2021 OCRA/DFMA Field Day Score – “preserving history…”

Posted on Jun.2021 by Orange County Radio Amateurs, INC

2021 OCRA/DFMA Field Day ARRL Score Totals

Thanks to all who not only worked 2021 Field Day, but went the extra mile in submitting (and correcting) submissions to make sure all our points rolled up as a single OCRA/DFMA Field Day Club submission

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                             from last July's post Field Day participant score submission effort....

The 2021 Field Day results below compiled from your email reports and, cross checking with the ARRL Submission site
indicates all scores have been correctly reported for a combined OCRA/DFMA club score. Your final review is needed
to make sure it is 100% accurate before further distribution. Please point out anything that needs to be corrected.

Copy me on any remaining ARRL Submissions or Corrections to http://field-day.arrl.org/fdentry.php

thanks, Dan KR4UB

ARRL Score Calculation Formula
[CW-CNT x 2 = CW Pts] [SSB-CNT x 1 = SSB Pts] [Digi-CNT x 2 = Digi Pts] ARRL Score = [CW + SSB + Digi Pts Sum) x Pwr_Mult + Bonus Points]

MBR.FCC.ID_	First	Station	Station_Band_Mode	Bonus_Activity	FDay Class	CW QSO	CW Mult	Digi QSO	Digi Mult	SSB QSO	SSB Mult	Pwr Mult	QSO Score	Bonus Score	ARRL Total
N4GF	Roger	Port able	40M	Education, Emerg Pwr, Public Loc, Youth Ops, Web Submit	1, A, B	4	2x					5x	40	370	410
	Roy	Home	80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, CW	Emerg Pwr, Web Submit	1, E	82	2x					5x	820	150	970
WB4OSU	Sherri	Home	40M, 20M, WSJT, PSK31	Emerg Pwr, W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, E			79	2x			5x	790	250	1040
N2XZF	Paul	Home	20M, 10M, SSB	Emerg Pwr, Web Submit	1, E					32	1x	2x	64	150	214
KX4P	John	Home	80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, CW, SSB, WSJT	Web Submit	1, D	239	2x					2x	956	50	1006
WA4PSC	Howard	Home	160M, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, CW	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D	1369	2x					2x	5476	150	5626
N4JQR	J R	Home	80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, 6M, SSB	W1AW Msg	1, D					60	1x	2x	120	50	170
W1KES	Keith	Home	80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, 6M, WSJT	Web Submit	1, D			114	2x			2x	456	50	506
W4KIL	Andy	Home	40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, 6M, WSJT	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D			213	2x			2x	852	150	1002
KR4UB	Dan	Home	40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, WSJT	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D			426	2x			2x	1704	150	1854
N4KW	Pete	Home	All, CW, SSB, not sure about 2023	Web Submit	1, D	356	2x			163	1x	2x	1750	50	1800
N8BR	Bill	Home	80M, 40M, 20M, CW	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D	641	2x					2x	2564	150	2714
KO4DHJ	Ken	Home	80M, 40M, 20M, SSB	Web Submit	1, D					45	1x	2x	90	50	140
AJ2X	Mark	Home	40M, 20M, 15M, SSB	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D					207	1x	2x	414	150	564
KY4HU	Charles	Home	40M, 20M, SSB, WSJT	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D			123	2x	5	1x	2x	502	150	652
K1ZW	Larry	Home	20M, 15M, 10M, SSB	Web Submit	1, D					14	1x	2x	28	50	78
KZ1X	Steve	Home	All, CW, aka W4EZ	Web Submit	1, D	123	2x					2x	492	50	542
KO4TXN	Steve	Home	All, SSB	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D					160	1x	2x	320	150	470
KJ4VWG	Sam	Home	All, SSB	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D			73	2x	81		2x	454	150	604
N1LN	Bruce	Grp_1	Captain, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, CW, aka NC4KW	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, D	1351	2x			486	1x	2x	6376	150	6526
N1YXU	Laurie	Grp_1	All, SSB, aka NC4KW		1, D					486	1x	2x	972
W4BOH	Wilson	Grp_2	Captain, All, CW	Web Submit	2, D	623	2x			37	1x	2x	2566	50	2616
KN4VXB	Aurora	Grp_2	All, SSB, aka W4BOH		2, D					36	1x	2x	72
NA4VY	David	Grp_3	Captain, All, SSB, WSJT	Web Submit	2, D					222	1x	2x	444	50	494
	William	Grp_3	All, 20M, SSB		1, D
K4SAR	Joe	Grp_4	Captain, 80M, 40M, 15M, 10M, SSB	Emerg Pwr, W1AW Msg, Web Submit	1, E					491	1x	2x	982	250	1232
KI4RAN	William	Grp_4	All, SSB		1, D
KD4YJZ	Karen	Grp_5	All, SSB, PSK31		1, E			105
KU4GC	Dee	Grp_7	Captain, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, 10M, SSB, WSJT	W1AW Msg, Web Submit	2, D			309	2x	40	1x	2x	1316	150	1466
KF4PAB	Lenore	Grp_7	aka KU4GC		2, D
KM4MBG	Jack	Grp_7	aka KU4GC		2, D							2x

