentatively scheduled for the May meeting. We should have a primary presenter and a backup. Volunteers will be solicited in the monthly newsletter.
Three members had requested that the club help them learn CW. Mike Bray suggested that the club purchase a club/instructor version of Ham University which would allow 5 members to register the software at the regular $40 cost for the CD. Members wishing to register the software would split the $40 cost among themselves.