Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club
2010 Field Day

Field Day 2010 was held on Saturday, 26 Jun 10 at 1000 Local, when set up began, and ends on Sunday 27 Jun 10 at 1400 Local at Park View High School in Sterling, VA.


The Results

Bill, WF1L, reports: ARRL has posted the logs and scores from Field Day. We placed 15th Nationally and 1st in Virginia for our 3A category for Field Day.  Way to go, Team!

A collection of pictures from Field Day.

The Loudoun Times published two very nice articles on SPARC and Field Day. One before the event and one after the event.

Dick, W2YE, sends:

Submission to ARRL:

I have completed the online submittal and will be getting our supporting materials in the mail tomorrow.  Great job by all.  Total score:  8372
 
Here is the response from the ARRL "cabforms" submittal:
 
                         ARRL Field Day Entry Form

Datestamp: 2010-07-11 08:02:02 PDT
Confirmation: 78f2c5e25565dfac

Call Used: K4NVA     GOTA Station Call: NQ4K     ARRL/RAC Section: VA     Class: 3A

Participants: 25     Club/Group Name: Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club

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
  Site Visit by invited served agency official    100
  Youth participation                                      80
    Youth operators=4         
    Youth participants=4         
  GOTA Bonus                                             120
  Submitted via the Web                              50
  Educational activity                                 100
Total Bonus Points                                  1,550

Score Summary:
                            CW  Digital  Phone  Total
   Total QSOs   1230     61     829
Total Points    2460    122     829        3411   Claimed Score = 6,822

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

Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:
                        CW                     Digital               Phone
                     QSOs Pwr(W)  QSOs Pwr(W)  QSOs Pwr(W)
      160m                                      
       80m          196    100                                      217    100
       40m          413    100                                      222    100
       20m          463    100           60    100             154    100
       15m          138    100            1    100                20    100
       10m            20    100                                        82    100
        6m                                                                   29    100
        2m                                                                     5    100
      1.25                                      
     Other                                      
Satellite                                      
      GOTA                                                            100    100
     TOTAL    1230                      61                     829

GOTA Bonus: GOTA Coach - Double Bonus Points
Name/Call        QSOs  Bonus Points
Mitch, (NONE)     31     40
Chris, (NONE)      1         0
Tyler, (NONE)      3         0
Linda, K4LDT     52       80
Emily, (NONE)      1         0
Karen, (NONE)     2         0
Gillian, (NONE)    3         0
Gary, K4SRX        7         0

The Plan
4 May 10: Initial plan is available for review and comment. Will be basis of discussion at May SPARC meeting.

A Goal

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

  Another 360 points moves us to a ranking of  76
  Another 1000 ppints moves us to a ranking of 67
  Another 2000 points moves us to a ranking of  53
  Doubling our score moves us to a ranking of  8

Past Performance

Bill, WF1L, and Jim, AF4MO, found the numbers for our 2009 field day performance on the ARRL web site:

In VA Section,  we were 8 of 75 entries
In 3A Category, we were 10 of 305 entries
In 3A in VA Section, we were 1 of 12 entries

Overall
   2009   overall ranking was     90  of  2,612  entries with 8,210 points and 2,217 QSOs
   2008   overall ranking was   112  of  2,409  entries with 7,000 points and 1,922 QSOs 
   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

Congratulations!