[SEDXC] [SECC] N4GG Wins!
Rich Arland
k7sz at live.com
Fri Jul 16 16:22:14 PDT 2010
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 at comcast.net
> To: n4hh at yahoo.com; sedxc at contesting.com; secc at contesting.com; nfarl at 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 at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Don Nesbitt
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:34 PM
> To: sedxc at contesting.com; secc at contesting.com; nfarl at 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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