Anyone on for the contest??? 20 Meters sure is dead! 73's Trev - K6ESE http://www.qsl.net/k6ese dit dididit dit dit dit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Lachow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "a new, nice low-energy list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Li'l Piggies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "List Elecraft" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:56 AM Subject: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!
> 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 > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
