[CQ-Contest] Ah, youth!

[Vitor Santos]

Well take care about I will talk !!

I love the old guys !! hi hi hi

Not using callsigns with a lot of them in the
contests - just : "Hi Dick, 5911"; Hello Rusty
"5911"; "Brian you are 5911", etc etc etc...

And yeap - I don't have any recorder at my
station, sorry... Thanks God, I am not a winner...

Well - I AM WINNER - a "friends winner"...

See you next contest

-PY2NY-

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PY2NY Vitor Luis Aidar dos Santos
http://military-jeep-brasil.blogspot.com.br/


2017-03-09 11:38 GMT-03:00 Bob Epstein K8IA via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com>:

> Those of you that want to hear a excellent interview with Frank W3LPL,
> check this out;
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> http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/w3lpl
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> Plus, many other interviews of well known contesters on QSO Today. Check
> out the entire list:
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> https://tinyurl.com/j9pkv7w
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> 73, Bob K8IA
> Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: donovanf <donovanf at starpower.net>
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>; pvrc reflector <
> pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 9, 2017 6:45 am
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Ah, youth!
>
> Hi Art,
>
>
> I often think about my contest and DXing Elmers and how much of
> my life experience I owe to their kindness and generosity.
>
>
> I was introduced to ham radio through AM short wave listening on
> my S-38D receiver and quickly discovered local hams working the
> world on 10 meter AM during the peak of Solar Cycle 19. As an
> eleven and twelve year old I soon met local DXers including:
>
>
> W1AWE (he always sent his call as W1AW E) who started serious
> CW DXing in the mid-1920s,
>
>
> W1HJB, a very serious 10 meter AM DXer who used a 3 element
> 10 meter Yagi on the roof of his three story home, turned manually
> by an automobile steering on the wall of his shack. He used
> pre-1950s equipment that was fine tuned for excellent operation
> on 10 meters.
>
>
> W1ZBZ a 10 and 15 meter AM DXer who had two (!) home made
> 70 foot rotating towers, a 75A-3 and a Globe King 500. I always
> dreamed of someday building at least two rotating towers...
>
>
> W1WKO, another serious AM DXer not far from my home.
>
>
> W1BCR, an AM DXer who specialized in working only VKs on
> 20 meters every morning with his Collins S-Line and V-beam over
> salt water, sloping from the top of a tall waterfront bluff to a pair
> of tall wooden poles many hundreds of feet out into a salt water bay.
>
>
> As a twelve year-old I was introduced to the Providence Radio
> Association W1OP one of the oldest continuously active amateur
> radio clubs in the U.S. I attended the full 24 hours of their
> 1959 Field Day just before I was licensed as a Novice. Two of
> my strongest memories are the new KWM-1 transceiver and
> 2 element quad used by the SSB operators and the Viking II,
> NC-300 and Lazy-H used by the CW operators. I was hooked!
>
>
> Soon after I met W1BIL (later W1DK) an honor roll CW DXer
> who got me my first job as a 17 year old at WJAR-TV. Gene
> used a 75A-3 and home made single-813 kilowatt amplifier.
>
>
> Then I met W1YRC, another serious DXer, who got me my first
> engineering job at Raytheon Submarine Signal after college.
>
>
> My first assignment afterAir Force Officer Training School found
> me working directly for PVRC member W3GN. My multi-multi
> mentor W4BVV's office was one floor directly below mine.
> Some of Tom's AB-105 towers l ive-on at W3LPL, sadly he died
> just before they were installed.
>
>
> My story doesn't end there, my life has been deeply enriched by
> countless friendships with contesters and DXers over nearly
> sixty years.
>
>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Art Boyars" <artboyars at gmail.com>
> To: "CQ-Contest Reflector" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 1:31:52 AM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Ah, youth!
>
> Here's a thought I hope you will find uplifting.
>
> One of the emotional/psychological rewards I get when I'm contesting:
>
> I fell like I am as young as when I started... and so are you.
>
> So many of the memories are fresh -- my first Field Day (as part of a
> club's three-Novice 15M CW crew); learning how from the Big Guns in
> college; CD Parties; SS guest op at some good (for then!) stations; MM DX
> contests at W4BVV (SK) and W3LPL Crownsville.
>
> Who ARE these grey-hairs I see in photos in NCJ and on the WWW? Certainly
> not the guys >> I << work in the contest.
>
> 73, Art K3KU
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