What a bummer John. My rotator don't work either. But it don't matter cuz
I use wires he he......Try it, they work well stateside.
Dan/W4NTI
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Laney" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
To: "McKay" <amckay@rabun.net>; <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 8:14 AM
Subject: [SECC] Re: plans
> Hi Archie and gang:
>
> I think the op ed piece in NCJ about clubs really applied only to clubs
> that have many more members than we do. For them, to stay in the medium
> club category, they must keep their membership or number of entries
> below a certain number. We don't have that problem (yet).
>
> Sorry to hear of your bronchitis. It certainly will affect a phone
> effort. I'll hope to hear you on the low bands above 7225 or 3850, but
> doubt there will be very much 40-meter activity during the first hours
> of the contest unless the higher bands go dead.
>
> I went home last night and, in light rain, got the 80-meter antenna
> resonating about 3900 at last. I thought I was set for ARRL SS Phone.
> So, I hooked back up the Alpha 78 (I use the AL811H during non-contest
> times so I can work the WARC bands with an amp.) and everything checked
> out OK. Just before the late 4RN net, I turned the tribander with its
> new (rebuilt?) rotator south to call HC4T in Ecuador on 15 CW, but he
> was only working JA stations on that band. I had already worked him on
> 20 CW. After 4RN, I went back to 15 with the thought of working some of
> those many JAs that had been calling and working HC4T and the antenna
> wouldn't turn from South. And it is still stuck there today. I called
> my antenna man, but he has another job to do today and, besides, it is
> raining. So, he will probably change the new rotator out with the old
> one he repaired after replacing it a few weeks ago sometime this week,
> but that won't help SS. I have no other antenna for 20 and 10. I can
> use the 40 meter dipole on 15, but it isn't a very good antenna on
> either 40 or 15. So, I will be in there trying to make contacts after
> court adjourns today, but it won't be the big score or the fun I had
> expected....unless the antenna somehow moves off south. Not much to
> work on 10, 15, and 20 in that direction (unless we get some openings
> for backscatter on those bands, and the SS exchange makes backscatter
> QSOs rather more difficult than the exchange in some other contests).
>
> Hope no one had weather problems. It was a mild passing front here,
> with rain, but no wind or lightning, although they had severe storm
> watches just across the river from us in Alabama.
>
> 73,
>
> John, K4BAI.
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