Falmouth Amateur Radio Association Field Day Wrap up

Our leisurely attempt at Field Day designed to encourage more operating participation and less "contesting" atmosphere, goes into the log books.

We were back to 5 military towers again for the main antennae, thanks to being able to acquire a replacement kit for the mysteriously disappearing tower kit bag. Missing this year were the saide and back curtains for our two original tents that we had to use for the food/GOTA tent this year. Seems there was only one side curtain and two back curtains for both tents. Hmmm - anyone know where they might have gone?

The results are still preliminary and we don't have the final tally on bonus points yet. We're still diddling around in a near solar minimum which lingers on a lot longer than any of the pro's would have expected. There was some E skip, some very snatchy tropo on vhf/uhf, and no long haul propagation to speak of. We didn't fare too badly in the QSO department compared to last year, but this year we were missing one of our principal CW weapons. Thanks to FARA member Greg Kronin, W1KM, no slouch at CW himself, who ably stepped in and racked up the points.

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

OUR THANKS FOR:

Food:	Centerplate (Boston Culinary) and Bob Courtemanche, N1WAT, our own food maven with his ever present helper Dan Martin, N1TCV. All the FARA members and family who brought supplemental goodies!
Shelter:	Barnstable County Sheriff Cummings and Ralph Swenson, N1YHS, Deputy Sheriff Barnstable County for the use of the ECC van.
Flatbed Trailer:	Lee Thomas, NQ1L; a really nifty way to get our equipment out of the storage container Lee and distributed on to the field.
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, CW, Henry Brown, K1WCC, Phone, Geoff Allsup, W1OH, VHF/UHF, Mike Spivack, K1VTR, GOTA. Thanks also to Jan Carman, K5MA for the use of his fine CW station setup.
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!

Preliminary results and comparisons to prior years:
Notes: don't have sufficient information yet to score extra points. Anybody know where the visitor log went?

Field Day	2010 (2A)		2009 (2A)		2008 (2A)		2007 (2A)
	CW	Phone	CW	Phone	CW	Phone	CW	Phone
160m
80m	54	23	135	28	224	19	232	174
40m	374	75	330	278	424	240	526	22
20m	414	271	484	680	372	810	321	408
15m	167	38	249	175	227	12	61	75
10m	32	120	5		238	152	8
6m	13	61	5	46	7	262		33
2m	1	1	2	3		1		4
sat		24		11		17		6
GOTA				113	10	238	5	81

Totals	1055	613	1210	1447	1502	1751	1153	803
Combined	1668		2657		3253		1956
Points	2723		3867		4755		3109
Pwr Mult	2		2		2		2
Claimed	5446		7734		9510		6218
Bonuses	750		1190		1630		1370
Score*	6196*		8924*		11140*		7588
Score**			8924**		11532**
Class			2A		2A		2A
	* claimed
	** Final per QST