[Mldxcc] ARRL DX Contest - CW This Weekend

[Gary Johnson]

Sure hope 80 is good... I'm SOSB on 80 at N6RO. At least there's always 
the Japanese CW Army :-)

Gary NA6O


On 2/15/2017 3:16 PM, jerryolive at comcast.net wrote:
> I'll get the Buddipole up before the weekend to add an 80m vertical 
> radiator to the antenna selection. I think the low bands have 
> opportunity this weekend.
>
> Jerry KD6WKY
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device
>
> ------ Original message------
> *From: *Robert Hess via Mldxcc
> *Date: *Wed, Feb 15, 2017 13:31
> *To: *MLDXCC Lode;
> *Cc: *
> *Subject:*[Mldxcc] ARRL DX Contest - CW This Weekend
>
> Hi there, DX'ers and Contesters,
>
> We're a contest club and a DX club, so it stands to reason that we 
> participate in the ARRL DX Contest.
>
> We can't win this one without a few serious dxpeditions, but we can 
> try to up our ranking from last year.  In the past three years, the 
> Louisiana Contest Club has beat us every year.  We came the closest to 
> beating them last year.  Perhaps that's the goal we should set for 
> ourselves in 2017.  Note that Louisiana's log count has gone down each 
> year.
>
> So, we set a goal to beat Louisiana and then toast our Shirl, who I 
> know will be rooting for us from above.....right?
>
> The club competition is based on the total score for both the CW 
> weekend and the Phone weekend.  CW is THIS weekend.  Phone is the 
> weekend of March 4/5.
>
> Here's where we stood over the past 4 years:
>
> 2016, Medium Club, 16th Place, 7.4M Points, 26 logs (Louisiana had 6 logs)
> 2015, Medium Club, 30th Place, 4.6M Points, 23 logs (Louisiana had 7 logs)
> 2014, Medium Club, 25th place, 4.9M Points, 23 logs (Louisiana had 9 logs)
> 2013, Medium Club, 23rd Place, 5.5M Points, 25 logs (Louisiana had 11 
> logs)
>
> Bob
> W1RH
>
> ps: I had to tear down my entire station yesterday in order to get to 
> fix the water heater and keep my wife happy on Valentines day.  For 
> some reason, she doesn't like cold showers.  It's probably going to 
> take me most of Saturday to get it all back together but I'll do my 
> best to make some points for the club.
>
>
>
>
>
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