2024 ARRL Field Day
June 21 was Setup Day
Transmit Day was June 22-23 Noon to Noon
Participants:
David – N7EZQ – 183 QSO’s
Gary – KB7QFE – 132 QSO’s
Janet – KF7NWL – 40 QSO’s
Jeff – KG7CW – 412 CW QSO’s
Bob – W7BOB – 23 QSO’s
Steve – KB7ZPU – Worked GOTA – 18 Dig QSO’s & 9 Ph QSO’s
Stuart – KK7OYI – Worked GOTA – 25 Dig QSO’s and KX7ID – 18 Ph QSO’s
Total from KX7ID operators: 808 QSO’s + GOTA Op’s of 52 = 860 QSO’s
Preliminary RAW Score is 4488
I want to Congratulate Everyone for this Fine Event, Even tho Murphy was Present. LOL.
2024 Idaho QSO Party
Participants:
Jeff – KG7CW – worked CW, made 182 Contacts – Score of: 15,652
Bob – W7BOB – worked SSB/RTTY, made 175 Contacts – Score of: 13,454
Mickey – K7TPH – worked SSB, made 81 Contacts – Score of: 2,268
David – N7EZQ – worked RTTY, made 37 Contacts – Score of: 1,258
Jim – W7TF – worked SSB/CW, made 25 Contacts – Score of: 646
Club TOTALS – Contacts = 500, and a Score of = 33,278
Jeff – KG7CW Contacts: CW = 99, PH = 38, Satellite = 1, Multipliers = 14, Score = 3,304
Bob – W7BOB Contacts: RTTY = 30, PH = 160, Multipliers = 11, Score = 2420
David – N7EZQ Contacts: RTTY = 40, PH = 6, Multipliers = 7, Score = 602
Mickey – K7TPH Contacts: PH = 126, Multipliers = 4, Score 504
Zane – AI7RV Contacts: PH = 74, 2m = 1, Multipliers = 4, Score 300
Jim – W7TF worked with Snake River ARC: CW = 24, PH = 12, QRP
Wow, Look at what our Club Members accomplished during the year of 2023, plus this last week of operation, where the persons uploaded their QSO’s to ARRL LOTW. The points at the end are his accomplishments of making contact with ARRL Staff Members that are worth a lot of points, anywhere from 2 to 300, depending on the rank of the Staff Member. The # on the left is how he placed in the State of Idaho. Next is the overall Ranking in the World. The next # is his ranking in the USA. And then there is his Total # of QSO’s made. In Idaho there was a Total of 268 Members.
I want to Congratulate All those that has Participated by being a member of ARRL and keeping their Logs with Logbook of the World. Our Club produced 3 people that Has Achieved the Great Ranking of 4th, 5th and 6th Place. Just to show what a Club can Achieve.
ID Rank Call Sign Overall Rank Country Rank QSOs Points
4 KG7CW – Jeff 408 263 (USA) 4466 37182
5 W7BOB – Bob 617 412 (USA) 3371 30230
6 N7EZQ – David 648 434 (USA) 4041 29652
40 KX7ID 6431 3994 (USA) 1244 6281
93 KB7QFE – Gary 14930 8588 (USA) 502 2541
105 K7TPH – Mickey 17617 9929 (USA) 311 2024
125 W7TF – Jim 22243 12197 (USA) 217 1413
151 AI7RV – Zane 31137 16195 (USA) 173 728
203 KJ7QEB – Nick 44942 21645 (USA) 65 250
Participants were:
Jeff
QSO’s = 906 Contacts, 155 multipliers for a Raw Score of 455,700.
Jim
QSO’s = 104, QSO PTS = 208, Multipliers = 35, Raw Score = 7,280.
Mickey
QSO’s 66, QSO Pts 132, Multipliers = 38, Raw Score = 5,016.
Gary
QSO’s = 59, QSO Pts = 118, Multipliers = 34, Raw Score = 4,012.
Bob
QSO’s = 300, QSO Pts = 600, Multipliers = 59, Raw Score = 35,400.
5 Participants, Total QSO’s = 1,435 and a Raw Score of 506,408.
Congratulations to Jeff-KG7CW, David – N7EZQ, and Unlicensed Maya.
They made 820 QSO’s with ALL the Multipliers of 85 for a Raw Score of 139,400 in 16 Hrs of Operation at Jeff’s Shack.
They ended up 1st Place Multi Operator High Power for Idaho, and 2nd Place for District 7.
09-02-2023
Roseberry Ice Cream Social
Participants were: Jeff-KG7CW, David-N7EZQ, Jim-W7TF, Bob-W7BOB, Mickey-K7TPH.
June 24-25, 2023
RESULTS
We Did it AGAIN!
Number One for Idaho, over All Categories.
I want to THANK each and Everyone of you that Helped, setup, takedown, and Operate, and All other jobs preformed for this Event.
