[ADXA] w1aw/5 in 2005

[J. Setcer]

I am only slightly embarrassed that I confused two FANTASTIC events that
were nine years apart.
Joel says I pee like a puppy. Yet, through the years I have represented us
well, and ran pile-ups like a Big Dog, and I've got the gold coins to prove
it.

In the ARRL 100 year event I kept telling our guys "Your log HAS TO BE
GOLDEN.  No one is going to live long enough to work this again".
-- QJ


On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:52 PM David Norris <k5uz at icloud.com> wrote:

> We had 20 SSB and picked up 40 for a bit until we lost a BPF and passed it
> to you guys up at the BAT. 20 was nothing but a pile up. I think we had
> picked up 40 from EJ due to a rotor failure and I had the ability to run
> multi-two- until the BPF failed. Murphy definitely went after 40 SSB
> stations! Mike NL7RQ and I had it cooking with the EU run in the AM and the
> JA run in the PM… 2005 IARU…K5EJ and KD5J came over and operated too.
>
> 2014 was a blast too. Pile up city. K4UEE once said you’re not a CW
> operator until you have a pile up howl at you. During 2014 IARU and the 10m
> contest I had CW pile ups howling at me.
>
> VOTA hasn’t been quite that wild - yet.
>
> K5UZ UP 1
>
> 73
>
> David A. Norris, K5UZ
> Director, Delta Division
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 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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