1999 ARRL Field Day

Heart O' Texas Amateur Radio Club
June 23-24, 1999

Field Day is an annual operating event for US and Canadian hams that tests our emergency preparedness and operating prowess. It is also a time for fun and fellowship while getting away from it all! The Heart O' Texas Amateur Radio Club has partipated in many Field Day competitions through the years and has recently called Hewitt City Park (Hewitt, TX) home.

We test the capabilities of our emergency trailer that is stocked with:

We also setup a secondary HF station under the park pavillion and this year the transciever was connected to an 80m rhombic directed to the northeast.

Each year we try to incorporate one or more "exotic" modes of operation. This year PSK31 was selected and we made quite a few contacts showing off this new mode of communicaton. We also worked with the Waco Area Televison Society (WATS) to launch a kite with an amateur radio television attached. This "bird" produced some very wild real-time video due to the high winds.

 

Here is how we fared against other 2A North Texas clubs:

Club Call Contacts Pwr Particpants Score
Southwest Dallas County ARC WA5AUY 1088 2 19 3,536
Ham Assoc. of Mesquite WJ5J 1254 2 40 3,308
Rockwall County ARES K5RN 962 2 18 2,770
Johnson County ARC AA5XN 661 2 14 2,430
Garland ARC K5QHD 677 2 85 2,374
The Twenty-Four Gang KN5I 681 2 27 2,120
Radio Active Camp & Contest Club K5RAC 302 5 13 2,120
Arlington ARC K5SLD 603 2 35 1,990
Palestine/Anderson Co. ARC KC5ONH 495 2 15 1,590
Nortel Networks ARC NT5NT 512 2 12 1,550
Tyler ARC K5TYR 526 2 12 1,488
Temple ARC W5LM 504 2 35 1,414
Heart O' Texas ARC (HOTARC) W5ZDN 311 2 15 1,390
Sabine Valley ARA W5A 217 2 21 1,280
Grayson County ARC KC5OLI 287 2 18 1,224
Irving ARC N5BB 183 2 10 1,054
Coppell/DFW ARC KJ5QQ 263 2 18 932

NOTE: Concerning the Pwr column
2 = 150 watts
5 = less than 5 watts (QRP).

Thanks to the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) for the above information.

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