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2016 FIELD DAY RECAP

Field Day Planning Team

July 5th, 2016

Nashua Area Radio Club

Our Field Day Planning Team

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Member Call Leading Tom Mahon AB1NS Safety Officer, Station Master Fred Kemmerer AB1OC Field Day Incident Commander, Station Master Anita Kemmerer AB1QB Scoring Chairman Mike Rush KU1V Wire Antenna Chairperson (with help from Fred) Mike Ryan K1WVO Tower/Beam Co‐ Chairperson, Station Master Wayne Grant KB1HYL Tower/Beam Co‐ Chairperson, GOTA Station Master John Wight KB1RWI Station Master Don Risley KC1CRK Power Chairperson; Equipment Co‐Chairperson Merle Insinga W1MSI Food Chairperson Greg Fuller W1TEN Solar Chairman, Station Master Lee Hill N1BA Station Master Dave Michaels Murray Hensch N1RF K1MUR Equipment Co‐Chairpersons

Hollis Brookline High School Site Layout

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Tower 1 ‐ SSB/Digital w/75 Inv‐V & 70cm ATV Tower 2 ‐ CW w/40m & 80m Inv‐V, 6m Yagi on Rotator

40m SSB V‐Beam Array

SSB Tnt1 SSB Tnt2 Public Info CW Tnt 1

Generator

Food Tnt

• Maximize Tower

Spacing

• Dotted circles are

fall zones

• Aim all HF Antennas

260o

• HF Tribander fixed

mounted on CW tower

• Rotator on CW

Tower for 6m Yagi

• Must aim 70 cm

Antenna on Tower 1 to NVRC Site (205o)

• 7/8” Hardline to Tnt3
• Leo Sat Station on

table (sun shade)

• Public Information

Tent visible from parking lot

• Place tarp under

generator

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GOTA 20m BP

Leo Sat CW Tnt 2 6M Tnt

Field Day Highlights

New items in bold

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• HF Antennas:
• Two 40 ft. towers with Tri‐band Yagis
• 40m V‐Beam Array; 40m, 75m and

80m Inverted‐Vs; GOTA Buddipole

• A total of 7 stations (7A) on the air
• HF: QRV SSB/Digital and CW on 80/75m, 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m
• 20m GOTA Station
• VHF: 4 Elements on 6m; QRV SSB Phone, CW and Digital (M‐S)
• UHF: Demo of 70cm Digital ATV Link with NVRC Field Day Site
• Satellite station – LEO Easy (FM) Sats
• High Performance Wire Antenna Training on Saturday
• Gourmet Meals at the N1FD Café (cold drinks 24‐7)
• Field Day Tech Night
• Public Information Tent

Lots of opportunities to Operate and learn new things!

Score Summary

Significant Improvement Over Last Year!

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• 2015 Field Day – 8A: 7,210
• QSO Score – 5,520
• Bonus – 1,690
• 2016 Field Day – 7A: 9,292
• QSO Score – 7,362
• Bonus – 1,930

Band CW Phone Digital 80m 41 228 40m 524 528 20m 612 192 15m 37 176 6m 97 70cm DATV 1 Satellite 1 2 GOTA 25 Total 1,214 1,247 3

Total QSOs: 2,464

Field Day 2016

What Went Well

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• Great participation, lots of help to setup!
• Everyone operated hard – great participation through

Saturday night!

• Food was excellent!
• Fox hunt and VHF/UHF stations were great additions!
• Had several lifetime club members pay us a visit – it

was nice to see these folks!

• Filter Testing and New Coax helped us get out better
• Will need to continue to invest here
• Did a better job capturing bonus points
• Multi‐band radios split between daytime (10m/15m)

and nighttime bands (75m/80m) worked well

• IC‐7300s were clean and performed well

Field Day 2016

What We Can Improve

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• Need more help on Sunday teardown and gear storage in BOB
• Last minute no‐shows of two station masters
• We recovered well – thanks to those who stepped in to help!
• Some N1MM+/Radio glitches – will consider an IT Chairman for

next year

• Some relatively minor power setup and equipment assembly

problems – we recovered well

• Some more pre‐Field Day staging may help
• BOB and some of the gear in it needs attention and re‐packing
• Mike K1WVO has an excellent list
• We need to fully test items for bonus points
• Including on‐site tests where ability to get out could be in question
• Interference between GOTA and other stations
• Improved visibility with general public
• Develop more CW Ops! – CW Training Classes

Field Day 2016

Under Consideration for Next Year

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• 6 Elements for 40m V‐Beam
• Will put up 6 masts next year!
• Some sort of 80m Wire Beam
• On site internet access, real‐time score sharing

between stations

• Possible 2M EME station
• A third tower, antennas and digital only

station(s) ‐ Only Kidding!

Field Day 2016

A Final Message From The Incident Commander

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THANK YOU!!!!