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The 2024 Flight of the Bumblebees is now History.

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There were 207 Bumblebee Numbers assigned this year.?? Wow!? ??Phil - K4PQC, and I were really pleased from seeing the interest shown in getting out and operating portable in this long standing QRP CW event.?? And we could not have done it without Bruce - WA7BNM generously providing the FOBB auto-logger. ?

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The band conditions made operating QRP CW from portable locations a real challenge everywhere.?? But I guess if we choose to work QRP CW, we like challenges.? Right?

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The weather was a mixed bag, with severe storms in some areas of the country and very high temperatures in other areas. I got well cooked where I was at. ?Some Bumblebees had to revert to becoming home stations due to the weather.? Others had to cut their operations short. At least one Bumblebee confessed to getting quite wet.?? But, assuming that everyone returned home safely, then all is well.

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Be sure and enter your Results and Comments.? Even if you were only able to make a few FOBB Contacts.

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It has been pointed out that pictures of Bumblebee operations have been part of the Flight of the Bumblebees ?tradition.?? I know that I always snap a few pictures of all of my portable operations - maybe most of you routinely do that also.? But we lost the ability to send in pictures of our operations whenever we switched to using 3830Scores.com. ??

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So, we will setup another web page to display the pictures that Bumblebees and Home Stations wish to submit.? It will probably be called '2024 FOBB History', and it will be available on ?

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Send your FOBB photos to:? fobb-pictures@...??? Be sure to include your call sign, name, and location so I can tag your photos properly.?? .

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?I will post them to the web site as time permits.??? Sorry, no prizes or awards for best picture or best location.

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And, while you are waiting for the 2025 Flight of the Bumblebees on July 27, 2025, you can try your hand at the Monthly ARS Spartan Sprint on the First Monday of Each Month.?? That Monthly QRP CW event was also originally intended to promote outdoor operations.? But the evening hours make that difficult to do East of the Mississippi.? So, it has pretty much evolved into everyone operating from indoors. See for Spartan Sprint information and rules. ??

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72,

Jody – K3JZD ?and ?Phil - K4PQC

Adventure Radio Society Trustees