By: Steve Kopecky, KF2WA

Well, here we are, on the down side of Field Day, Hurray! Only 341 days, 3 hours, and some odd minutes before we kick off another one, -- but who's counting?

First let me congratulate everyone for an outstanding field day effort this year. My wholehearted thanks to everyone who helped set up on Friday and Saturday. We were actually ready to go BEFORE 2:00 PM this year, a marked departure from last year's schedule. Also, I hope everyone joins me in a special thanks to those who helped in the kitchen this year. Again, an excellent cuisine by our 5-star chefs!

Now - for the rest of the story: we had 79 members and family members sign in over the weekend, a record number! For contacts, we made the following(grand total = 908):

This gave us a claimed score of 2,148 points. We should be looking at another 900 bonus points, for a total score this year of 3,048 points. Not bad, this is less than 200 points below last year's claimed score, (claimed scores are based on contacts only, no bonus points). For 1995 we had a claimed score of 1,965 and for 1996 it was 2,239.

Again I would like to thank everyone for all the time and effort they put in, the camaraderie, the food, and most important of all, the fun. I hope you had as much fun as I did. Now as to next year...