KW3 - Wake Island? :] Eeee e e 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 > > >