[WWYC] 10 years ago

[Mikael Larsmark]

Hi Thomas and the rest

Great that you did notice this. Myself I hadn't thought about it. WWYC 
itself was started in November if I remember correctly and I remember in 
those days you (OZ1AA), me and a couple of Finns used to report scores 
to each other during contests we worked and there was a competition 
between us. It was a lot of fun!

Also I remember the article that was written and publish in the CQ 
Contest Magazine about the bunch of young farts we were. Does anybody 
have a pdf or something of that article? I might have it somewhere in 
magazine form but finding something at my place is like finding a needle 
in Fabs b*tt.

Anyhow, happy birthday in advance WWYC!

I'll be playing around in DX mode during CQWW SSB. Was hoping to have 
the complete 20m stack up but "only" one 6el up and I want to do antenna 
work during the days, so I will just play around so we can hopefully do 
CQWW CW seriously.

Mike, SM2WMV (SJ2W)
http://www.sj2w.se

Thomas Andersen wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> Did you realize that WWYC is celebrating it's 10th birthday these
> days? I made a trip down memory lane to try to remember how it all
> started. This is what I found out.
> 
> 10 years ago I was 16 and had just started contesting on the HF bands.
> I didn't know any other young guys interested in contesting until some
> contest in the fall of 1999 where the exchange was the age of the
> operator. I remember being very happy when I worked Dimitar LZ5AZ.
> Dimi gave me 599 15. I just checked my logbook and sure enough there
> is a QSO with LZ5AZ in the 1999 JARTS RTTY contest:
> 
> RK3RWL 1999-10-15 13:25:02 20M RTTY
> UA9CLB 1999-10-16 06:46:00 20M RTTY
> --> LZ5AZ 1999-10-16 06:59:00 20M RTTY <--
> RA4CTR 1999-10-16 07:00:00 20M RTTY
> SV2BZQ 1999-10-16 07:02:00 20M RTTY
> 
> You will notice that the QSO took place on 1999-10-16 which is exactly
> 10 years ago tomorrow!
> 
> After the contest I wrote an email to Dimitar and quickly we also got
> in contact with 9A6XX, YT7AW, SM3WMV and DJ1YFK. The rest is history
> as they say but without the enthusiasm and work of guys such as Hrle
> and Fab WWYC would not be where it is today!
> 
> To celebrate the birthday I will be QRV as OY3AA saturday morning this
> weekend in the 2009 JARTS RTTY contest. Unfortunately another QSO with
> LZ5AZ ten years later will not take place since Dimitar is sadly no
> longer among us.
> 
> 10 years old already! As Fab said, WWYC will soon have to stand for
> "We Were Young Contesters" :-)
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Thomas OZ1AA
> 
> http://www.oz1aa.com
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