06/22/07 -- ARRL Field Day.  June is the traditional ARRL field day operation.  Brittany and I worked with the NARC (Nashua Amateur Radio Club).  Brittany and a few Boy & Cub scouts showed up to help in the operations.  We setup and ran the GOTA station on 10 meters, not much activity for the 24 hr period, but Brittany got to see a "real" big setup and run some of the 40 meter operations.  I got to work W1AW on 80 meters, QRP no less!

01/21/07-- ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes.      This was another one of those grand plans contests.  I was actually very interested in this one, especailly after working the winter field day.  That week, I built a 440 and 144 Mhz quagi and a 6 meter quad.  We were all set to go mountain topping.  As it turns out, in New England, they close all the mountain tops.  This is something strange and different from home, you can go wherever you want, nothing is closed for 1 inch of snow.  Anyway, we made our way to Ruggles mine and up some logging road.  We heard a few stations on 144 and on 432, but couldn't work them with our 5 watts.  It was cold holding the beam while standing the the bed of the truck, so after a few hours of that, we gave up and went home.  We didn't work a single station until the next morning when we worked Bill (ne1b) and Ed (k1tr), both local stations.

01/14/07 -- Winter Field day.  We had big plans for this contest.  Setup a tent outside, throw up a new antenna, operate from battery power, and use both the Kenwood and Yeasu rigs.  What really ended up happening is that we stayed home, inside, and just worked the contest.  Again, Brittany ran most of this contest, and we worked the full 24 hours.  She had a huge pileup going most of the time on 20 meters, and worked it like a pro.  We ended up with almost 600 contacts for the field day.  The TS-680 and the LK-500 were smokin hot when she was done.

11/05/06 -- ARRL November Sweepstakes.  I really didn't know that a contest was going on, but tuning around the bands, it was apparent!  Brittany wanted to work the contest.  We compromised.  We would work 100 contacts or 4 hours, whichever came first.  As it turns out, we did 100 contacts in about 4 hours of continuous operation.  Brittany did most of the radio operation while I did the logging and was the official "control operator"  It was actually a lot of fun.