Hi Derek: My XYL and I were married on CQWW weekend in 1974. She knew it.
She picked the date because neither Georgia, Georgia Tech, nor Auburn had
home football games that Saturday. I only got to operate the first twelve
hours or so of that one. We arrived in Jamaica for our honeymoon while the
contest was still on. I had the telephone number of my buddies K4SHB (now
N4TO) and W4DQS (now W4QM) where they were operating 6Y5BF, but I had the
good sense not to call them when we arrived. Since that time, I have missed
most of our anniversaries and most Thanksgivings due to a trip to Curacao,
Haiti, Dominica, or Barbados for CQWW CW. And she doesn't complain a lot.
But she doesn't really like (most) hams or (most) ham events. I consider
myself very lucky at that. 73, John, K4BAI/8P9HT. P.S. She went with me to
Curacao in 1979 for a M/M operation as PJ2CC and has refused to go on any ham
trip since. (I thought "we" had a very good time in Curacao that year!)
Derek Wills wrote:
> >>You see, my XYL would not see the humor in my doing two ham
> >>radio weekends in a row, and one of them being on a holiday
> >>weekend. Scott said that he was pretty much in the same boat,
> >>except that he was doing the Dayton thing.
>
> You guys need to trade in your spouses! I spent our 25th and 30th
> wedding anniversaries noodling around in CQWW-cw, I have to remind
> my wife that it's our aniversary (if I remember). First things first!
>
> And no, she doesn't have a sister -
>
> Derek aa5bt
>
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>From ve6nap@ve6nap.com" <ve6nap@ve6nap.com Wed Apr 18 14:51:50 2001
From: ve6nap@ve6nap.com" <ve6nap@ve6nap.com (Gerald Caouette)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Does Dayton hurt the WPX CW Contest?
Message-ID: <01C0C7DC.6DCA9760.ve6nap@telusplanet.net>
Bill
depends on how comited you are to contesting and the hobby
I intend to attend Dayton and Do the contest at the VE6SV station
look for us in the Multi single Class
best
Regards
Gerald Caouette
9116 - 79 street
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
T6C 2R4
ve6nap@ve6nap.com
http://www.ve6nap.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Fisher W4AN [SMTP:w4an@contesting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:57 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Does Dayton hurt the WPX CW Contest?
I was just talking to Scott (KA9FOX) about Dayton and was telling him I
probably wasn't coming because I have plans for WPX CW. You see, my XYL
would not see the humor in my doing two ham radio weekends in a row, and
one of them being on a holiday weekend. Scott said that he was pretty
much in the same boat, except that he was doing the Dayton thing.
So I'm just wondering... Has the Dayton Hamvention move to the weekend
before WPX CW hurt the contest attendance? Is anyone else missing the WPX
who might have otherwise operated because of Dayton?
Just curious. Not proposing anything be changed, so calm down. The
Russians will be there either way... thank goodness.
73
Bill
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