[NCC] WRTC Report

[tleek8az]

Word is, those guys are on the air right now -- testing out their stations.
 (No 1x1 calls though.)   Should be good propogation check.

I'll be on tomorrow morning, but not expecting to work much -- even on 20m.
 Big backscatter signal will be nothing compared to the screaming EU
pileups -- and those guys most likely won't be working split -- hard to her
them through all the 5kw EU guys.  (Besides, we're same zone, same
continent -- big point disadvantage to working us NA guys.)

But tomorrow night will be better  Thinking there might even be some 2d
radio 10m stuff -- I have a feeling that the guys with the best rates will
have the smallest pileups.

Lots of interesting strategy for this one......



On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Dan Kovatch <w8car at buckeye-express.com>
wrote:

> 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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