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Orange County Radio Amateurs & Durham FM Association ARRL Submission Score to date : 35,560

CW QSO Total Count : 5,009, Digi QSO Total Count : 1,850, SSB QSO Total Count : 2,589, Bonus Activity Points : 3,520

31 Hams on 2021 Field Day N1LN Sign Up List, 12 Group Station Participants, 18, Home Stations, 1 Portable Station

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OCRA Membership Meeting – June 10th, 2019

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Original post date June 2019

Dave W4SAR, club president opened the meeting with introductions, the topic for tonight’s meeting being Field Day Planning and call for officer reports. He reported that at the last VE Session on June 8th, 6 candidates were tested with 5 passing the exam earning their license.

Dan, KR4UB, treasurer reported 74 members are current with their dues with 25 members needing renewal. Club treasury balance is in line with ongoing expenses.

Dan also covered the need for attendees who plan to have a Saturday dinner or Sunday breakfast meal from the field day grill to pre-pay for the food to be purchased on their behalf. Costs for some food items have increased as much as 15% from last year and we need your help in keeping the cost per meal low.

Nick, KA1HPM made an announcement of a request he had made to the ARRL via Carl Bowman, Section Manager requesting that an ARRL contest be organized to celebrate the 150th birthday of Hiram Percy Maxim on September 2nd, 2019. The ARRL responded with an alternative option of a Special Event Station be set up to celebrate the event. Nick made the call for volunteers to set up and run such a station, using his call sign KA1 H(iram) P(ercy) M(axim) on September 2nd from 8am to 8pm.

Next, Dave W4SAR began the planning discussion for the 9A class battery powered 5 watt station operation for 2019 OCRA/DFMA Field Day to be held at the Wilson, W4BOH QTH on 3117 Moorefields Road , Hillsborough.

Starting Friday morning at 8am focus will be on tower setup and all other outdoor ground activity to get as much as possible done prior to mid day heat.

Stations and Band Captains are as follows:

CW Stations – Bruce N1LN Captain – 3 stations located inthe MCU covering 80 -10M CW operating antennas onf 3 towers. 2 sets of headphones are on each radio so interested observers can listen in on the operation. Operator slots are available.
80M SSB Station – Steve, W3AHL Captain – located in the W3AHL motorhome using two 75M dipoles. Typically band conditions mean 75M is a 6pm to 6am operation. New operators are welcome.
40/15M SSB Station – Joe, K4SAR Captain – located in an air conditioned trailer using a 3 element 40M wire beam and 3 element 15M beam. Joe needs operators to sign up.
20M SSB Station – Lad, W4ORD Captain – located in an air conditioned trailer using tower mounted team, solar power charged batteries.
10M SSB/Digi Station – Dave, NA4VY Captain – located in the air conditioned “red barn” using a Moxon beam.
40/20M Digi Operation – Dave, W4SAR & Sherri, WB4OSU are co-captains operating PSK-31 and maybe FT-8 located in the handicap accesible garage at the food area.
6M VHF Station – Doug, KA5ETS principle operator also located in the “red barn” building.
Satellite Contact: Dan KR4UB & Bill N8BR will be out on the grounds at the scheduled times for satellite overflights.

Additional operators are needed on all stations.

Bonus Point areas were covered next. Volunteers signed up for the various areas are listed OCRA website home page.

Bruce, N1LN then gave a presentation and demo of the N1MM logging software to be used at field day. The presention is available on the OCRA website home page.

Steve, W3AHL discussed the networked logging setup using the pre loaded and configured laptaps that will be available to each station. All stations need to be ready to participate in the isolated WiFi network setup test at 9AM Saturday morning.

Dan, KR4UB filling in for Keith, W1KES club secretary.

OCRA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes – May 11th, 2021

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ORANGE COUNTY RADIO AMATEURS

Executive Board Meeting – May 11, 2021 – 7:30 pm

Platforms Utilized: Zoom

MEETING CONVENED AT 7:30 PM

OFFICERS PRESENT: W4SAR David, (President); KR4UB Dan, (Treasurer); N8BR Bill, (Secretary); KD4YJZ Karen, (Board Member); N1LN Bruce, (Board Member); W4ORD Ladd, (Vice President); KU4GC Dee, (Board Member); KA1HPM Nick (Board Member) and W4BOH Wilson (Board member)

W4SAR (Dave): Welcome. Call to order. The agenda for this meeting contains a continuation of field day planning, presentation of a report by our treasurer and a commentary on club officer training.

