Congratulations to you both. Wish I could have finished the Centennial stations but I wan not able. Glad some of our members were able too. I'll have to live vicariously through you until the next centennial (o:
Seven Three, Michael - K5WRN http://www.qrz.com/db/K5WRN On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Scott Medbury via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > Very good Bruce! > > I thought that I did well considering I was barefoot using my TS440 and a > homebrew fan dipole that is only at about 15 feet. The wire went up on > February 1st with AL-mer, N5XZ, being my first contact on HF. Ended up with > WAS on phone across 10, 12, 15, 20 and 40 meters with W1AW portables and > over 9000 points in the challenge all on phone. I heard K1ZZ on most bands > as well as K1RO but could not compete with beams and amplifiers in the > pile-ups. Did work Kay once as well as W1VT whose wife became a silent key > about 6 weeks ago. W6SX and N6JV multiple bands as well. Above all I had a > ball and made new friends along the way. Heard many BVARC members including > you, W5RH, KE5OBY, N5DTT, K5WRN, WS5H, N5AFV, K5LJ, K5HM, N5MT, WN5A, > W5HFF, > KC5JAR, KF5EYC, K5CAM, and others. > > What a fun event! Anticipation of it was the catalyst behind my getting my > General a year ago after 16 years of being a tech. Now to get to work > improving the antenna. I didn't want to touch it until after the event for > fear of messing up what seemed to be working at least reasonably well. > > 73... and I hope that everyone else had as much fun as I. > > Have a happy and prosperous New Year! > > Scott KD5FBA > > > Scott Medbury > 16802 Aprilmont Drive > Sugar Land, TX 77498-1941 > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce via BVARC > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 6:31 PM > To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB; Houston ECHO Society > Subject: [BVARC] ARRL Centennial > > Well, the year is over and so is the ARRL Centennial celebration. For those > that dabbled and those that were serious, I am sure I speak for most, it > was > a lot of fun. I started 2 months late (bought my new radio the last week of > February) and was not able to get double Worked All States. But, that is > okay, I still got Worked All States, Mixed, CW and Phone. I added all the > special territories and DC. > > By Thanksgiving, I had 7,500 points and was happy with that certificate. > Getting another 7,500 points to earn the top certificate at 15,000 seemed > almost impossible as it took me 9 months to reach 7,500 points. > With concentration on the 100 plus point counters, by Christmas day, I hit > 15,000 and today I ended with slightly over 20,000, maybe even 21,000. > > Those that I found multiple bands/modes the most were W1VT 7 times, K1RO > 9 times, W6SX 6 times and N6JV 8 times. I worked Kay, N3KN, twice and Dave, > K1ZZ, 4 times. > > I heard N5XZ several times whilest chasing my score and he was way ahead of > me in points. I think W1HQ was the hardest to find and work. Until this > week, I only worked them once. Last Friday, I found them another time. > Today, they were on the most but I was not home to catch the extra points. > > All my operating was on 10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30 meters. My 40m dipole does > not seem to work any longer and I am not sure if it is coax or antenna > problem. I can hear perfectly, just cannot transmit. That could have got me > a lot of night time contacts. My antenna is a Force 12 C4 (10, 15, 20 with > the 40m dipole). Go figure how it works on 12, 17, 30 without an external > tuner. The magic of electrons. > > 73...bruce > > -- > > Bruce Paige, KK5DO > > AMSAT Director Contests and Awards > > ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE > > Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0200z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live > streaming MP3 at http://www.amsatnet.com Podcast at > http://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes > > Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www.arrl.org > > AMSAT on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/amsat > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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