Tom,
This is from the WA7BNM contest calendar:
CQ WW WPX Contest, CW
0000Z, May 30 to 2359Z, May 31
73 Steve KW3A
----- Original Message -----
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone ever heard of CQ100?
> Well good luck, Steve, and can you confirm the dates of the CQ WPX CW
> contest for me?
>
> How about May 23--24?
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Anyone ever heard of CQ100?
>
>
> Tom,
>
> I did work your friends at K8OSE early in the afternoon, around 1625 utc
> on
> 40 meter SSB. I think it was the only station I worked from that county.
> I have worked very little cw lately, and think I may try a cw only
> effort
> next weekend for Florida QP. I won't get much of a score, but hope I
> can
> get the cw receptors in my skull loosened up for WPX at the end of May.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Anyone ever heard of CQ100?
>
>
>> Ahah, Steve, after all of these years, you've finally figured me out!
>>
>> Now, what am I going to do for an encore?
>>
>> As for the MIQP, I have to tell you it was a real bust here.
>>
>> I actually used the occasion to get things set back up out in the RV, and
>> to
>> test the TS480 and Screw-driver antenna set-up.
>>
>> 40 meters was really long, which would certainly explain why you did so
>> well
>> on that band. I don't think I heard a single Michigan station on 40, for
>> the few hours I tried.
>>
>> 75 meters was very noisy during the day-time, but not many stations were
>> heard.
>>
>> The band started to get better later in the afternoon, but by that time,
>> I
>> simply had to quit and get on with other things, like grading exams.
>>
>> Did you work my friends from the Osceola County EOC?
>>
>> They were using the EOC call (K8OSE)?
>>
>> I should think you would have snagged them.
>>
>> My next genuine contest effort probably will have to wait for the CQ WPX
>> CW
>> contest. I think that's Memorial Day week-end, if I'm not mistaken.
>>
>> Take care, Steve, and hang in there!
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>
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