Dee Flint wrote:
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From: Dee Flint on Sun, Oct 29 2006 8:48 am
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Dee Flint wrote:
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I started out in HF radio with the mission of keeping
communications channels open and working 24/7. Not my
thing to hop all over some small band and making
transitory contact with some individual one will probably
never "work" again. I put that on par with being a fan
of "Wheel of Fortune." :-)
In this weekend's CQ Worldwide DX Contest, serious ops likely contacted
the same station on a number of bands. They likely worked most of those
stations on a number of bands last year and the year before. Don't worry
too much about it. You'd have to obtain an amateur radio license before
you could participate.
That's for sure Dave. I have worked WP2Z a total of 25 times in 5 years and
I am only a casual contester.
Dee, N8UZE
After a while, Dee, you hit Dayton and other hamfests and you meet some
of these contest ops. I've been working Mike Wetzel W9RE for thirty
years or so in contests. I've known Tim K3LR since he was a teenager.
He and WA3FET designed the Bencher Skyhawk tribander in recent years.
Back in 1990 when I was 9L1US in Sierra Leone, I worked Don Karvonen
K8MFO on ten bands within a 24 hour period (and not in a contest). Don
and I were on Market Reef in 1986.
Dave K8MN