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How I Fell in Love with Contesting Reply
by K0BJ on March 8, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
Well, Lee's story is interesting and MOST of it is true. I know for a fact my rig was a SB-101, and while I don't recall the lollipop stick, it 'sounds like me' so I suppose that part may be true.

That pair of 813s later became my first amp, and I somehow horsed it up 12 stairs to my shack BY MYSELF. The fact it was 2AM when I did that deed may have actually helped..... college years, ya know.

The friends we make while pursuing ham radio are valued ones, and the chance to meet them occasionally, on the air or in person, make it that much nicer.

73 Bruce K0BJ
 
How I Fell in Love with Contesting Reply
by W0LD on March 20, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
Boy, did that article by Lee really bring back memories.
Thanks for all the Contesting and Kansas ham memories.
 
How I Fell in Love with Contesting Reply
by AB0S on March 30, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
Darn if he didn't have to go mention that bug. I was so tickled when he got his first keyer! Copying dits at 50 wpm and dahs at 10 wpm can drive even the most stable CW op to the brink of insanity. HI!

All kidding aside, it has been a joy to mult-op with my good friend these many years.

Tim, AB0S
 
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by AB0S on March 30, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
Darn if he didn't have to go mention that bug. I was so tickled when he got his first keyer! Copying dits at 50 wpm and dahs at 10 wpm can drive even the most stable CW op to the brink of insanity. HI!

All kidding aside, it has been a joy to mult-op with my good friend these many years.

Tim, AB0S
 
How I Fell in Love with Contesting Reply
Anonymous post on May 28, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
Whaddya mean, find that old bug? While reading your story all I had to do to try W0QQQ on mine was to move my arm in a 45 degree arc from the keyboard and there it was. Bought it 2nd hand in 1950. If you worked me in WPX CW this weekend and caused me to actually use it, though, you might have regretted it. Been away from the game for some decades and am pretty rusty.

W0QQQ is a killer of a call. A couple of good ops can complete a Q in the time it takes to send it three times!

Nice story. Thanks.

Jim Smith VE7FO
 

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