Author: Dan Farwell
JULY 2002 DARC MEETING
July 2002
President: Ron Sappington WI7Z V.P.: Dan Farwell W8EQA
Secretary: Mike Wellhoff KC7HGA Treasurer:Travis Lofthouse KD7FRN
Board of Directors: Casey Lofthouse, Travis Lofthouse, Duane Beecher
Our
next DARC meeting will be on Wednesday July 17th, 2002
At
7:00 PM at the Dixie College Student Services Building (3rd Floor).
There
will be talk-in assistance on 146.91- to help you find the club site if you’re
not sure.
The
following is a list of those who passed their license tests at the Field Day VE
session:
Chuck Hardy -- upgraded to General -- KB7LDC
Paul Webster -- upgraded to Extra -- KC7QJR (from Vegas)
Seth Mildenhall -- upgraded to General -- KD7RPL (13 Years old)
Maren Mildenhall -- new Technician -- KD7RZC (12 years old)
Jill Rapier -- new Technician -- KD7RZD
Janine Hinkle -- new Technician -- KD7RZE
DARC FIELD DAY 2002
June 22, 2002 has come and gone and another successful Field Day is in
the log book.
This year we conducted a VE session along with the festivities and are
very pleased to announce that we had six license applicants and SIX
new hams or upgrades.
There were over 30 visitors and operators who signed in at the event
sign-in sheet and probably a fair number who helped but, didn’t sign-in.
Many thanks to all who put so much energy into the event:
Ron Sappington did a great job trying to keep everybody happy.
Russ Bateman supplied the heavy equipment (generator and cw trailer).
Jim Cowley and Walt May supplied the antennas and without the help of
people like George Mackley, Casey Lofthouse and Gary Zabrinski (to name a few) the antennas never would
have been put up.
Walt May made a very generous donation of three very fine wire antennas,
complete with a Field Day carrying case to store them in.
Let’s not forget the BBQ. Dan Sadler went above and beyond the call of
duty there! His expertise behind that grill was greatly appreciated!!
Travis Lofthouse had, by far the best homemade beans. And I’m told there
may be a bean cook-off for next years’ event.
There were two stations (2A), one CW and one SSB, with some great help
on CW (Ken Gully, K7PU and Bob Peterson, W7UT)
The combined QSO total was over 800 contacts and between the two
stations we contacted all of the US states.
On Sunday our club got a front page story in the local paper that was
very informative and supportive of our emergency preparedness exercise.
Our score total is pending acceptance of all of our extra point
categories. But, it was a fine show all told!!
Many thanks again for everyone’s help I making a great Field Day and I
hope everyone had a good time.
Raw Score breakdowns:
Summary
for CW mode of operation
BAND
QSO-Pts X MULT
= TOTAL
80
39 2 78
40
151 2 302
20
138 2 276
15
104 2 208
10
1 2 2
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433 X 2 pts X 2 =
1732
Summary
for PHONE mode of operation
BAND
QSO-Pts X MULT
= TOTAL
40
170 2 340
20
186 2 372
15
39 2 78
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395 X 1 pts X 2 790
POST
SCRIPT:
Just
a little reality check to what our brothers are doing in the Salt Lake City
area club using only ONE transmitter.
Callsign Used : NC7J
Operators : K7CO NG7M W7CT
Default Exchange : 1A UT
Team/Club : UTAH CONTEST CLUB
BAND Raw QSOs Valid
QSOs Points
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80CW 76 76 60
40CW 399 380 512
40SSB 215 213 180
20CW 679 639 1150
20SSB 466 442 403
15CW 394 381 426
15SSB 163 156 156
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Totals 2392 2287 2887
Now there’s something to shoot for next year!!
Dan W8EQA
DON’T FORGET THE ARRL ROCKY MOUNTAIN
CONVENTION AND HAMFEST AT RUBY’S INN
JULY 12-13-14, BRYCE CANYON, UTAH