Field Day 2009 is just ended. Arlington Amateur Radio Club station W4WVP welcomed many visitors, including Arlington County Commissioner of Revenue Ingrid Morroy and members of the Pentagon Amateur Radio Club, whose home station is being relocated. We hope that all had fun and learned a bit about ham radio. Please visit this page occasionally to see images and summaries as they trickle in.
We participated as a Class 10F station, which means we could have ten signals on the air at once (10) and were an Emergency Operations Center (F).
James, KB1JMV, provided this preliminary summary of activity at W4WVP:
Preliminary totals were: 15 participants 205 CW QSOs 33 Digital QSOs 111 Phone QSOs 42 States worked (all except AK,HI,ND,NE,NM,NV,UT,WY) Lew lapped the field in terms of QSOs with 173, next was Jack with 38, and then Mike with 32. There are a few of what look like bad entries in the logs; ...
The preliminary count of participants includes those who used FDlog. Our final count will include those who only signed the paper Guest Book, and perhaps some identified by other means.
Our effort to build, raise, and use a new half-wave dipole for the eighty meter band was successfully concluded, with contributions of labor and material by numerous people. At the conclusion of Field Day operation, we lowered the antenna and stored it for future use. The south antenna support remains in position, having been repositioned near the start of Field Day. The north antenna support is in the shack and can be relaunched when needed.
For logging, we again used our tweaked version (screenshot, .zip file) of WB6ZQZ's FDLOG software, with new text files for help menus, at busy HF operating positions . This software helps us ensure compliance with the Field Day rule that forbids operation of more than one transmitter on the same band and mode at one time. Operating positions not equipped with FDlog used paper logs. At all positions, we tried to enforce compliance with the rule by requiring use of a unique cone-shaped band-mode token, printed with band-mode combination, as a ticket to operate on a band-mode. One one occasion, some of these were used as dunce caps to ham it up for visiting ham-photographer KI6GOA. (Image expected; stay tuned.)
Check back for updates, scores, and more.
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