2017 Field Day QSO Numbers

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Posted: 6/25/2017 2:17:36 PM EDT

How many did you get?

106 confirmed here. All phone on an FT-857D running emerge power.

117 if you count the ones where I was in the middle of the QSO and either QSB or QRM got me.

Edit: These are my personal numbers. I'm not counting the QSOs I completed with the ham club.

Posted: 6/25/2017 8:04:29 PM EDT

[#1]

80 QSOs on 15, 20, and 40 CW operating 1D with 50 Watts into my trap/fan dipole.

CW with a head cold sucks.

Posted: 6/25/2017 8:46:26 PM EDT

[#2]

211 total for me, running 1E, mostly on my FT-857D on battery, and a few on my FT-1000 while I was running generator to recharge the deep cycle battery for the 857.

200 phone, 10 digital, and 1 CW. About 90 of those phone QSOs were on 6m. All HF contacts were on the 132' doublet, with the 6m contacts on the 3 element yagi.

Posted: 6/25/2017 10:14:33 PM EDT

[#3]

Buddy and I got 160 contacts which is better then some previous years and we had fun so I'll count that as a good weekend.

Posted: 6/25/2017 10:18:31 PM EDT

[#4]

I can't believe it.....I actually pulled up even with Frank. He usually kicks my a$$.

I ended up with 80 QSO's. All CW. About 80% were on 20m, and the rest were on 40m, except for 3 on 15m.

Operating 1E, at 5 watts on a battery powered K2. Attic dipole, and my temporary backyard 40m end-fed.

Posted: 6/25/2017 11:12:58 PM EDT

[#5]

We were at about 250 CW contacts when I left at about midnight. Don't know the total score yet.
I got home, sat in a chair and heard the AC fan kick in. I swear I heard a faint CW pattern: "CQ FD" in the fan noise.

Posted: 6/26/2017 7:20:31 AM EDT

[#6]

I had an unlicensed friend over to experience the magic of fd and we worked probably 5 hours Saturday and 2 Sunday. We operated my home station on 100w and managed 486 contacts. He had never made a qso before so after that and after him trying to run and experiencing the feeling of getting it right while running, I think he'll be getting licensed soon - so thats a boon.

Posted: 6/26/2017 8:26:26 AM EDT

[#7]

Not too many contactsmade. Had to work all day Saturday, but i did play a little sat night and sunday morning. 15m was real nice. Had about a dozen 5 watt or less cw contacts to west and east coast. Several at 1.6watts.. That made my day, nice space wx conditions compared to last year. Now I wish i would have taken vacation from work and enjoyed the event. Funny how the propagation pipeline favors different locations.

Prosise

Posted: 6/26/2017 9:18:05 AM EDT

[#8]

It was an overly busy weekend for me, so I only had about a half hour to work the club station on Saturday, and just 15 minutes to work 20M from home on Sunday.

I did have one station come back at S9+20. He was a US ham in an aeromobile station over Cuba. Definately one of my coolest QSOs.

Posted: 6/26/2017 9:43:08 AM EDT

[#9]

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We were at about 250 CW contacts when I left at about midnight. Don't know the total score yet.
I got home, sat in a chair and heard the AC fan kick in. I swear I heard a faint CW pattern: "CQ FD" in the fan noise.

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I always have that happen after working CW contests. Whenever there's white noise in the background, my brain makes up a bunch of CW

Our logging software ate my first 18 contacts but I was able to recover them this morning. We ended up with 366 total QSOs, 189 of them mine. A little annoyed I didn't break 200 there!

I got:

7 CW and 1 phone contact on 10
30 CW contacts on 15
50 CW contacts on 40
And the rest were on 20

Posted: 6/26/2017 4:43:25 PM EDT

[#10]

I got 50 or so Q's... from home on Six before & after my time at the club station. Several new grids

As a rough guess, 250 personal contacts on HF from the club operation. Not very good for the number of hours there.

Clubs that have HF covered in the daytime should think about adding 6m. Pretty common for Sporadic E to be open midday to early evenings.

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I got home, sat in a chair and heard the AC fan kick in. I swear I heard a faint CW pattern: "CQ FD" in the fan noise.