FIELD DAY PLANNING: N1LN (Bruce): The following points were made during this presentation: (1.) We are currently into the 5^th revision of the survey of planned Field Day activities submitted by club members during recent weeks. As was the case last year, twenty-seven members have indicated their intentions to come on-board to represent our club in Field Day this June. (2.) The next step in our planning is to agree on software training for our operators. Bruce has revised his presentation on N1MM software and to be available for individualized instruction to anyone needing help with that platform. (3) W4SAR (David) has agreed to provide instruction on N3FJP contesting software to whomever might be interested in using it, and (4). KR4UB (Dan) has graciously offered his services in helping set up and operating digital modes.

QUARTERLY TREASURER’S REPORT: KR4UB (Dan) provided the Quarterly Treasurer’s report. Data presented therein is managed and archived by Quicken. Since OCRA’s primary source of income is from membership dues, the presentation was tailored to provide a clear picture of the number of membership dues payments it takes to cover the club’s re-occurring fixed costs such as insurance, a permanent mailing address (post office box) needed to ensure timely receipt of IRS correspondence, insurance invoices, etc and the safe deposit box for storage of the club’s key documents. Significant fund expenditures for repeater maintenance and discretionary spending such as the RF filters purchased for Field Day were also highlighted.

This and future treasurer quarterly report formats will be a look back over a rolling past 12 month income/expense period for comparison to the club meeting monthly membership trend reports for easy comparison of the balance of income and expense.

Membership turn-over was also discussed. During the past year with Covid-19, and no face to face meetings possible, the number of new members joining the club has reached a record high and exceeded the number of memberships expiring. Initial club contact by new applicants was largely through the club website. Very positive feedback has been received on the use of the Zoom video conferencing during nets, club meetings, special interest gatherings (HamPiE) to provide the opportunity for new members to get to know other members in the club and get their questions and assistance needs met.

ANNUAL BOARD MEMBER TRAINING: KR4UB (Dan) The following information URL links were sent to the board membership for the annual board education guidance in carrying out their respective duties and responsibilities.

From the Business Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association Guidebook for Board of Directors of North Carolina Nonprofit Corporations
From the NEO Law Group recognized by the American Bar Association Journal for their work with non-profit organizations.
- Duties of the President and/or Chair of the Board
- Duties of the Treasurer of a Nonprofit Corporation

MEETING ADJOURNMENT: 9:24 PM

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OCRA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes – April 13, 2021

Posted on Apr.2021 by Orange County Radio Amateurs, INC

ORANGE COUNTY RADIO AMATEURS

Board of Directors Meeting – April 13, 2021 – 7:30 pm

Platforms Utilized: Zoom.

MEETING CONVENED AT 7:30 PM

OFFICERS PRESENT: W4SAR David, (President); KR4UB Dan, (Treasurer); N8BR Bill, (Secretary); KD4YJZ Karen, (Board Member); N1LN Bruce, (Board Member); W4ORD Ladd, (Vice President); KU4GC Dee, (Board Member); KA1HPM Nick (Board Member) and W4BOH Wilson (Board member)

W4SAR (Dave): Welcome. Call to order. The agenda for this meeting is to consider the most recent draft of our proposed revision of the club’s repeater code of conduct and to continue our discussion of field day plans.

KR4UB (Dan): Moved that the revised Code of Conduct for OCRA Repeaters be approved and adopted by The OCRA Board of Directors.

The motion was passed unanimously.

W4SAR (David) led a spirited discussion about this year’s field day operation. A statement to the club outlining the board’s recommendations will be forthcoming.

Meeting adjourned at 9:12 PM

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2021 OCRA/DFMA Field Day Score – “preserving history…”

2021 OCRA/DFMA Field Day ARRL Score Totals

Thanks to all who not only worked 2021 Field Day, but went the extra mile in submitting (and correcting) submissions to make sure all our points rolled up as a single OCRA/DFMA Field Day Club submission

ARRL Score Calculation Formula
[CW-CNT x 2 = CW Pts] [SSB-CNT x 1 = SSB Pts] [Digi-CNT x 2 = Digi Pts] ARRL Score = [CW + SSB + Digi Pts Sum) x Pwr_Mult + Bonus Points]

OCRA Membership Meeting – June 10th, 2019

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OCRA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes – May 11th, 2021

OCRA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes – April 13, 2021

2021 OCRA/DFMA Field Day ARRL Score Totals

Thanks to all who not only worked 2021 Field Day, but went the extra mile in submitting (and correcting) submissions to make sure all our points rolled up as a single OCRA/DFMA Field Day Club submission

ARRL Score Calculation Formula [CW-CNT x 2 = CW Pts] [SSB-CNT x 1 = SSB Pts] [Digi-CNT x 2 = Digi Pts] ARRL Score = [CW + SSB + Digi Pts Sum) x Pwr_Mult + Bonus Points]

ARRL Score Calculation Formula
[CW-CNT x 2 = CW Pts] [SSB-CNT x 1 = SSB Pts] [Digi-CNT x 2 = Digi Pts] ARRL Score = [CW + SSB + Digi Pts Sum) x Pwr_Mult + Bonus Points]