would that have been around birch and little birch?? braxton county
wv john wej
On 11/24/2011 5:47 PM, Gedking@aol.com wrote:
> Great reply Rick
> I fondly remember my novice days at 6-7 wpm in my first contest. I had a
> XTal as close to the bottem of the 15 Mtr. novice band I dared to go and my
> slow CQ was answered by a lot of contest stations. and my speed slowly
> began to pick up. I worked most of the major contests mostly on 15 meters
> with
> my 5 el Gothem beam I added 10 ft to the 20 ft boom "30 Ft" and made the
> spacing better. I hung on to my novice ticket with the goal of DXCC but when
> my 2 years were almost I had only 85 worked and abt. 78 confirmed, But I
> had WAS, WAC, and WPNX #56 They are my proudest Awards!! I then went to
> Detroit and came back with My Advanced. My old beat up pickup never got
> below 5
> ft all the way back to BirchRun,!!!!
> ED K8OT
>
>
>
> In a message dated 11/24/2011 12:05:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> k6xt@k6xt.com writes:
>
> Great advice Rick. In my post I should have added something about
> eradicating every nonessential dit from the exchange.
>
> 73 Art K6XT~~
> Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
>
>
> On 11/24/2011 9:35 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
>> The biggest problem with working slow speed stations in
>> the ARRL 160 is that I leave the frequency "unattended"
>> for too long, and risk having an east coast station
>> fire up his CQ machine. To mitigate this, the slow
>> speed station should send the minimum number of characters:
>> "5NN SV". Please don't send QSL, 73, BK, etc. Please
>> don't wait several seconds before coming back to me.
>> Be prepared for me to send "TU" as soon as I hear your
>> section. If you can't copy my call at my CQ speed,
>> send "CALL?". Otherwise, I will send your exchange slow
>> but assume you managed to copy my call despite the high
>> speed. If sending with a straight key, please err on
>> the high side of the 3:1 dash to dot ratio, and please
>> leave appropriate spaces between characters and between
>> RST and section. Conditions for QRS stations tend to
>> be friendlier higher in the band and later in the contest.
>>
>> CU on the air next weekend when we "Occupy 160 meters", hi.
>>
>> Rick N6RK
>>
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