Hello all SECCers. Good luck in CQP. Thought the message below from
K6VVA sent after the CQP practice session last night might be of
interest, particularly the photos. I doubt my XYL would have approved
of them, hi. Look forward to hearing you all in CQP this weekend. 73,
John, K4BAI.
Hi, John:
I was ultra-QLF tonight, and VERY surprised when you called me on 80m,
'cuz only 100w via a 50ft length of coax into the house which connected
to another 150ft of coax to my Windom.
Hope 80m is this good on Saturday Night, 'cuz I *should* have 800w and
be up at 1,350ft AMSL with a downhill sloping shot to the U.S. I'll be
interested to know if you notice any difference in my signal compared to
normal.
161,
Rick-VVA
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:19:24 -0700
> To: nccc at contesting.com
> From: Eric Hilding <dx35 at hilding.com>
> Subject: Locust CQP-Mobile Pix
> Cc: k6xx at k6xx.com
>
> I just added a couple of pix of the Locus CQP-Mobile where I operated
in the driveway tonight:
>
> http://www.k6vva.com/cqp2005
>
> Besides getting eaten by a multitude of bugs, no rig control, and not
getting an amp set up in time, my apologies to K6XX, KF6T and a few
others for extreme QLF. I had just reconfigured all my X-Keys and
discovered some "bugs" there as well. Since the tiny trailer is only
about 4.5ft high inside, I need to get some heavy padding for my head in
case I forget and stand up to scratch, etc. ;-(
>
> With no rig control, K6XX got a "worked before" (Dupe) message 'cuz I
forgot to manually change bands in WriteLog, which was configured to
send SBEN, so yet another Klutz-O moment K6XX had to endure.
Sorrrrrrry, OM!
>
> THANK GOD for these "Practice" sessions right before the real deal.
>
> 73 & KB to all in CQP 2005,
>
> Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ... off to SBEN tomorrow night!
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