Mind if we brag?

I guess you can consider this a guest post - good friend Dave KD2FSI posted this to the South Plainfield Amateur Radio Club Facebook page, and I'm posting it here as well, because there's an important message here.

2024 Field Day Results:

The ARRL Field Day Results are now out in a CSV file format. This file format can be imported to an Excel spreadsheet and sorted to compare the results by categories, sections and so forth.

We know from the results published in December’s QST that SPARC came in 3rd out of 5 in the 3A-Battery category, but I was interested in seeing how we did overall compared to all categories and sections.

Looking at all categories In the NNJ section, SPARC ranked 2nd out of 47 entries.

I then combined all categories in the NNJ section with all categories in the SNJ section where we ranked 5th out of 77 total New Jersey entries.

But what I always think is impressive, is where SPARC ranks when compared to total of all categories participating nationwide.

And this year, SPARC ranked 216th out of 4319 total Field Day entries! This puts SPARC’s score in the top 5% of all the submitted logs that participated in the 2024 Field Day.

What I think is even more impressive is that SPARC can complete this well against well equipped, big money stations. Some of which are using as many as 13 transceivers running 100 watts out to crank-up towers with beam antennas sitting on top. While SPARC uses just 3 battery powered transceiver running 5 watts out to wire antennas.

Congratulations to SPARC and everyone involved, for a considerable effort with a great outcome. 

73, Dave KD2FSI

Thanks, Dave, for your research. And I'm posting this here because it's important for all of you out there to know - if we can do this, so can you! We are not super special, by any means, we're just a bunch of Hams who like to play radio and enjoy a challenge.

QRP is NOT a handicap, and does not have to take a backseat to anyone! Don't let anyone ever tell you different!

72 de Larry W2LJ

QRP - When you care to send the very least!