A few days before the ARRL CW DX Contest, I received a phone call from
Hawaii from yet another member of the King family, Steve WB2Q. Steve is
in the US Air Force and was assigned to Fort Meade, MD (about 15 miles
from W3LPL) for a three year tour beginning the day before the ARRL
CW DX Contest!
Unfortunately, a snow storm (in MD not KH6!) delayed the arrival of his
flight, so he was unable to join us until Saturday. Steve operated on
80 meters with Brian ND3F. My next-door neighbor, Burny WR3E, operated on
80M for only the first 12 hours due to family obligations.
Take a look at our 80M score, and u will see that this member of the
contesting King family is also a pretty good contester!
Band QSOs Mult Primary operators
160M 164 54 WA3WJD AI3M
80M 820 89 ND3F WR3E WB2Q
40M 1136 105 KE3Q KO7V
20M 1745 125 KF3P K3RA
15M 300 92 K3RV W3LPL
10M 30 11 W3LPL
Total 4195 476
Score: 5.95 Million
After the contest I asked Steve if his orders read: "Three year
assignment at W3LPL."
73!
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@sgate.com <---reply address
On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Derek Wills wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 96, "Susan M. King" <ku2q@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
> >For Secret #10 of Kris I. Mraz, please substitute:
> >10. Have a spouse who supports your way of life and
> > helps you do the things that are important to you.
>
> >And who supplies a seemingly unending stream of Cheeze-Its,
> >pasta, beverage of choice to you AND the hoarde who have
> >invaded your home for the weekend. Simply amazing, and
> >indespensible (especially when the subject of #10 is a
> >top-notch op, too...).
>
> Some of you are still missing the point. Susan and her spouse
> were both operating ARRL-CW this weekend on different bands.
>
> While it is often true, it's not always that one person does the
> contest, while the other one is reduced to feeding him or her.
> I've no idea how Susan and Richard are fed during contests...
>
> Derek AA5BT, G3NMX (who did CQWW on his
> 25th wedding anniversary weekend last yr)
> oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu
>
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