Hi Contesters....
Taking the advice given in the memo posted by W2UP to visit the article on Ham
Radio in the NY Times, I found this interesting section:
[snip]
Traditional ham radio has hardly disappeared. Practitioners, though, are
mainly the over-40 crowd, people who were bitten by the radio bug well before
the computer and Internet revolutions. Often living on hilltops and operating
4,000-watt transmitters ? the legal maximum ? and towering antennas, these
hams are most active in early evening.
[snip]
I wonder if the author interviewed an Italian contester or one of the
Russians? Maybe it was one of the those 4th class JA's? Or maybe he was just
DXing too close to the EDGE.
And you thought that everything you read in print was true!
:-)
de Doug KR2Q/p/m/2/qrp
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