[WWYC] Contest

Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:10:12 +0100

Hello Matt!

Welcome to WWYC and you did ok for sure in the arrl ssb. I made 
about 170 contacts in my first contest, the time I tried contest for 
the first time but it was not serious though. Later I got invited to 
SM3PZG to work a few hours in the WPX SSB and what a blast! I 
was working with GREAT Force 12 antennas, Alpha 91b and a 
FT1000MP.......after that experince I started doing contests more 
serious. I won SOAB LP in Sweden in the 1998 CQWW SSB 
contest from home and made some more serious efforts from 
SK3LH and 2.7Meg in CQWW SSB last year so it always starts 
with small numbers. 
Contesting from Sweden is pretty much the same as from the 
states I guess except that we in the northern Sweden get really 
BIG problems when the aurora appears..........

Keep up the good work Matt and you will for sure be invited to 
some big contest stations if you just stay active and work ALOT of 
contests........!!! 

Bye and Welcome!

73 // Mike (SM3WMV // SM3W)
Keep up the hamspirit and enjoy hamradio contesting!!

On 10 Mar 00, at 16:36, KB9UWU@aol.com wrote:

> Hey all,
> I am one of the new members.  Name here is Matt and I live in Decatur, IL.  
> My current call sign is KB9UWU...will change soon :)
> I LOVE contesting, but here at my home, I dont have a good contest station 
> set up.
> 
> ARRL CQDX SSB -  I set up my triband beam at a friends house on a 50' mast.  
> We were just playing around... used the call K9HGX in the contest.  We 
> decided to go for mutli op two transmitter (LP).  I made 150 q's on 10 
> meters, and 30 or so on 20 meters.  Our other op was KB9JLL...he was on 15 
> for a few hours racking up contacts with a hustler vertical.  
> For just tuning around the band working stations, I think we did OK for just 
> a little joke contest station :)
> our equipment was:
> Rigs: Icom 730 and Kenwood 130S
> Ant:  Mosley TA33J up about 40' and a Hustler ground mounted vertical
> 
> Well, enough from me... I am sure you will all hear me on 10 meters a lot and 
> 80 meter CW...
> 
> 73 to all,
> Matt
> KB9UWU
> 
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