FD Highlights
foggie
foggie at dtx.net
Thu Jun 20 05:55:40 EDT 1996
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
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