Field Day Results:

As announced on the ARRL web site, SPARC did very well. See bottom of page for comparison with previouls year's results.

   2006   overall ranking was   210  of  2,184  entries with 5,554 points and 1,327 QSOs

Loudoun Times-Mirror Article:

7 Nov 06: A nice article in the local newspaper, the Loudoun Times-Mirror with the results from Field Day.

28 Jun 06: A good article with an excellent picture in the local Loudoun Times-Mirror.

Pictures:

3 July 06: A lot of pictures uploaded. Please email if there are mistakes in captioning.

Field Day Plan

21 Jun 06: Updated plan for your review and comment.
  Changes from the 2nd draft (made at the 19 Jun 06 meeting are:
     The club decided to purchase food for the 6:00 PM party vice having individual members bring food. Don, K7CS, will organize a food run at about 5 PM.
     The RTTY/SSB station will also be configured for CW.
     Linda, K4LDT volunteered to be the GOTA Station Coach. She did an excellent job last year - see her comments at the 2005 Field Day page.
     Russ, W3RST, will bring a spare radio.
     Bill, WF1L, will handle the message traffic for additional points.
     Kevin, W4KLS, will bring a pop-up tent to use in place of one of the Clubs canopy tents. (Just in case it rains.)

  Changes from the 1st draft are:
     Pointed G5RV north-south to complement the east-west direction of other wire antennas.
     Updated radios.
     Started a few sentances to organize Party starting at 6 PM on Saturday. Jim, AF4MO, suggested we get volunteers to bring a few dishes to feed the hungry hams.

Past Performance

I found the numbers for our past performance on the ARRL web site:

   2002   overall ranking was   367  of  2,100  entries with 4,452 points and 1,280 QSOs
   2003   overall ranking was   589  of  2,085  entries with 2,748 points and    715 QSOs
   2004   overall ranking was   262  of  2,250  entries with 5,042 points and 1,236 QSOs
   2005   overall ranking was   242  of  2,202  entries with 5,126 points and 1,330 QSOs

In order to move up in the rankings based upon last year's log entries:

  Another 500  points moves us to a ranking of  203
  Another 1000 points moves us to a ranking of 170
  Another 2000 points moves us to a ranking of 109
  Another 2,224 points moves us into double digits
  Doubling our score moves us to a ranking of   30