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Contest Rig of Choice?

Subject: Contest Rig of Choice?
From: popyackl@ers.rl.af.mil (Leonard J Popyack, Jr.)
Date: Wed Jun 29 12:22:46 1994
On Tue, 28 Jun 94 22:33:47 PDT, John Zapisek wrote:

>> [Rick/VE9HF]  I am leaning in favor of a used TS-950 or a new TS-850.
>
>I've used three TS-850's at multi-op efforts in the past year.  Two of
>them have crapped out during the contest.  Not a good track record.
>
>Anybody else have similar or opposite experience with TS-850's?  Three
>is not a very big sample size; it could just be a fluke.  73.  --John/K2MM

Used my 850 for the past four years FD efforts.  Ran the piss out of it
and has never wimpered yet.  

We always seem to kill an ICOM every year (except one year we killed a 
yaesu)
LEN WF2V

>From mraz@maverick.aud.alcatel.com (Kris I. Mraz)  Wed Jun 29 16:41:17 1994
From: mraz@maverick.aud.alcatel.com (Kris I. Mraz) (Kris I. Mraz)
Subject: slow exchanges
Message-ID: <9406291541.AA10685@maverick.aud.alcatel.com>

Chris KU4A says:
> 
> gets corrupted to:
> 
> CQer: CQ Field Day from W4XYZ
> caller: W1XYZ
> CQer: W1XYZ go ahead
> caller: 2A my-state
> CQer: roger 2A KY QSL?
> caller: roger, good luck and have fun
> CQer: CQ Field Day from W4XYZ
> 

Or, the caller who give the exchange on the initial call:

CQer: CQ Field Day from W4XYZ
caller: W1ABC 2A North New Jersey
CQer: W1ABC 2A KY QSL?
caller: roger, good luck and have fun
CQer: QSL, CQ Field Day from W4XYZ


Kris AA5UO
mraz@aud.alcatel.com

>From tardis@atd.mke.ab.com (Bob Citkowski)  Wed Jun 29 05:42:31 1994
From: tardis@atd.mke.ab.com (Bob Citkowski) (Bob Citkowski)
Subject: what i did during field day
Message-ID: <9406291542.AA11923@hammer.mke.ab.com>

just for grins 8-D

we didn't work much phone this year but last year our goofy phonetics were:

need 9 american women

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