FD Highlights

[foggie]

Here are some of my observations on both my local club effort and my own.

1)  Noone else around here knows what CONTEST means. :) CW is twice the point va
lue
       but they want to give the beam to a SSB station after I had held a freq f
or
       over an hour. Then the trap dipole I hook up to is a better dummy load th
an
       antenna. 1 more hour yields only 5 Q's on 40 meters.

2)  Have a good plan, and a backup, and a backup to the backup. I had planned on
 
       running a solid contest effort during FD with the local club. I was ....
       dismayed to find they used commercial power, did not take it serious, and
       never planned on submitting logs. Ended up having to cobble together an e
ffort
       from my back yard.

3)  FD is a contest. I think personally it is one of the best ones to initiate n
ew
       contesters. I have been out of radio for over 10 years since I joined the
 army
       and went overseas 10 years ago. once I returned last year I began to get 
       reinterested and finally got off my behind and got the ticket back just i
n
       time for WPX. Finally got enough rig to actually run a freq in time for F
D.
       There was some interest generated so maybe some of the locals will start
       contesting. Not a good thing as most of them are single and dont have a f
amily
       to support in addition to contesting so I will probably be blown off the 
       charts in coming contests. :)

4) ya gots ta have a beam. All I have at home are wires, and I could tell the
       difference. I am putting up a 30 foot tower and 3el tribander as soon as 
I
       can find the other 2 sections of tower. (30 foot plus mast is about all I
 can
       get away with in military housing unfortunately)


As always, have fun, and see you in the next contest.

Al - KK5ZX
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>From kr2j at ix.netcom.com (Robert E. Naumann)  Mon Jun 24 13:07:03 1996
From: kr2j at ix.netcom.com (Robert E. Naumann) (Robert E. Naumann)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:07:03 -0500
Subject: Mendelsohn to ARRL Board
Message-ID: <01BB619C.67FDCF60 at dfw-tx12-12.ix.netcom.com>

>>I have gotten a VERY interesting
e-mail from somebody who found Mendelsohn,  who is "only"
Advanced Class,  operating for unusual DX in the Extra
Class section of 20M!  With lots of details.<<

Please get your facts straight.

The following is from the QRZ CD January 1996.

The "E" after the Licn: date stands for Extra.


WA2DHF  STEPHEN A MENDELSOHN                  
        318 NEW MILFORD AVE                   Born: 8/5/44
        DUMONT, NJ  07628                     Licn: 9/22/92 E
                                              Expn: 9/22/02