Field Day 2010 June 26/27

This year was a bit different. There was no Field Day Chair, no one to honcho the tasks or roust up the crew. We used the Collaborative Method of everyone doing what they could to help. Just like a real emergency. I worked! Scoring was accumulated by John Mitchell

GVFD (27K) Once again, we were the guests of the Green Valley Fire District Administration Building and allowed to use their Training Center on Encanto and Camino del Sol. Activites for the weekend included:



AntennaSetup-Small (40K) Setup 5:00 pm Friday, June 25th with a few of the gang going out to dinner at Los Agaves - around 7 or 8. Setup-small (51K)
BatterySetup-small (19K) BeamSetup-Small (18K) SolarPanelSetup-Small (61K)
GeneSetup-small (30K) LoggingInstructions-small (27K)


20MeterGear-small (42K) Contest Started at 11:00 MST am (18:00 UTC) 20MetersOps-2-small (17K)
20MetersOps-3-small (39K) 20MetersOps-4-small (22K) 20MetersOps-5-small (39K)
20MetersOps-small (48K) 40MetersOps-small (53K) 40MetersOps-2-small (23K)


Potluck-small-1 (41K) Potluck Lunch - NOON June 26th
All sorts of folks brought a dish to share, the Meat was be provided by GVARC.
Potluck-small-2 (42K)
Potluck-small-3 (42K) Potluck-small-4 (20K)



SatelliteQSO-small-1 (33K) Around 2:15 on Saturday, Ray Soifer tried to make a Satellite contact - lots of chatter but no exchange for Ray! It was a good show! SatelliteQSO-small (42K)
SatelliteQSO-small-3 (39K) SatelliteQSO-small-2 (38K)


FireCorpVisit-small (20K) Contest ends 11:00 am MST June 27th (18:00 UTC)
We had some local dignitaries & an Information Table for those who saw our banner and stopped by.
InformationDesk-small (42K)



Gathering-1-small (20K) Break down and cleanup 11:00 to noon June 27th. Gathering-3-small (44K)


Gathering-2-small (21K) Lots of folks had a great time! And we did not do to badly in the contest! OurResults-small (49K)

Our results from this year garnered us 2,842 points. If you want a comparison to the past five years, here they are.

Photos by Steve Baker, Jon Otto, and Don Doehring.