[CQ-Contest] Record-Setters

George Fremin III geoiii at kkn.net
Thu Nov 7 10:38:16 EST 2013


On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:32:56AM +0000, Paul O'Kane wrote:
> In the ARRL Contest Update for November 6, 2013
> N0AX writes -
> 
>   "In the growing ranks of the remotes, this may be
>   a record-setter. Tom K6CT lives in Solaris, Uruguay
>   near Montevideo but logged in to one of the
>   operating positions at K4VV in Virginia this past,
>   weekend for the ARRL CW Sweepstakes. Operating as
>   W4YY for which he is the trustee, he made a clean
>   sweep at a distance of 8,323 km (5,171 miles). Your
>   editor made a QSO with W4YY and had no idea the
>   control operator was far, far away."

That is pretty cool.

And N6TR was operating as VY1EI from his warm shack in Boring, OR.

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George Fremin III
geoiii at kkn.net



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