[SCCC] LotW question

Daniel Craig dann6mj at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 12:02:51 EDT 2024


I still remember the first time going to W6BA.  It was for the WWSSB in
'95.  I was only 15 so my parents had to drive me out there.   You guys
just sat me down on 15m and let me do my thing.   Those were some great
learning experiences for a young contester.

73,

Dan N6MJ

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 9:48 AM Michael S. Mitchell W6RW <w6rw at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Hello Steve. Wow! Those calls W6BA/W6ANN bring back some old memories. I
> spent many many hours along with others operating many multi multi dx
> contests at Bill's 29 palms location. One of our operators was a teenager
> named Danny AD6DO who is now N6MJ. It was fun watching him operate back in
> those days!
>
> As a side note, Bill was the original president of the Southern California
> DX Club and made the very first contact on 10 meters from the West Coast to
> the East Coast.
>
> I miss the chats that I used to have with Bill.
>
> 73 es DX de Mike W6RW
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Harrison <k0xp at k0xp.com>
> Sent: Jun 12, 2024 5:32 PM
> To: <sccc at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SCCC] LotW question
>
> Thanks, everyone; I have a number of leads to pursue at my leisure now.
>
> I was planning to operate FD with my local club, the Morongo Basin ARC
> (the trustee of W6BA, the callsign of SCDXC member W6ANN/W6BA back in
> the olden days); however, I just learned that our FD chairman is in the
> hospital with a foot injury and may not be out by then. So our FD will
> likely be cancelled, and I'll have that weekend off  (since I don't do
> digital or voice, and thus have no interest whatsoever in chasing that
> FT4xx guy; but I'm looking forward to all of George Wallner's
> operations!!) 8-D
>
> TNX,
>
> Steve K0XP
>
> Wonder Valley
>
>
> On 6/12/2024 5:13 PM, Dennis Younker NE6I wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > If you view the San Diego DX Club video on YouTube, you can enable Closed
> > Captions. That may help you.
> >
> > 73, Dennis NE6I
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SCCC On Behalf Of Ryan Huggins via SCCC
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 3:36 PM
> > To: Steve Harrison
> > Cc:sccc at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [SCCC] LotW question
> >
> > I do not know of any, but there have been some lengthy emails floating
> > around somewhere from last year/early this year. I did find this youtube
> > video of him talking for about two hours at Quartz Fest in Arizona this
> > year. The auto subtitles seem to be ok so far. It's not the greatest
> > recording though.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH8Xd9u9_pw
> >
> > I also found this one from the San Diego DX Club. This one was done in a
> > room and has powerpoint slides. The audio quality (and thus the auto
> > captions) are likely to be better on it.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdmxeAPmEzM
> >
> > Dick will also be speaking at the Micro Expo on August 31 at Cal State
> > Channel Islands.
> >
> > I did find a PDF that goes into it to a point. It's only 3 pages though,
> so
> > just a sampling of his two-hour presentation that he usually does. I've
> > attached it to this email, which probably will be stripped by the server,
> > but hopefully you will get it directly.
> >
> > If you look on Groups.io for "RATPAC" and search their archives (you may
> > need to be a member) for "Dick Norton" look for the thread entitled "Dick
> > Norton Speaks Out". That is where I got the PDF from and they have the
> text
> > of it in the thread as well.
> >
> > Hopefully those resources will help you. There are also some tools out
> > there that will transcribe a youtube video for you. Just search
> "transcribe
> > youtube video" to find a list of them. I suggest using the indoor one
> from
> > San Diego for this. The other video was outdoors and has some wind noise.
> >
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> > -73
> > Ryan, KI6BTY
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 12th, 2024 at 4:52 AM, Steve Harrison
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a written transcript of what Dick has related available
> >> anywhere?? As a mostly-deaf ham who can no longer understand human
> >> voices very easily (or at all, in the case of my local club repeaters
> >> and almost all SSB conversations), I find I'm way out in the field,
> >> left or right, and almost completely ignored these days simply because
> >> I cannot hear and understand radio or phone speech. Even club meetings
> >> have become virtually completely a waste of my time when I cannot sit
> >> closely enough to the speaker to "hear" or read them easily. It makes
> >> for a very frustrating and lonely existance. This is why I only do CW
> >> operating these days.
> >>
> >> Steve, K0XP
> >>
> >> On 6/12/2024 12:27 AM, Ryan Huggins via SCCC wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Paul,
> >>>
> >>> Their lobbying efforts and the recent wins for the signal rate and HOA
> > antennas were the top two items in my "Why I should stay column". I do
> hope
> > that they can fix their problems and if even half the people who said
> they
> > were done with them after the items Dick Norton brought to light
> actually do
> > leave, I hope that will send the message through "5x9" and changes will
> > happen. I'm happy to come back once the issues are fixed. I hope it
> happens
> > sooner than later.
> >>
> >>
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