[CQ-Contest] Observations of a young ham

[Jim Brown]

There are two, but they fill up in about an hour when the available 
rooms are released on a given day at 10 am pdst. :)

There are other good hotels in town and rooms are available, but they're 
not  within walking distance.

73, Jim

On Fri,12/23/2016 9:47 AM, Stephen Bloom wrote:
> K ...Think I'll do it ...gonna be a tight one ..cuz I'm off to 4X on April
> 25th.  Is there a preferred hotel, something like the Crowne Plaza in
> Dayton?
>
> 73
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
> Brown
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:03 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Observations of a young ham
>
> On Thu,12/22/2016 9:46 AM, Stephen Bloom wrote:
>> I don't know the lay of the land at Visalia in terms of how tightly
>> scheduled it is, and/or how easy it is to set things up on the fly,
>> but, if feasible, perhaps we bring this discussion there, and figure
>> out an organizational way forward.
> Visalia is pretty loose. There are many scheduled presentations on Saturday,
> a DX track and a Contesting track on Friday. Plenty of loose contact time in
> the evenings. Try to arrive on Thursday, leave Sunday after the breakfast
> talk.
>
> Visalia attracts lots of contesters, especially from NCCC, SCCC, and the
> Arizona Outlaws. There are several big stations in NCCC territory that
> regularly host a serious multi-op, including N6RO, K6LRG, W6YX, W7RN, and
> WC6H. W6NV has a mountaintop site that's set up for multi. K6TU and K6TD
> have a mountaintop site that's primarily designed for remote operation.
> W6JZH, K6TD, and NW6P often turn over their stations to guest operators.
> K6XX is set up for multi, but Bob is an WRTC competitor, so rarely hosts a
> multi, but he's mentored some younger hams who have become active
> contesters. I host guests from time to time. N6RO, K6LRG, and W7RN are all
> set up for remote operation. N6BV has no station at home, but often operates
> one of N6RO's stations remotely during a M/M.
> N7MH has no station at home, but is the primary operator at W6YX.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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