[CQ-Contest] 1978 Novice Roundup?

[Dave Edmonds]

HI Jim,

Thanks for sharing your very interesting NR experience. We're giving away a
BBQ dinner for our upcoming contest...NR was giving away a transmitter. And
thanks for the TQP contact yesterday.

73s
Dave WN4AFP

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Jim George <n3bb at mindspring.com> wrote:

> My novice ticket came in March, 1958 and I recall vividly the NR of that
> year as KN8JPV in West Virginia. Without going back and checking, it seemed
> that it lasted one or two weeks. I remember working on it on and on and on.
> And I also must have done well since I won a Johnson (Ranger?) 50 Watt
> CW-only transmitter. Since it was CW only and I was infatuated with getting
> on SSB, I sold it.
>
> Again, thorough a major fog, a guy in Rhode Island, KN1LPL, was active as
> well. He ended up as a "somewhat well known" ham in W3 land with the same
> suffix. We all competed in that NR.
>
> Jim N3BB
>
> At 08:45 PM 9/21/2017 -0400, Dave Thompson wrote:
>
>> You guys are youngsters.  I got my novice in May 1957 after taking the
>> test in Feb 1957 and I upgraded to Conditional in Early 1958. My first rig
>> was a DX-35 and S-40B receiver. I realized the S-40B was Ok on 40 but
>> working stations on 15 you had to tune for them when you turned it over. I
>> found very early that my CW operating could not keep up with K5IIN and
>> K5QNF (now W2RF) so I concentrated on phone (AM phone that is).
>>
>> My first contest try was operating from a local who had a 3 el 15 meter
>> beam
>> at 45 feet, a Viking Ranger, and a 75A4.  Spent 2 hours and made a grand
>> total of 39 Q's in the 1958 CQ WW Phone. My station finally was complete in
>> early November and my first real effort was the ARRL Phone SS. Got tired of
>> flipping a switch to transmit and was far behind my competitor after the
>> first weekend with just over 380 QSO's,  The traditional wisdom was 70% of
>> the QSOs were made the first weekend. I ignored that wisdom and finished
>> with
>> over 800 QSO's and 3rd Nationally on phone. My station was a HQ-110
>> receiver, home brew 6146 exciter, W6SAI audio driver, and a 4-400A amp cut
>> back to 150 watts INPUT (not output) and certified by two officers of the
>> local radio club with one being the ARRL Vice Director. I used a brand new
>> Gonset Tri-Bander on a 18 foot boom on a 50 foot telephone pole. I was 14
>> at the time.
>>
>> My dad and I figured out how to install a push to talk for the D-104 for
>> the 1959 ARRL Phone SS and I finished with 972 QSOs and Top phone score.
>> back then the SS was two weekends and you either operated CW or Phone but
>> not both.  I noticed several SSB stations doing well and when I had to
>> borrow a 32S1 to work ZM7DA for a new one we decided to add SSB so we built
>> the Heath SB-10. Finally went SSB on Jan 1st 1960.
>>
>> SSB with VOX was easy and adding the HC-10 to the receiver was another
>> big step. My dad liked CW so it helped him too.
>>
>> Health reasons stopped my active competitive operating in 2009.  I now
>> concentrate on being the DXAC for the Southeastern ARRL Division.  I do get
>> on to pass out a few QSOs so don't be surprised if I call in during a
>> contest. I hope more of the calls listed in the 1978 Novice Round up are
>> shown with the current calls. I work with NN1N on DXCC matters.
>>
>> 73 es sorry for the band width  Dave K4JRB (K5MDX from 1957 to May 1973).
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com>
>> >Sent: Sep 19, 2017 11:12 PM
>> >To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> >Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 1978 Novice Roundup?
>> >
>> >WD9DCL == NN1N
>> >WD4AHZ(SK)
>> >
>> >On 09/19/2017 05:06 PM, Dave Edmonds wrote:
>> >> There were 700 players in the 1978 Novice Roundup. I finished first in
>> >> South Carolina and 62nd place in the US. I'm curious to know if any
>> y'all
>> >> who beat me are still contesting....
>> >>
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