[RTTY] Season Greetings

[DickT-W0RAA]

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all of you contesters a Merry 
Christmas & a Happy New Year.  Or, if you prefer, Happy Holidays.

I am in the process of putting up a new Rohn 25G tower to replace my Tristao 
Crankup/tilt-over that came down in a 90 MPH Chinook Wind that came out of 
the mountains here in Colorado Springs.  It destroyed the tower and my TH5DX 
tri-bander.  My Ham V rotor was not damaged.  Fortunately my ARRL insurance 
kicked in and they have sent me a check to cover the replacement costs.  The 
replacement antenna will be a Cushcraft A3S and that will be mounted on a 
Hazer 2.  The tower will only be 30' tall but that's as high as I can go in 
my retirement community.  I'm lucky they allow that.

I won't be ready in time for the RTTY RU, so listen for my puny signal using 
a Butternut HF-9V antenna.  I hope to have things completed in time for the 
WW WPX RTTY in mid February.

Again, all the best to all you guys & gals and I look forward to meeting all 
of you in the upcoming contests again in 2011.

73,

Dick
W0RAA
dickt[at]w0raa.com