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Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 May 2014 16:48:53 -0500
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But he won't have nearly the QRM that the rest of us will.  What a 
stroke of genius!
Pat, K9JAUAt 02:21 PM 5/26/2014, you wrote:
>Tom will be the only guy standing out in the field, wondering where
>everybody else is.
>
>73, Steve KW3A
>
>On 5/26/2014 3:13 PM, Dave Basden wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > You need to double check the dates of Field Day,--I think they are a
> > week later than you mentioned, but I could be wrong.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Dave, W7OQAt 09:28 AM 5/26/2014, you wrote:
> >> Hey, Steve.
> >>
> >> Congratulations on the CQ WPX totals!!
> >>
> >> As far as I know, you did the best of any of us.
> >>
> >> So, yes, I think we can safely say that your CW contesting skills are
> >> definitely coming along nicely.
> >>
> >> Sorry we didn't cross paths.
> >>
> >> I, too, find contests like these to be a bit more tedious than many of the
> >> usual contests I do.  One thing that always gets me is how the 
> big guns send
> >> their contest exchange so quickly (probably at about 50 words a minute or
> >> so), that people like me need to ask them for a repeat.  As a 
> result, in the
> >> end, I'm not sure how much time that saves any of us.
> >>
> >> Anyway, the contest for me was a fun outing, so now, it's onto 
> the next one.
> >> For me, it will be Field Day on June 21--22.
> >>
> >> At least, with Field Day, I'm not quite so much out of my element.
> >>
> >> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:28 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: My Big Finish in the WPX
> >>
> >> Mike,
> >>
> >> Sorry I didn't cross paths with you, or anyone else from the list.   As
> >> usual, my CW phobia had me   just tinkering around for the first half of
> >> the weekend, but  Saturday night, with about 65 in the log,  I figured I
> >> would hit it a little harder.
> >>
> >> Working around my church schedule on Sunday, I managed to log 505
> >> contacts, 337 mults, and a score just over 463K.    For me this was a
> >> big outing.  I do think my CW contesting skills are (slowly) improving.
> >>
> >> Hope you had fun.  As hard as it is for me to get started in one of these,
> >> once I get  into it, I really enjoy it.
> >>
> >> 73, Steve KW3A
> >>
> >> On 5/25/2014 8:04 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
> >>> I returned home in time to work the last hour of the contest.
> >>>
> >>> My final total, 232 contacts, 173 prefixes, 75,774 points.
> >>>
> >>> Not a bad showing for a contest lite type of operator.
> >>>
> >
> >
> >

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