[ADXA] w1aw/5 in 2005

[J. Setcer]

Oh Yea. Sorry. The Gold coins were just a last minute thought to my
original post.
Both were FANTASTIC events that I totally enjoyed, even if they were 9
years apart.
Sometimes I get this stuff mixed up.
- QJ

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:15 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That certificate was from when W1AW/5 participated in the IARU contest in
> 2005 as an HQ station.  I believe station locations were K5GO (all bands
> CW), K5EJ, K5UZ, and others.  We had 10M SSB from K5BAT and did some
> filling in late at night on 40 SSB.  10m was not very good and little DX
> was workable in July.  We hoped for a monster Sporadic E opening but it
> never happened.  We worked a lot  on backscatter and tropo scatter.  Thank
> goodness for QRO.  It was brute force or nothing.
>
> 40 meter SSB was OK but there weren’t enough stations to work.
>
> We did the Centennial thing for W1AW/5 at K5BAT in 2014.   I think we
> worked over 7000 Q’s for the Centennial.  I remember tremendous pileups on
> 17M SSB and 30M CW was a zoo.  Same for 30M RTTY.  Fun times!
>
> 73,
> Dennis/RZ
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 10:58 AM J. Setcer <j.setcer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I find the coolest stuff when I'm looking for something else.
>> I stumbled across this Cert. from 2005 this morning. Signed by ZN.
>> A bunch of Big Guns listed on there.
>> I knew the whole time I was walking in tall cotton and playing radio with
>> the Big Boys.
>> W5RZ made the appointments and arranged the time slots for the K5BAT
>> group. All I had to do was sit at the radio and try to handle the pile ups.
>> AND, I have a couple of the ARRL gold coins that David & Joel handed out.
>> It is an experience I will never forget.
>> I'm N5QJ, and I approve this message.
>>
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