Well, that was quite a shoot off, indeed.
However, if K0RF's station is in any way a "David," most of us are mere
ants in the garden of life!
73--Jim, K6ZH
>From georgen@redwood.stortek.com (George Noyes x5698) Fri Dec 3 00:40:23 1993
From: georgen@redwood.stortek.com (George Noyes x5698) (George Noyes x5698)
Subject: cqww and ss ssb, W1XE/W0KEA
Message-ID: <9312030040.AA27573@redwood.stortek.com>
I've been out of reach of the reflector for the last week so here's
a two contest update:
ARRL Sweepstakes Phone
Station: W1XE Section: Colorado Class: B
Op 24 Hrs, Operator, W1XE, George
Location: Aspen Contest Station, Near Aspen, CO
Results: 1550 Qs x 77 Sections (Sweep) ==> 238,700 points
(Raw score)
Comments: 10m stunk, but did at least get a few hrs on 10m
Lots of VYs....
Had to run "B" just to keep the shack warm...:-)
Regrets: again not comming in top in CO
(hey, its tough out here)
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CQWW CW
Station: W0KEA (Ops: W0KEA, W1XE, K0KR, W0UO)
Class: Multi-Single
Location: Aspen Contest Station, Near Aspen, CO
Results:
Band Qs Z C
160 20 11 16
80 105 25 54
40 536 34 101
20 515 36 109
15 349 30 90
10 67 23 46
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1592 159 416 Est: 2.4 Million
Comments: Terrible 10m conditions
Certainly marginal conditions to Europe
Challenging times to get to the site... (a bit o' snow)
40m is considered to be our weakest station setup, guess
which station we needed this year......
One computer died 1 hr before contest (instant fix time...)
Lost one antenna tuner at 20 hrs (40m of course).
Last equipment installed 5 min before beginning of contest..
Wx: 12" snow, -10 degrees (Friday Morning)
Good news: Phil won the toss and now needs to get more QSL cards...
Yup, we had fun! (oh Ya, no smoke.... :-)
Additionally, one spot in the road to the contest site has now been
dubbed "George's trench...."
Most importantly: imported the CO op who beat me in SS the weekend before...
73 de George, W1XE (/0) "That's Colorado, NOT Connecticut!"
email: georgen@redwood.stortek.com
>From aa2du@attmail.com (J P Kleinhaus ) Fri Dec 3 00:48:41 1993
From: aa2du@attmail.com (J P Kleinhaus ) (J P Kleinhaus )
Subject: More on X5
Hi Dave, thanks for the note. Nice to hear you on this past weekend.
As far as I can tell, the committee has disallowed X5 for QSO, Country,
and Zone credit because they say they are basically unlicensed. They
claim they are nothing more than glorified CB operators.
The stations claim they are licensed by the Republic of Serbs,
an enclave within Bosnia-Herzegovina. My point is only this: there is
no dispute as to where they are operating from, so why not give them
QSO and Zone credit if not Country credit. You could even make them
count for YU without stretching too much.
CQ Magazine has already shown that you don't have to be licensed
to have your card count towards one of their awards. Specifically, I am
referring to 1Z9A (correct call finally) and S21NQ. Neither of these
stations was ever licensed by the government of the host countries.
With this logic already in place, it seems to me that counting X5 is not
hard to allow.
I certainly don't wish to criticize the contest committee because
they do a very good job with a very difficult situation. I am just
curious as to how they determined that X5 is not good for anything.
73 de J.P. AA2DU
ARRL Hudson Division CAC Rep.
aa2du@attmail.com
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