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SpaceX Postpones Falcon Heavy Launch Due to High Winds
The next launch attempt will be Thursday, April 11.
A Thursday launch for Falcon Heavy would occur at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT), with weather forecasts currently predicting a 90% chance of good weather, according to the 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Glad everyone has had a chance to review the actual results and form an assessment of the group’s achievements. Seems to me, better CW and multiplier success are helpful factors, while having more positions is a lesser factor. We have trouble getting CW operators for regular Field Day.
Congrats to all of the participating members.
Please remember the organizers are volunteers, too. For some perspective, a crew of computer savvy people (a couple of them from this club) got together to develop a better scoring system for the regional and state finals for Odyssey of the Mind, much more complex than this and it took them several years to get it squared away.
Tom
AB1NSRow Labels Count of CALL Max of CALCULATED 1I 38 13263 1O 135 14989 2I 45 20033 2O 45 35136 3I 26 35710 3O 32 31319 4I 14 25475 4O 12 49623 5I 4 13732 5O 3 15876 6I 1 6344 6O 1 71637 7O 1 4527 8I 1 32578 😯 1 6358 Grand Total 359 71637 I’d say N1FD placed 2nd overall, and the top score was from a 6O station from Oregon.  I ran a pivot table from the data that I scraped from their website.
Not too shabby for our first time entering the contest.
I’ll attach the spreadsheet here if someone wants to verify my pivot tables are constructed correctly.
Attached is my spreadsheet with the Pivot Tables completed.
We came in third overall. (when you include “H” stations)
What a ridiculously bad table of data! How can they screw up a darn spreadsheet so bad that you can’t sort the values?
Those WFD guys impress me a little less everytime I look at them.
I mean seriously… they even have some stations with NEGATIVE scores! What does that mean? Those stations need to give back some points???
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Sandy Point Campsite[/caption]Good Afternoon,
The public hearing for HB417 has been scheduled for Tuesday, February 5th at 10:45 AM in Room 302 of the Legislative Office Building. I urge you to contact the committee with your thoughts on the bill. You can either attend in person or send an e-mail to the committee at:[email protected]
(Please cut and paste the address into to your email)You do not necessarily have to submit your remarks by the 5th, since the committee will be working on the bill at a later meeting or meetings. So, you have a week or so to act.
I can assure you that the committee will consider your remarks. They are very diligent in this regard. In addition, your email becomes part of the committee’s public record. The committee will likely not take any action on the bill until a later date, when they will review the comments and deal with any amendments before voting of final action as either Ought to Pass, Ought to pass with amendment, Interim Study or Inexpedient to Legislate.
I have a dental appointment the morning of the 5th and I am uncertain if I can make it to Concord in time to testify. If the hearings head of the bill run over their allotted times, then I might make it.
If you do attend the hearing, PLEASE SIGN IN, on the sheet at the table inside the entry to the hearing room. You do not have to personally testify, but you can and should indicate whether to support or oppose the bill. If you do decide to testify, keep your remarks brief and on point.
Keep in mind that the ARRL Board (sic) is reviewing its position on the bill that has been languishing in Congress. They may decide to withdraw the bill because of the concerns raised by the membership over the usefulness of the language of the bill.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me [email protected] or phone at 494-2579.
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Tom Mahon
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