Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club
2007 Field Day

Field Day 2007 was held 23-24 June 2007, beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday and ending at 1800 UTC Sunday.

ARRL Posts Results for the 2007 Field Day

Bill, WF1L, reports:
The league has posted the results for Field Day and we didn't do too badly.
We were in the top 10% overall based on score and we came in 2nd in out category (3A) to Fauquier County ARC in our section.
Not too shabby, guys!
Congrats all around,
Bill - WF1L

   2007   overall ranking was   184  of  2,333  entries with 5,846 points and 1,403 QSOs
   2006   overall ranking was   210  of  2,184  entries with 5,554 points and 1,327 QSOs 
   2005   overall ranking was   242  of  2,202  entries with 5,126 points and 1,330 QSOs
   2004   overall ranking was   262  of  2,250  entries with 5,042 points and 1,236 QSOs
   2003   overall ranking was   589  of  2,085  entries with 2,748 points and    715 QSOs
   2002   overall ranking was   367  of  2,100  entries with 4,452 points and 1,280 QSOs

The Pictures

Here are some pictures.

A Loudoun TimesMirror Article

Here is a good article from a local newspaper.

The Tentative Results

Dick, W2YE, prepared our submitted our results to ARRL. Here is his report:

Here is a copy of the verification I received after submitting our info via the applet. Total score was 4156 QSO points plus 1690 bonus points for a total of 5846, subject to ARRL review. It's a bit of an increase from last year's 5554, due to increased QSOs (especially K7CS on CW, but a healthy increase in phone as well). That should put us well in the top 10 percent of logs for 3A, based on last year. Great job, every one!

ARRL Field Day Entry Form

Datestamp: 2007-06-28 11:53:55 PDT
Confirmation: a630fc94f0b8fef7

Call Used: K4NVA
GOTA Station Call: K4LDT
ARRL/RAC Section: VA
Class: 3A

Participants: 25
Club/Group Name: Sterling Park ARC

Power Source(s): Generator, Battery, Solar
Power Multiplier: 2X

Bonus Points:
100% Emergency power 300
Media Publicity 100
Set-up in Public Place 100
Information Booth 100
NTS message to ARRL SM/SEC 100
W1AW Field Day Message 100
Formal NTS messages handled - No.=10 100
Natural power QSOs completed 100
Site Visit by invited elected official 100
Youth participation 80
   Youth operators=4
   Youth participants=7
GOTA Bonus 160
Submitted via the Web 50
Non traditional mode: Digital Voice 100
Non traditional mode: SSTV 100
Non traditional mode: Olivia 100
Total Bonus Points 1,690

 
Score Summary:

CW Digital Phone Total
Total QSOs 661 14 728
Total Points 1322 28 728 2078

   
Claimed Score = Power multiplier (ie 2) times QSO Points (ie 2078) = 4,156

Submitted by:
Richard W. Maylott, W2YE
Call Box 599,
Sterling, VA, 20167
E-mail: [email protected]

Comments:
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Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:

CW QSOs Pwr(W) Digital QSOs Pwr(W) Phone QSOs Pwr(W)
160m



1 100
80m 211 100

233
 100
40m 320 100

151
 100
20m
 97
 100
 14
 100
 180
 100
15m
 32
 100

28
 100
10m
 1
 100

8
 100
6m



12
 100
2m



5
 100
1.25




100
Other





Satellite





GOTA



110
 100
Total
 661
14
728


GOTA Bonus: GOTA Coach - Double Bonus Points
Name/Call QSOs Bonus Points
Bill Aird, KI4DHY 20 40
Mark Whittington, (NONE) 20 40
Kelly Stuart, (NONE) 20 40
Adam Stueve, (NONE) 35 40
Misc., (NONE) 15 0

Dick, W2YE


The Plan

17 Jun 07: Updated plan is available for review and comment. Based upon discussion at June SPARC meeting.

Past Performance

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

   2006   overall ranking was   210  of  2,184  entries with 5,554 points and 1,327 QSOs 
   2005   overall ranking was   242  of  2,202  entries with 5,126 points and 1,330 QSOs
   2004   overall ranking was   262  of  2,250  entries with 5,042 points and 1,236 QSOs
   2003   overall ranking was   589  of  2,085  entries with 2,748 points and    715 QSOs
   2002   overall ranking was   367  of  2,100  entries with 4,452 points and 1,280 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  174
  Another 1000 points moves us to a ranking of 148
  Another 2000 points moves us to a ranking of   96
  Doubling our score moves us to a ranking of  31