Catalina Radio Club Field Day Information

Due to the Stage IV Emergency Area Fire Closure of Coronado National Forest because of extreme fire danger, which was effective June 9 to July 31, we were unable to hold Field Day at our usual Bear Wallow location in the Santa Catalina Mountains.

The CRC/RST Field Day Team decided to hold a reduced-scope Field Day at Owen Watson AK7AR's compound just west of Sahuarita. He has several stations and antennas already operational in air-conditioned comfort, and exterior room for plenty more. We operated in Class E (home station with emergency power), allowing use of existing infrastructure as well as portable antennas with the stations run on emergency (generator) power. We had 8 stations set up and available for use.

Our intention to take the lack of Mt Lemmon and make lemmonade out of it was successful, we had a FINE time doing Field Day in the 107F desert, and still placed FIRST in the FUN category!

From the 107F desert south of Tucson, ....

                         ARRL Field Day Entry Form

Call Used: W7SA 			
GOTA Station Call: (none) 			
ARRL/RAC Section: AZ			
Class: 8E			
			
Participants: 61 			
Club/Group Name: Catalina Radio Club / Radio Society of Tucson			
			
Power Source(s): Generator, Battery, Solar			
			
Power Multiplier: 2X			
			
Bonus Points:			
 100% Emergency power                           800		
 Media Publicity                                100		
 NTS message to ARRL SM/SEC                     100		
 W1AW Field Day Message	                        100		
 Formal NTS messages handled - No.=10	        100		
 Site Visit by invited elected official	        100		
 Site Visit by invited served agency official   100		
 Submitted via the Web	                         50		
 Educational activity	                        100		
Total Bonus Points                             1550		
			
Score Summary:			
QSOs			
 CW                                             629		
 Digital                                          0		
 Phone                                          734		
Total QSO Points                               3984		
Total Bonus Points                             1550		
Final Score                                    5534		
			
Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:			
 QSOs	    CW	Digital	Phone
 160m       0   0       0
 80m        38  0       67
 40m        120 0       39
 20m        281 0       349
 15m        172 0       159
 10m        18  0       75
 6m         0   0       19
 2m         0   0       26
 440MHz     0   0       0
 Other      0   0       0
 Satellite  0   0       0
 GOTA       0   0       0
TOTAL	    629 0       734