Rob, ND3A did the most operating, I drove, set-up and did
general tech support! We planned on six sites, but only made
5: got good sleep, though!
Grid 6M:Q/grid 2M:Q/grid 220:Q/grid 432:Q/grid 1296:Q/grid
FN10 12/7 19/8 5/5 11/5 5/3
FN00 10/8 7/5 1/1 2/2 1/1
FM09 14/7 11/5 4/2 7/4 3/2
FM08 23/7 14/5 3/2 9/4 3/2
FM18 9/4 14/6 3/2 7/3 4/2
Totals 210 QSOs, 586 pts., 105 mults=61,530 claimed
My goal is usually 1 QSO per mile. We were about .5!
We found that it takes longer to setup with 2, about twice as long
as 1! Murphy got us once, a tree caught our "stack" while driving
and repairs cost us 90 minutes Sunday morn. The WX was very
beautiful: worth the drive!
GPS invalidated my favorite FM18 site. We found another just a
few hundred feet up the road, but I must apologize to the many who
have contacted me from there: I was just over the border in FM08,
but you can't tell from the map! The road leaving the new site crosses
private land, and we had to turn back: the extra time cost us the
chance to operate from a sixth site...
Activity was sparse except for 6M e-skip. Our 6M set-up was
marginal, and we should have known better! We did work several
West Coast stations, midwest and Florida, which was fun.
See you in August and September. We will modify our strategy
when the new scoring rules take effect, but who knows what we
will try!!
>From Robert Penneys <penneys@brahms.udel.edu> Mon Jul 17 12:46:57 1995
From: Robert Penneys <penneys@brahms.udel.edu> (Robert Penneys)
Subject: Skwint
Message-ID: <199507171146.HAA17224@brahms.udel.edu>
Well, was it an authorized non-contest, or what? Where are the on-line
attorneys?
I have wanted to get my kids on this for the last year, but I usually work
on Saturday at yon ham radio store, and the kids are not really interested.
They are the reason I got back in this hobby anyway, having first been a ham
in fifth grade, then off for almost thirty years.
Seeing this did not conflict with with everyone's schedules, I invited the
kids to have any friends join them...or else I would import a kid! It worked,
they managed to give the phonetic alphabet a token once-over, and spent part
of an hour on radio. Their attention level rivaled mine, and they did a lot
of very funny and heretical things at the mike ("Three operators now standing
by for your call") and made me very proud.
Anyway, pseudonym ELMO, age 12, color RED, 17 Qs, 7 colors.
First time I turned on a radio at home since April, and a storm had just
smashed down half the driven element on the triband-plus-40, and everything
you touched was hot.....just like when I was a kid!!
Tnx all and let's keep'em for Sunday PM or evening.
Bob
Bob Penneys, WN3K Internet: penneys@brahms.udel.edu
Frankford Radio Club N.E.R.D.S.
>From Tony Brock-Fisher <fisher@hp-and.an.hp.com> Mon Jul 17 14:45:46 1995
From: Tony Brock-Fisher <fisher@hp-and.an.hp.com> (Tony Brock-Fisher)
Subject: Blank pages in latest NCJ
Message-ID: <9507171345.AA22558@hp-and.an.hp.com>
Dave KM3T writes:
"Did anyone else notice white (blank) pages in the latest NCJ.
?"
...I think the SSTV'ers have gone too far this time!
-Tony, K1KP, fisher@hp-and.an.hp.com
>From alan@ES.COM (Alan Brubaker) Mon Jul 17 14:58:19 1995
From: alan@ES.COM (Alan Brubaker) (Alan Brubaker)
Subject: AP Sprint and Kids' Sprint/Squint...
Message-ID: <199507171358.HAA03876@greely.corp.ES.COM>
AP Sprint - K6XO, Single operator, Low power, 20 meters single band/got up too
late for 40...
16 QSOs, 11 Multipliers = 176 Claimed score.
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Kids' sprint/squint...
This was Darryl's (our #1 son) first contest. He was reluctant and less than
thrilled
about it, but he was willing to try it out for awhile. Maybe we have set the
record for
the oldest "kid". He was sending 24, but he is really 26, nearly 27. The
world's oldest
teenager, I say. Big Beavis and Butthead fan - need I say more? Oh, the score?
K6XO Darryl 24 Purple Utah
13 QSOs, 6 Colors = 78 Time on: 1 hour.
Sounds like the kids had fun.
Alan, K6XO
alan@es.com
Batteries not included - some assembly required...
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