[NCC] Hola

[Nzharps at aol.com]

Well finally made it back from the very hot (85+ everyday) island of Curacao. 
 This years trip was great fun as usual even with less than great (for us 
anyway) band conditions.  Preliminary results are 12k Qso's and about 25m pts.  
More detailed numbers will appear as soon as N8BJQ and WC4E are able to send 
them out.

Check out this interesting web site for those of you that are 75/80m 
enthusiasts:

       <A HREF="http://www.nn.iij4u.or.jp/~mak-oxv/top.htm">http://www.nn.iij4u.or.jp/~mak-oxv/top.htm</A>

Most of this page is in JA, but the picture is worth thousands of words in 
English.  You are looking at a full size 5-el rotary. For size and scale, notice 
the human form walking on the boom. The boom is also used as a rotatable 
dipole on 1.8mhz.  This system apparently went on line this fall.  If you worked 
7J4AAL in ww ssb and wondered why he was so loud, now you know:) This corner is 
wondering who will be the first NCC kid on his block to have one of these 
beauties??

Hope to see you in SS this weekend.

73,
Ron, K8NZ