FIELD DAY 2001
Pictures and Report
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| Max, one of two official mascots of the SOJOURNERS Field Day 2001 |
The SOJOURNERS "COMMAND POST" and FIELD STATION W6SOJ. |
Station One, ops Bob, WA7IZU and Ed, K7DXV |
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Station Two (Bus), |
Dave, K6SOJ, calling: "CQ Field Day from W6SOJ, 5 Alpha Sacramento Valley", from inside his 1971 Ford / Gillig / Caterpillar school bus. Rig is an ICOM 706 into a 1/4 wave (40 meter) vertical, using the 12,000 lb. steel bus as a counter-poise. |
Rob, KB2EUC, operating at Station Four |
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| Terry, N2RSI, David, N2RSN and 'Guard Dog Snoopy', Station Four Team | Station Four-Solar Power |
"Dos Equis anyone?" |
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QRV...this is Station Five |
Carter, W6YJG, looking alert! |
Carter, W6YJG,more alert |
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Saturday Night Potluck |
Buck, W6HOR: "Nice doggy" |
"Take Cover!" |
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Top Band Vertical. Up... |
Too Many Cooks? |
Up...and away! |
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Fergy, N6SSQ shows Nannette, KE6MZT a satellite tracking program |
Earth to space, Earth to space... |
Official Satellite QSO logger, Nannette, KE6MZT |
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Earth Station W6SOJ, CN81, contacts W7JPI, DM41 (Sonoita, AZ) via AO27 |
Mission accomplished! |
WAS! |
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12.5 KW of emergency power |
2001 FIELD DAY REPORT
| Total number of contacts: | 573 |
| Total minus dupes: | 547 |
| Note: All figures below have dupes removed..!! | |
| Total CW QSO's : | 279 |
| Total Phone QSO's: | 234 |
| Total Digital QSO's: | 34 |
| Total points: | 860 |
| With power multiplier: | 1720 |
| Emergency power: | 500 |
| Msg to section leader: | 100 |
| Media publicity: | 100 |
| Public location: | 100 |
| Public info table: | 100 |
| NTS traffic | 10 |
| Alt power (solar) | 100 |
| W1AW bulletin | 100 |
| Govt. official visit | 100 |
| Grand total............. | 2930 points (whew..!!) |
Breakdown by operator:
Number of QSO's in the YL category:
KG6GNR 46 (Winner of the Warwood strainer..!!)
N2RSI 30
KE6MZT 18
N6SVV 18
CW QSO's:
N6SSQ 83
W6HOR 75
W6YJG 75
WA7IZU 27
K7DXV 16
K7NCE 3
Phone QSO'S:
KG6GNR 46
N2RSN 42
WA7IZU 39
N2RSI 34
KC7ODE 21
K7NCE 20
K6SOJ 16
KB2EUC 7
KE6MZT 5
KD6PCE 4
Operators with most total contacts:
N6SSQ 83
W6HOR 75
W6YJG 75
WA7IZU 66
These 4 operators produced 299 contacts for 55 percent of
the total QSO's.
