[Fwd: Re: Sept Contest de VE3AX]

[Brian McCarthy]

All,

I sent a quick message to Peter, VE3AX, based on his note to the VHF
reflector which is also below. It should be self-explanatory.

Sounds like we were at the south edge of the opening.

Cheers,
Brian
NX9O

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Sept Contest de VE3AX
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:30:17 -0400
From: 222WAS7 <ve3ax@icom.ca>
Organization: VE3ONT
To: Brian McCarthy <rfacres@akorn.net>
References: <3B9CE37C.5F10D914@icom.ca> <3B9D6B7C.82AC7490@akorn.net>

Brian:

Another brain fart!  I was full of them today.  Yes, _W_4NH was logged,
not N4NH.  Next time I should read a little closer for typos before
sending.  Spent time correcting typos and misspelled words but not
callsigns/gridsquares!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

73

Peter
VE3AX

Brian McCarthy wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I really hope you typo'ed your message. N4NH was really W4NH I believe. We
> never worked N4NH and we should have heard them.
> 
> Just let me know.
> 
> Brian McCarthy
> NX9O
> Secretary and Trustee, W4NH - Fourlanders Contest Team, Inc.
> http://w4nh.org
> 
> 222WAS7 wrote:
> 
> > Wasn't that fun!  Well, at least for the nor'easters I guess.  I can
> > appreciate the complaints from the midwest about the lack of activity
> > without any 6m propagation but...... remember June!!!!!
> >
> > Things started off here about normal for September, except a rather
> > stationary cold front well west of here kept T-storms popping up both
> > Saturday and Sunday afternoon and evening.  Not surprisingly activity
> > from W8 and W9 land seemed spotty at best as I am sure those guys were
> > unplugging and plugging back in all weekend.  That high stuck over the
> > east coast had brought us a bit of tropo Thursday night and Friday am
> > (wrkd EM95 on 1296 - tnx Dex!) but moved on by Friday night and left us
> > with nothing in the way of enhancement until it moved up shore and
> > kicked back a bit after dark Sunday night.  Managed to get in on quite a
> > bit of the fun to the east although most of the grids were already
> > worked by that time.  There were lots of "extra" qso's in the log Sunday
> > night though.  It was pretty neat to work K1ZZ in FN31 on 2m and 432
> > with just his FT-817!
> >
> > Best DX south to the Smokies was N4NH in EM85 on the bottom 4 bands.
> > Best west were several W9's in EN52 and EN53.  Best east - why K1WHS,
> > En43, of course, on all 5 bands I had.  Even 1296 was easy, and that was
> > before the tropo settled in.  Great station Dave and company! Best DX
> > north was my lot line (ok not quite - but FN05 on one band only wasn't
> > much better)  Nice to get RI and DE in the log on 144/222/432 too -
> > those states are rarely heard here during contests, even though they are
> > not that far away.
> >
> > QRM was fierce, especially Sunday night, and I got a complaint about
> > "being heard aross the band"(2m) from a local.  My apologies if in my
> > excitement at the prospect of breaking 200K I started screaming into the
> > mike.  Gains were NOT turned up, amps are always under-driven (to
> > preserve my 8877's-too expensive to replace often!), but I'll admit I
> > WAS yelling into the mic.  I turned off the processor for the last 4
> > hours, and stopped yelling (well, almost!).
> >
> > Final tally was a best ever, but not a Canadian record as I fell 6k
> > short of VE3ASO's overall winning single-op score of ten or so years
> > ago.  Maybe next year!
> >
> > Hope you had fun, and remember - in the big scheme of things, no one
> > other than another ham will remember whether you won a radio contest or
> > not.  For the most part you are competing against yourself only.  Do it
> > for fun, and self accomplishment.
> >
> > 50 Mhz  118 Q's in 46 grids
> > 144 Mhz 222 Q's in 59 grids
> > 222 Mhz 100 Q's in 53 grids
> > 432 Mhz 128 Q's in 54 grids
> > 1296 Mhz 33 Q's in 26 grids.
> >
> > Preliminary score = 213,010
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Peter Shilton
> > VE3AX
> > FN02cw
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