Congrats, Hal!!
Noticed you are shooting with the "proper" gear, too!!
VY 73 es GUD DX!
Rich Arland, K7SZ
Nikon user since 1968
Cogito Ergo CQ! (I Think Therefore I Ham!)
(With apologies to Rene Descartes, 1596 to 1650)
> From: halken@comcast.net
> To: n4hh@yahoo.com; sedxc@contesting.com; secc@contesting.com; nfarl@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:40:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: [SEDXC] [SECC] N4GG Wins!
>
> Thanks for the PR Don.
>
> Yep, just about fell on the floor over that one, and it has gotten
> better...
>
> I still don't have my August QST BTW, so I have not seen the picture -
> which I sent in on a lark a few months ago and forgot all about.
> Apparently most of the pictures entered every year are of the form
> "Tower and yagi at sunset." I like pictures like that - wish I had a
> tower and yagi I could look at, at sunset...Hi, Hi. So, they found my
> entry a little out of the ordinary.
>
> Came home from vacation to find a nice letter from ARRL telling me I had
> won and a check for $100. You could have knocked me over with a feather
> - I had forgotten I entered and didn't realize there was a monetary
> prize. Then yesterday, I got an email from ARRL offering me another
> $200 for the right to put the picture into the 2010/2011 ARRL calendar.
> I probably have close to $2K in the project, but money was never an
> issue one way or the other - it was a life's experience so it never had
> a budget. The fact that its earned $300 back is VERY unexpected! ($300
> won't pay for the Nikon I took that picture with either, BTW...)
>
> I hope the Woodstock P.O. delivers the august QST one of these days...
> Hal N4GG
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: secc-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Don Nesbitt
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:34 PM
> To: sedxc@contesting.com; secc@contesting.com; nfarl@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [SECC] N4GG Wins!
>
> Hey Kids - take a look at page 124 of the August issue of QST - you will
> see "Blue Lightning" at work! Not only did Hal create a thing of beauty
> but he's a first class photographer as well! GG - congratulations - HH
>
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