ARRL Field Day 2019 – W3AO

This was my first experience of Field Day in America, and it’s certainly a very different event to Region 1 Field Day in the UK.

I was invited to join the team of W3AO by Dan K2YWE who was leading the 80m CW station, though I also belong to the Columbia ARA who provided a lot of support to the W3AO effort and ran the Get On The Air Station and the Satellite station for extra points towards the overall score.

W3AO are in the process of setting records in each category and in 2019 they were 14A, the only participant with 14 radios on the air across HF, VHF and all modes. That’s quite a feat.

Primarily I was 80M CW, which involved some overnight operating, typically in the early hours. I also spent some time filling a gap on 15m CW.

Claimed results:

CallSign Used : W3AO
Operator(s) : W3AO
Operator Category : MULTI-OP
Assisted Category : ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : MIXED+DIG
Default Exchange : 14A MDC

Band	Mode	QSOs	Pts	Pt/Q
1.8	CW	49	98	2
1.8	LSB	25	25	1
3.5	CW	597	1194	2
3.5	FT8	173	346	2
3.5	LSB	937	937	1
7	CW	1059	2118	2
7	FT8	348	696	2
7	LSB	1622	1622	1
14	CW	1060	2120	2
14	FT8	330	660	2
14	PSK	3	6	2
14	RTTY	1	2	2
14	USB	1587	1587	1
21	CW	422	844	2
21	FT8	213	426	2
21	USB	679	679	1
28	CW	158	316	2
28	USB	226	226	1
50	CW	12	24	2
50	FT8	67	134	2
50	USB	20	20	1
144	FT8	1	2	2
144	USB	2	2	1
Total	Both	9591	14084	1.5

Call Sign Used : K3CUJ
Operator(s) : VARIOUS
Operator Category : MULTI-OP
Assisted Category : ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : MIXED+DIG
Default Exchange : 14A MDC

Band	Mode	QSOs	Pts	Pt/Q
3.5	LSB	101	101	1
7	LSB	309	309	1
14	USB	29	29	1
Total	Both	439	439	1