Idaho Mountain Amateur Radio Society will be at the Osprey Park west side of Lake Cascade approx 3 miles south of the Tamarac Round-About on the east side of the West Mt Rd. Link to site.
Participants were: Jeff Lappin, Zane Lathim, David Karaloff, Jay, Janet, Ken Thomson, Bob Renn, Bob Wagner.
Guests were: Carol Vasel, Eva Vasel, Piper Hochstrasser, Marissa Wilson, Adrianne Fraedrich, Wilona Ellwynn Eld, Joice Eld and Deana Wagner.
Operators were: Jeff-KG7CW, Zane-AI7RV – GOTA, David-N7EZQ, Jay-KC7MS, Janet-KF7NWL, Bob-W7BOB, Bob Renn-KF7JPJ assisted.
Guests that operated were: 3 youths, and 1 adult.
We completed 786 QSO’s on HF and Satellite, and GOTA competed 94 for a TOTAL of 880 QSO’s, with Bonuses our score was over 4850 points. We were 1st place for Idaho last year and I think we will be there again for this year.
ARRL Digital Contest – Participants:
David N7EZQ – QSO’s 490 Score 4684
Jeff KG7CW – QSO’s 305 Score 3215
Bob W7BOB – QSO’s 487 Score 6502
Idaho Qso Party 2022
Participants
Bob Wagner W7BOB 410 QSO’s Score 28,620 Low Power 5th Place
David Karaloff N7EZQ 297 QSO’s Score 18,517 Low Power 7th Place
Jeff Lappin KG7CW 217 QSO’s Score 68,755 QRP 1st Place
Mickey Pillers K7TPH 187 QSO’s Score 8,067 High Power 9th Place
Jim Sample W7TF 56 QSO’s Score 2,226 Low Power 17th Place
DX Phone Mar 4-5, 2023
Participants
KG7CW – Jeff Lappin
W7BOB – Bob Wagner
N7EZQ – David Karaloff
K7TPH – Mickey Pillers
KB7QFE – Gary Harner
2022 Roseberry Ice Cream Social
Hosting the event was: Robert Wagner, Jeff Lappin and David Karaloff. Bob made 45 Digital Contacts using his FT991a and an octopus dipole antenna on 15m & 20m using FT8 method. Jeff made another 10 contacts using his Satellite system. We had about a dozen visitors during the event, so we got the word out to the Public that there is another Ham Club in the area.
2022 ARRL Field Day
Operators & Scores
Bob – W7BOB = 282 QSO’s 97 PH 185 DIG
Jeff – KG7CW = 169 QSO’s 133 CW 19 PH
David – N7EZQ = 113 QSO’s 92 PH 59 DIG
Gary – KB7QFE = 92 QSO’s 92 PH
Nick – KJ7QEB = 1 QSO 1 PH
Totals = 657 QSO’s
Band CW Phone Dig Total
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40 64 97 185 346
20 55 92 59 206
15 9 0 70 79
6 0 0 2 2
SAT 5 19 0 24
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Total 133 208 316 657
KX7ID = Preliminary Total Score: 3,562
RESULTS
There were 320 Entries into the 3A Category, we were 82nd.
There were 43 Idaho Total Entries over All Categories and we were 1st for Idaho.
Our score was 3562 with 657 QSO’s 7 participants.
A Great Job by our new club!
Wagner’s Brunch 03/26/2022, If you missed it, You Really Missed a Good Time.
As a new club we are trying to get out and get involved in events. Below you will see the What Contest, the Date and Who participated in the order of Events. There will be scores listed later as we get the results.
Idaho QSO Party
March 12-13, 2022
Participants were:
Jeff – KG7CW 589 QSO’s score 96,696 = 4th Place in High Power
Gary – KJ7QFE 146 QSO’s score 6,909 = Mixed 5th Place
Mickey – K7TPH 58 QSO’s score 1,392 = 9th Place High Power
David – N7EZQ 36 QSO’s score 387 = Mixed 9th Place
Bob – W7BOB 45 QSO’s score 1,890 = 1st Place QRP
Totals: 874 QSO’s & Score of: 107,274
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North American QSO Party
Rules: 2022 North American QSO Party, RTTY
1800 UTC February 26 to 0600 UTC February 27, 2022
We had two participants:
David – N7EZQ = 5th for Idaho
Bob – W7BOB = 3rd for Idaho
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February 12-13, 2022
2 members participated in this Contest:
David Karaloff – N7EZQ and Bob Wagner – W7BOB
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Winter Field Day
January 29/30, 2022
We had 5 Members participate from their homes:
Mickey Pillers – K7TPH = 12th Placer for Idaho
Gary Harnar – KB7QFE = 5th Place for Idaho
Jeff Lappin – KG7CW = 1st Plase for Idaho
David Karloff – N7EZQ = 3rd Place for Idaho
Bob Wagner – W7BOB = 2nd Place for Idaho
Our First event was the 2021 ARRL November Sweepstakes SSB. Jeff, Hosted the event at his Shack and Mickey and David both participated.
