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Field Day 2012
Scoring Under the
not so big "Big Top"

We used our usual 5 military towers again for the main antennae collection along with plenty of heavy coax! We had to get the maximum separation between the main station towers (CW and Phone) to minimize intermod.

The results are still preliminary and we don't have the final official tally on bonus points yet. While we are definitely headed for the Cycle 24 maximum, the solar flux numbers were nothing to write home about, there was a fair amount of HF activity and fortunately the A index numbers stayed reasonable enough to make 40m one of our big scoring efforts on CW. Unfortunately some kind of  antenna glitch put the 40m phone beam out of action. Six meters was fair to middling and 2m was virtually non existent. We seem to have come in just under last year's herculean effort so we should do pretty well this year too. 

FARA fared much better this year in the culinary department because the Boston Concession Group of Center Plate was back with us again thanks to the masterful  persuasiveness of our own Bob Courtemanche, N1WAT.

FARA again expresses its gratitude to all of our benefactors who pitched in with donations and loans.

OUR THANKS FOR:
Food: Chris Ball and the Boston Concession Group of Center Plate in Mashpee
Shelter:  Barnstable County Sheriff Cummings and Ralph Swenson, N1YHS, Deputy Sheriff Barnstable County for the Big Top and especially that neat orange jump suited gang to erect it.
Facility: The Barnstable County Fairgrounds
Generators: Thanks again to Jim Leavitt for supplying his neat propane fueled generators and to Charlie Bresnahan, K1CB for doing the Sunday morning breakfast.
Stations: Thanks to station captains: Greg Cronin, W1KM, and Jan Carman, K5MA, CW, Henry Brown, K1WCC, Phone, Geoff Allsup, W1OH, VHF/UHF, Mike Spivack, K1VTR, GOTA.
Labor: Last but not least, thanks to all FARA members who showed up to help out, we can't do this without you so you do make the difference!
Photos: Courtesy Dick, K1MGH, and Jim KC1KM

Preliminary results and comparisons to prior years:
 

Field Day

2012 (2A)

2011 (2A)

2010 (2A)

  CW Phone CW Phone CW Phone
160m            
80m 159 121 66 59 54 23
40m 603 190 506 109 374 75
20m 568 743 659 578 414 271
15m 221 215 313 276 167 38
10m     72 228 32 120
6m 18 58 59 353 13 61
2m   1     1 1
sat   28   20   24
GOTA   66   16    
             
Totals 1569 1488 1675 1655 1055 613
Combined 3057   3330   1668  
Points 4626   5005   2723  
Pwr Mult 2   2   2  
Claimed 9252   10010   5446  
Bonuses 1320   1420   750  
Score* 10572*   11430*   6196*  
Score**     11430**      
Class 2A   2A  

2A

 
      * claimed ** Final  

FD 12 pix

 

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