[SECC] [Contest] ARRL DX CW

[John T. Laney III]

I will be one of 5 ops in a small M/M with three stations at N4AF in 
NC.  Rick, NQ4I, is not having his usualy M/M this weekend, since he 
will be working.  This gives me an opportunity to fly to Raleigh (thanks 
to Delta Sky Miles) to operate with my old college roommate, Jim Jordan, 
K4QPL.  Jim is a lawyer in Raleigh.  We were roommates 1962-1965 off and 
on at Mercer University in Macon, GA.  We had a Globe Scout, various 
receivers, and also a crystal controlled spy CW rig that we used in our 
room and later at an apartment.  In the dorm, we used the pi net in the 
Scout to load up the bed springs, the window screens, and a short wire 
out the window to another part of the dorm building.  Didn't get out 
well, but could check into the GA State Net (GSN) and play around a bit 
on the CW bands.  Later at the apartment, we had a NCX3 and a base 
loaded WRL vertical with a tapped coil to change bands.  Jim and his 
wife will put me up Thursday night and Jim has invited the local 
contesters to drop by.  Most of them belong to PVRC.  Friday we will 
drive to the N4AF station near the coast.  I will have to operate K3 
rigs and use N1MM logging program. At least, I got a little exposure to 
these at W8JI in CQ 160 CW. 

Jim and I last operated together in the GA QSO Party in May 1968.  Less 
than two weeks later, I flew to Korea for a 13 year assignment in the 
Army JAGC Corps as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate of the Second 
Infantry Division.  I made about 13,000 QSO from there as HL9KQ and in 
the CQ WW DX Contests in 1968 M/S as HL9US.

Hope everyone can be QRV next weekend and have a lot of fun and a lot of 
QSOs. We could have good conditions on 15 and some propagation on 10 
with not bad low band conditions if this week's conditions continue 
through the weekend.  PJ4X will be QRV from the PJ4G shack on Bonaire 
with a bunch of FL guys.  I guess they will be M/2 or M/S.  Probably M/2 
I'd guess. 

Anybody want to talk about going with me  (and possibly KU8E) to PJ4A 
for CQ WPX CW in May?  73, John, K4BAI.