Not our best score, but a solid learning experience this year. Equipment that we had been using regularly failed on us, and we adjusted and kept operating. Thunderstorms rolled through, but only shut us down for a few minutes. And as always, as dinner arrived our ARRL Division Director showed up!

Operating from temporary stations on the USS Yorktown is always fun, especially watching the pelicans, cargo ships, and sunset. Being outside the Boy Scout camping area allowed us to share with the scouts, and a visiting scoutmaster took over our phone station for a while.

Band conditions were not great, but for the most part we were able to work everybody we heard, and ran frequencies a bit. 40 and 20m were our primary bands, though 15m provided some good contacts. Curiously we didn't have cross-station interference using two vertical antennas; we normally have problems when mixing verticals and dipoles.

My favorite QSO was with the six-year-old GOTA operator at a MDC station (must be this guy http://www.arrl.org/soapbox/view/9427).