Hi Steve!

Wow, that's impressive, especially 160 from your angle. My RTTY is out of
practice, but would love to do something like that sometime. 

Before I was willing to try the remote thing, I only wanted assurance that
CW was possible, hi hi. Anyone can talk. 

Just have to stop mouldating the pillow at those net times, hi hi.

73,.
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Tuesday, 2 June 2015 9:44 a.m.
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CW (was RE: My CQ WPX Total

Dave,

I must be tri-lingual.  I was lucky enough to work the K1N  group on all
3 modes, including 160 CW, which was pretty nice.

Hope to hear you sometime on the Handi-ham thing, or one of the Friday night
echolink nets.

73, Steve KW3A

On 6/1/2015 4:59 PM, Dave Allen wrote:
> Hi Steve!
>
> Enjoying CW is definitely an important step. No longer is it necessary 
> with no code firmly in place. Evil it ain't because the advantages 
> outweigh the hastles every time. These advantages include but are not 
> limited to less demanding requirements in hardware and the greater 
> convenience of the chosen thirst quencher.
>
> In the excellent CQ article last month detailing the K1N DX-pedition, 
> they said one of the requirements for ops was to be trilingual. I was 
> thinking about where the island is, and thinking yeah, English Spanish 
> and French, but no. SSB, CW and RTTY is what it meant, hi hi.
>
> 73,
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 June 2015 3:38 a.m.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: My CQ WPX Total
>
> Tom,
>
> Well it was fine for what it was, but I have a long way to go.  If 
> Lloyd had run power and had a full weekend,  he  would have done well over
> 1,000 QSO's.    Some of our CW friends from across the pond like David
> and Terry  could have outdone  my total in  just a couple of hours.
>
> I have made some progress in the past year and a half since I decided to
> stop looking at CW as a necessary evil and try and enjoy it.   With a
> little progress each year, I'm on my way to being a world class CW 
> contest op  in about 2036.
>
> Hope you can get the antenna up.     Beside FD, there is also NAQP SSB
> and CW this summer.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>
> On 6/1/2015 11:13 AM, Tom Behler wrote:
>> Congrats on the great CW effort, Steve!
>>
>> I'm  not sure, but I think you made the most contacts of anyone who 
>> has reported so far.
>>
>> I'm now looking forward to Field Day.  If I can do FD from out here 
>> at the RV, I think I will stick mainly to CW.
>>
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
>> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 8:49 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: My CQ WPX Total
>>
>> Sounds like everyone had fun this weekend.  I put 340 in the log, 
>> with
>> 258 mults and score of 233K.  Worked a few on 160, but all within 500
>> miles.   Was surprised how many Europeans came back to me on80 meters
>> Saturday night.
>>
>> One of these days I'm going to get over this CW phobia.  I have big 
>> plans for each CW contest, but always get some cold feet on Friday 
>> night.  I end up just piddling around  until sometime Saturday night,
>> then really get into it.    Turns out I always have fun.   If I could
>> just hit it hard from the get - go,  I could do a lot better.
>>
>> Good job on the QRP Lloyd.   I know it can be challenging, but also fun.
>>      I usually run FD home from a battery QRP.   Last year I worked
>> Finland, which was pretty cool.   Maybe do the same for FD this year.
>>
>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>
>>
>> On 5/31/2015 11:22 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
>>> Grea
>>
>> t going, Mike.
>>>
>>> Will be curious about how Lloyd, Steve, and anyone else who did the 
>>> contest fared.
>>>
>>> Still no antenna up out here at the camp site, yet, but hopefully, 
>>> that problem will be addressed well before Field Day.
>>>
>>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Mike Duke, K5XU
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 8:03 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: My CQ WPX Total
>>>
>>> 296 contacts, 240 prefixes, 167,520 points.
>>>
>>> I heard someone work W3IUU last night, but Lloyd was in hunt and 
>>> pounce mode like me, so we missed each other.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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