Hi Michael and the BVARC crew, 20 M was the $$ band for MSWE for the Cavalla and Stewart. We logged over 720 Q's in a very casual operation mode. The cabanas at Ft Travis made for great radio room operations. No sunburn
The gostbusters came out to explore the inner gun bunkers Saturday night and invited some of the BVARC crew to join them They never did find the sprit of Marconi with exception of the the contacts in the KK5W log. Friday and Saturday night total menu we served up hamburgers, racks of ribs, T-bone's, link sausage with beans, camp beans, yellow rice and seasoned green beans for the sides. The brownies made for a good dessert. With a few on site donations did make for a good grocery list. Lunch was subways and or ribs and chips. Sunday breakfast was coffee, large kolches, and doughnuts. Some of the BVARC crew went to the Big Kahuna bar and grill while others hung in for overnight camping with a can adult beverage or two. At the Crystal Palace resort was a large open pool party that went into late evening ( not a BVARC party but invintation was given to us that stayed at the motel )....Oh yah...back to the event...We had a need for more operators as only had a total of 21 show up for KK5W event and few of them were full time operators but all were full time having fun.We wish you could have stopped by in the evening after the N5E shut down. Tomorrow I will count up the ships contacted in the KK5W log and think / hope we have enough for the 15+ ship cert from NJ2BB. We even managed to keep the event under budget. More details to follow. K5EWJ Cookie put on a great event as MSWE chairman. 73 Bill WS5H ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Wrenn via BVARC To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [BVARC] How did the MSW turn out..? I can report from the N5E operation at the tall ship Elissa. We started Saturday morning with a 20m, a 17m, a 10m, a 2m SSB and a 6m station setup. 17m and 20m were our best bands. I made a few contacts on 10m in the late morning, but by lunch the bad was dead and it never did come back to life. We made over 400 Q's on Saturday. On Sunday we exchanged the 10m station for 40m which allowed us to cover 40, 15 and 10. Unfortunately, all three of those bands were dead the entire time that we were out there. 17 and 20 were very difficult in the morning and nearly impossible by afternoon. We began closing down the stations at about 130p. By 3p the entire operation was packed up. This is the exact opposite of last year where we suffered a CME on Saturday, but Sunday had great conditions. All in all, we had a great time. We had great weather. It was a lot of fun. And we played radio all weekend. Seven Three, Michael - K5WRN http://www.qrz.com/db/K5WRN On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Howard Bingham via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: My 10 m di-pole simply aimed the wrong way & too low to pick up anything, did hear several members calling KK5W on the 94 repeater Saturday morning & early afternoon, but did not catch any replies.. Will be interesting to see the results by band and how the number of QSO's compare with past years. 73 Howard Bingham KE5APJ -- _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3955/7644 - Release Date: 06/08/14
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