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I got home, sat in a chair and heard the AC fan kick in. I swear I heard a faint CW pattern: "CQ FD" in the fan noise.

It's even worse if you sit and work phone for a long period of time, trying to pull voices out of the noise. Then you start trying to pull voices out of road noise on the way home or something

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I did have one station come back at S9+20. He was a US ham in an aeromobile station over Cuba. Definately one of my coolest QSOs.

I have worked Cuba on 6m, no way to get a card though

Posted: 6/26/2017 4:55:24 PM EDT

[#11]

I made one token aeromobile contact; mainly to demonstrate the field day procedures to a non-ham.

Posted: 6/26/2017 5:05:53 PM EDT

[#12]

Unknown total for the club, I think I had about 20-30 between 20m and 40m. At the end I logged for my father running 6m pointed toward Ohio, he made something like 60 QSO.

Posted: 6/26/2017 6:42:44 PM EDT

[#13]

Me and an unlicensed buddy got 87 contacts. Phone 20 and 40. Had a good time, nice fire, and cooked some steaks. Also had some vitamin B.

Posted: 6/26/2017 6:48:35 PM EDT

[#14]

I just got my ticket in March.
So, I worked in the GOTA station. I made my 100 contacts in 1hour and 10minutes on Sunday morning!

Posted: 6/26/2017 8:20:43 PM EDT

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I just got my ticket in March.
So, I worked in the GOTA station. I made my 100 contacts in 1hour and 10minutes on Sunday morning!

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That's a very good rate for a newcomer.

Posted: 6/26/2017 11:36:32 PM EDT

[#16]

I'll have to go through my log to remove duplicates, but I'm pretty sure it was ZERO.

I was pretty busy this weekend, and field day didn't get high enough on the priority list to get any attention.

Posted: 6/27/2017 9:46:11 AM EDT

[#17]

Here's our score from this past weekend. I worked about 425 Q's on 40m phone on Saturday afternoon.

Station: NW8S
Class: 5A LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160: 9
80: 200 74
40: 410 657 13
20: 291 111 11
15: 110 146
10: 17 73
6: 19
Total: 1037 1080 24 Total Score = 8,058

Posted: 6/27/2017 11:57:28 AM EDT

[#18]

I think I was around 50 or so for my club, which was down from other years. However, the club total was 613, far above previous years. I crashed around 2AM and slept in the back of my truck (that was a bad idea). Woke up around 5:30 and thought I would get a station, but we were 3A and three radios were in use.

Posted: 6/28/2017 10:10:16 AM EDT

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That's a very good rate for a newcomer.

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I just got my ticket in March.
So, I worked in the GOTA station. I made my 100 contacts in 1hour and 10minutes on Sunday morning!

That's a very good rate for a newcomer.

My Elmer is the club champ on phone.

Posted: 6/29/2017 5:13:33 PM EDT

[#20]

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I can't believe it.....I actually pulled up even with Frank. He usually kicks my a$.

I ended up with 80 QSO's. All CW. About 80% were on 20m, and the rest were on 40m, except for 3 on 15m.

Operating 1E, at 5 watts on a battery powered K2. Attic dipole, and my temporary backyard 40m end-fed.

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Given the power level, energy source, and antenna, I'd say it's the other way around!

Funny thing is, I practiced on the paddles for a couple of days so I could use them for Field Day, and when I tried them again last night, I couldn't send for shit.
Screw it! I'm going back to my bug!

Posted: 6/29/2017 6:55:24 PM EDT

[#21]

I managed 126 phone contacts.

All hunt-and-pounce.

Posted: 6/30/2017 9:13:17 PM EDT

[#22]

W2S was the call we were running, made 100 CW contacts... not personally, I was logging for the guy making them. He's a CW machine with his bug. Was on 40m, using my FT897 and a G5RV Jr antenna. We were class 6A, but not all 6 stations were operating all the time. Usually 4-5, except at night, where only 1-2 were still going, the rest of us passed out.

456 total contacts
329 phone
27 dig
100 cw
582 qso points

We're not hard core operators, and packed up around 10AM on sunday. Only made 18 contacts myself, all on 15m.

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