[WVARC] Field Day 1971

[Leigh S. Jones]

That sounds right by my memory... in 68 we did 5A with the wooden
portable quads, 69, 70, and 71 we took #1 in 4A from the Valley
rim and from Contractors.  Then as we began to see lower sunspot
numbers and 15 meters became less of a factor in the summer
months it became more difficult to rack up points.  We did FD from
some other locations -- Mt Gleason above Pasadena, I believe, and
Mt. Pacifico after K6BAG operations abandoned the site.  I was
part of a 2A from Mt Gleason after most of the old 4A guys left the
area.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Musselman WB6UHF" <wb6uhf@arrl.net>
To: "WVARC" <wvarc@kkn.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:02 PM
Subject: [WVARC] Field Day 1971


> Hello All,
>
> The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Amateur Radio Club has posts of
all
> their old bulletins on the web.  Two of those make mention of the
West
> Valley ARC.  Most notably the Nov-Dec 1971 issue at:
>
> http://jplarc.ampr.org/calling/1971/nov/nov-dec71.html
>
> Here is what one article says:
>
> "OFFICIAL FIELD DAY RESULTS
>
> QST, November 1971 listed the final results of the Field Day
exercise. W6VIO
> was entered in the Club category, using four transmitters, with a
maximum
> input power in the 200 w range. As such, we were up against some
pretty
> stiff competition. Two California club stations (West Valley ARC &
Conejo
> Valley ARC) took top honors, with 5964 and 5342 points respectively.
W6VIO
> came in with 1764 points, good for 51st place, out of a total of 95
entries.
> In further analysis of the results, 14 of the winners were from
California,
> attesting to the high degree of activity out here on the west
coast."
>
> It would appear from this, that WVARC won first place for 4A in
1971.  Is
> this correct?
>
> John
>
>
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