Field Day 2023 was once again held at the Johnston Outpost YMCA, and the air-conditioned location was a big success: the club was able to keep all 3 radios in operation for the entire event! As other clubs wound down their operations, operators came to visit our site late at night on Saturday and early Sunday morning, providing welcome support. We managed to bag Maryland a few times on Sunday morning, but the San Joaquin Valley eluded us this year.
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We’ll have more details about our Field Day success in the next newsletter, but for now…here’s a quick report on our contacts. While we still haven’t returned to the glory days of having actual sunspots on a reliable basis, we made 34% more contacts than last year. We got plenty of contacts, including more than 200 at two stations (one VHF, one HF) powered by solar-charged batteries.
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