Longmont Amateur Radio Club

Activation of Rocky Mountain National Park Jan 2016

January 5th 2016, by Doug KE0SI

First contact was made at 11:37am.  Within 20 minutes he had a pileup that lasted until his radio battery went dead.

Total contacts 87.  26 states.  Band stick dipole antenna and 100 watts got signal reports from 55 to 59+20

Click on the PDF file at the bottom of this page to see results / notes / lessons learned / notes for next time.and more pictures.  

   ARRL 2015 Field DayReport

2015 Field Day was a spectacular event, with 15 operators making 381 contacts.  Thanks guys for your good effort. 

We had three stations on the air much of the time. All our equipment was on battery power. using the batteries from a cell phone tower.