[SECC] SECC Mtg

[Gary McConville]

Everytime I headed out to the SECC meeting, I ended up signing up a new SEDXC member (four in a row), and ended up missing the whole thing.  Can someone send a brief on the meeting???



--- On Sun, 6/7/09, John T. Laney III <k4bai at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> From: John T. Laney III <k4bai at worldnet.att.net>
> Subject: Re: [SECC] SECC Mtg
> To: "secc" <secc at contesting.com>, "Ku8e" <ku8e at bellsouth.net>
> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 11:37 AM
> Thanks, Ralph. And thanks for the AQP
> QSOs for WX4RUS.  The 40M band was 
> long during the day, but got short in the early
> evening.  Your signal on 
> both bands was 599 plus!  Sorry to miss the meeting,
> but the experience 
> with the Russell County Amateur Radio Club at the Russell
> County EOC was 
> a good one.  We put up a temporary G5RV for the CW
> station and it worked 
> well.  The SSB station used a permanently installed
> B&W folded dipole, 
> which generally acted like a dummy load up in the sky
> (which is what I 
> have always heard about these antennas).  I think it
> demonstrated for 
> the Russell County guys that they need to replace that
> antenna (or maybe 
> use it just for 75 where it works half-way at least) and
> put up 
> something else for the other bands.  Although the plan
> had been for my 
> rig to be CW only, since the SSB guys were having trouble
> making 
> contacts, after new CW QSOs got scare, I went to 40 phone
> and made about 
> 120 QSOs in an hour or a little more and then allowed a
> newly licensed 
> YL or XYL operator make 5 or 6 QSOs, maybe her first on HF
> and certainly 
> her first in a contest.  We then lost the frequency to
> another AL 
> station, since she hadn't learned not to leave much silence
> on the air 
> when running.  But, it was nice to see Vanessa get
> pumped up for HF 
> QSOs.  Band conditons were pretty bad during the day,
> but improved in 
> the late afternoon and were quite good at night.  We
> worked DL3DXX on 
> 20, 40, and 80, plus others on 40, including DL3IAC,
> PA3ARM, UA3AGW, C6, 
> WP4L, and others, as well as most states. By memory now, we
> missed on my 
> station (where we had about 525 QSOs) VT, ME, RI, HI, UT,
> ND.  We worked 
> only VE3 and VE9 in Canada.  I will have to work with
> the logs quite a 
> bit to get them ready for submission and to come up with a
> claimed score 
> for 3830.  One of the computers was one hour fast for
> most of the 
> contest (it must have automatically added an hour to GMT at
> the old time 
> that Daylight came in) and one of the laptops didn't have
> the AQP module 
> for NA on it at all.  The one that did (the "CW"
> station computer has 
> some errors that need to be corrected.
> 
> More later.  73, John, K4BAI.
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