[VHFcontesting] Good Ambassadors

[John Santillo]

The station was W2LV.  I met "Amish" sitting comfortably under our tarp.
She was a very nice young lady with red hair and a bright smile.  

 

W2LV and the Sussex County Amateur Radio Club wishes her well in her
journey.  

 

 

73,

 

John

N2HMM

 

 

>Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:16:23 -0400

>From: "Walter A. Carrington" <wc at mathmicro.com>

>Subject: [VHFcontesting] Good ambassadors.

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>A young woman thru-hiking the Appalachian trail from Georgia to Maine 

>writes about how she was treated well by a multiop on the Appalachian 

>Trail in the vicinity of the Delaware Water Gap (probably east of DWG).

>Anybody know what station this was?

>"A couple miles in I ran into a bunch of guys at the top of a mountain.

>There was >a tower and the were assembling their own radio tower. They were
very 

>sweet and offered me a seat in the shade under their tarp and a cold 

>pepsi. They told me how they were in a competition, where the winner 

>makes the most contacts with their radios. This team had only five. The 

>team on graylock has dozens and they only ever lost three times, 

>apparently it was a huge deal. These guys have been doing this for 

>longer then I'm old."

>by Amish,  trailjournals.com

> 

>K1CMF June results,

>87 Qs  63 grids, 5481 points.

>There were Es on 6 most of Saturday and almost all of Sunday.  

>Sometimes only 1 or 2 stations were coming through on Es,  sometimes 

>many.  2 meters was dead.

> 

>--Walter, K1CMF

> 

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