That's right...we might have EIGHT Barbers on hand tonight! If you work all eight on all three bands, you'd get 24,000 bonus points. But it's simply not possible.
Your Barbers: Joe, AA4NN, operating his club call, K5ESE. Joe's in Delhi, LA, tonight, operating his K2 at 5W to a center-fed Zepp at 17 feet. Jeff, K9ESE, in Muncie, IN, will be running his Red Hot 40 and Red Hot 20 at 5W to a vertical end-fed Zepp for 20 and 40 meters, and an NVIS horizontal end-fed Zepp for 40 meters. The NVIS antenna will be 16 feet off the ground, with a wire reflector directly under it. Both antennas tuned with LDG Z-11 tuners. Be tough to work Jeff on 80M tonight. Trev, K6ESE, will be coming to you from Los Angeles, CA, on his K2 at 5W into an 88' EDZ inverted vee, 40' at the apex, and 12' at the ends. The ends face roughly North-South. His paddle will be either the Schurr Profi II or Begali Magnetic Signature. Monty, N5ESE, in Austin, TX, is also running a K2 at 5W, and it's hooked up to a 40M inverted vee. I'm ALMOST sure Monty will be in there... Tom, K2ESE, in Elizabeth, NJ, one of our new Barbers, will be using an FT-1000 MK5 (cranked down to 5 watts, of course), an Alpha Delta LB Plus dipole (160~40 ), and a beam for the higher bands. Bryan, W0ESE, of Holts Summit, MO, is another new Barber. Joe Rutledge, W7ESE, of Seattle, WA, rounds out our current crop of first-time Barbers. He wanted to use his Rock-Mite, but, hopefully, I've convinced him to use his my FT-897 at 5 watts, to give more of us a chance to work him. Joe is using a trap dipole. Lloyd, K3ESE, in Reisterstown, MD, is using his multiPIG+ at 5W to an 88' EDZ at 45' and a 302' horizontal loop up about 50', both fed with balanced line and tuned with a ZM-2. Barbers will call "CQ ESE," and Customers will call "CQ BS." Barbers may work split, if necessary. All the details, an easy-to-use autolog for reporting your scores afterwards, and results will be found at http://www.io.com/~n5fc/barbershop_contest.htm . This event combines the non-stop action of a two-hour sprint with the hunt-type event, albeit with eight ops being hunted, rather than one or two. The Barbers are spread out across the US, so everyone ought to be able to grab some of those bonus points. ...got two bits...? for the Barbers, Lloyd, K3ESE __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Now with 25x more storage than before! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -To unsubscribe, mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], msg: unsubscribe fpqrp-l -
