2007 ARRL Field Day
The combination of great friends, great food, and incredible weather made for a very memorable weekend. The NBARC crew once again ran 2C with our CW station aboard the 30' Sloop Destiny and Phone station aboard the 46' Ketch Bellerophon. (Proudly flying the ARRL Battle Flag and NB1RI signal flags)
Brad KA1SVW and Steve KA1RCI purchased provisions for weekend and packed Bellerophon on Thursday night. They set sail from the Edgewood Yacht Club early on Friday afternoon June 22nd and watched the Blue Angles flying practice formations while sailing down to the NBARC field day site just off shore of Prudence Island outside of Potters Cove, RI. They arrived on station at their field day anchorage Friday evening and then Ernie N1SW arrived on station in Destiny early Saturday morning.
Saturday and Sunday we were just a few miles from the air show and got to watch all the fun from the boat while operating the ARRL field day event. The F-22 "Raptor" (I think that is what I was watching on Saturday) did a high speed low level pass directly over our boat that shook us! It was AWESOME!!! I think that we saw a vintage B-29 boomer too, is that possible?
Ernie N1SW did an Awesome job with the CW station operating for approximately 11.5 hours making 247 CW QSO's in 33 states for 494 points taking first place in our class at the national level again this year.
Brad KA1SVW and Steve KA1RCI operated for approximately 13 hours making 257 Phone QSO's in 36 states for 257 points.
Between both our CW and phone stations we worked 44 states and most of the Canadian providences for a grand total of 751 QSO points not counting any bonus points.
Brad has also taken a few hundred very high resolution photos, once time allows I will post them on our website http://saltyhams.org
Thank you, Steve
ARRL Rhode Island Section
Assistant Section Manager
Steven M Hodell, KA1RCI
ka1rci@arrl.net
President - Narragansett Bay Amateur Radio Club
steve@ka1rci.net
NBARC Information - NB1RI
http://saltyhams.org
nb1ri@saltyhams.org -- KA1RCI
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