KW3 - Wake Island?  :]

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73

David W Wood 

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 10:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: contesting

Mike,

Glad you enjoyed it.   No matter how much time, effort, or money some 
people put into it, it's still just a game.

I guess in the olden days people had to tune up everything, and even run 
outside to turn the antenna via the Armstrong method.  Times have sure 
changed.

I think you will enjoy the WPX.  Everybody works everybody, so you are 
  not limited to working DX.   Also your VO1 prefix is not very common, 
and prefixes count as mults.  I checked my last few WPX SSB logs and in 
over 2,000 QSO's, not a single VO1. No KW3's either, which is the main 
reason I took this call.
On 3/2/2014 4:01 PM, Michael Ryan wrote:
> Steve:=20
>
> TNX for the scout out but unfortunately, I pretty much had to focus on 1 =
> band because of the 2 tune ups of both the 102 and 811h.=20
> Things were very crowded and doing a double tune up, actually 3 if you =
> include the 2 stage tune up for the amp, only to find things too crowded =
> else where, were a little pointless.=20
> All I had to do was tune things up for 40M in the morning and stand
pat.=20=
>
> A solid state/amp combo would have been nice where you could simply jump =
> bands. Even a tube amp and solid state exciter combo would have been =
> good.=20
> On the upside of it all, my QRM fighting ability was 2ND to none, even =
> pulled out 3 QRPs running 50, 10 and 5 watts respectfully.=20
> I even had to slug back a little cause I don't approve of the large =
> splits that occur. The way I see it, if the big European DX guns wanna =
> work stateside, then they should go up into your band plan to do it, not =
> transmit on 7.095 and listen on 7.288. LOL=20
> So I did transmit on a big guns transmitting freq and drove him up the =
> band. LOL Ah the friendly competition. LOL=20
>
> Mike=20
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