[NCC] WRTC Report

[Dan Kovatch]

My strategy is to get on and run in the morning and take a break every hour 
or so and tune the bands for the WRTC guys. Not going to use the cluster as 
I figure any buzzing pileup will be them. The prop for us will be iffy on 
20-10 but maybe afternoon backscatter (know anyone with a really LARGE 10 
meter array?) I'm going to try to work lots of guys and the 1x1s too. Hope 
to spend much time on the radio even though it is supposed to be gorgeous 
outside.

I'm going to have the score board up on a second monitor but don't know if 
that will help but will be fun to watch.

-----Original Message----- 
From: tleek8az
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 5:18 PM
To: North Coast Contesters
Subject: Re: [NCC] WRTC Report

Yo Dan!

I'm planning to do the same.  Any thoughts about strategy?  I'm thinking
that Saturday morning will likely be a waste -- those guys will be on 20 &
15 (10 if it opens to EU) and will be running a sh#t load of EU.   I
suspect that the pileups will be enormous --  and that with only
backscatter signals, us midwest guys will be too weak to be successful.

Other than catching somebody early on, any other thoughts for strategy?


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Dan Kovatch <w8car at buckeye-express.com>
wrote:

> Sorry to hr the news Jim, Glad you got to go. I'll be on this weekend and
> am going to try to work as many  band/mode WRTC stations as I can! Good
> luck and have fun!
>
> DAn W8CAR
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jim K8MR via NCC
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 11:27 PM
> To: mrrc at contesting.com ; ncc at contesting.com
> Subject: [NCC] WRTC Report
>
>
>
>
> Well, I'm almost to WRTC. Which is good considering that at one point
> Sunday night I did not know if I'd be here at all.
>
> Last Friday we got a call from the assisted living place where my mother
> lives, that she had fallen and been taken to the emergency room. She ended
> up diagnosed with a fractured pelvis. I saw her on Saturday and she was
> doing OK for her situation. But then on Sunday various things started
> happening, ending with a call from the hospital at 10:30pm that the staff
> hospitalist thought she needed emergency surgery to check out what was
> going on. The surgeon was indeed called in, but after examining her and 
> her
> files decided it was best not to operate. But for the several hours I 
> could
> see myself spending the weekend hanging around a hospital or worse.
>
> Fortunately she is doing better, the doctors have settled on a wait and
> watch approach to the complicating issues, and my sister from Florida flew
> up and is doing the local family help. Wanting to see her before we left
> Sharon, we got a much later start of our trip to NJ on Monday (where our
> daughter and grandson live), and spent? extra time there this morning
> before leaving to get Linda to her cousin's place on Cape Cod where she
> will be spending the week. I'm there tonight, and will be off to WRTC land
> in the morning.
>
> Thanks to all for the good wishes. And thanks to all of you that supported
> WRTC to make it able to do all this. Solar conditions look great, the
> weather forecasts sound ideal, and we'll be looking for all of you in the
> pileups, and hope to work you many times, along with all those infinite
> piles of Europeans that one has to endure from W1.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim? K8MR
>
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