[CQ-Contest] Texas QSO Party

[TOMK5RC at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/29/2003 10:33:05 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
k5iid at earthlink.net writes:


> Out of 363 QSOs, 261 were mobiles.
> Watch out CA, FL, PA...the Texans are on the 
> march!
> 

I doubt that you will see very many mobiles in this weekend's CQP, a state 
dominated by mountains. You see, their highway department chose to build most of 
the roads in the valleys BETWEEN the mountains. Obviously they were not hams.

When I first moved to Nevada six years ago, K7BV and I did try to replicate 
the TQP by going mobile for CQP. He and I are pioneers of the Great Armadillo 
Runs and hoped to continue our race from county to county in Northern CA. HAH! 
What an exercise in futility, trying to operate from valley floors in mountain 
ranges, then, spending hours winding up mountain roads at 25MPH. Not exactly 
the pedal-to-the-metal we were used to in TX.

What you will see is lots of activity from every County this weekend. Me, I 
am going to operate from home, 20 miles from the CA border in another exercise 
in masochism to capture a bottle of wine.

Tom, K5RC
aka W7RN
Virginia City NV