[ADXA] w1aw/5 in 2005

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

That's not correct. I did not say you pee like a puppy. I said "You 
can't run with the BIG DOGS if you pee like a puppy". You conducted a 
personal assessment and came to that conclusion on your own !!!!!!   
:-)))

Joel

On 2023-05-25 21:44, J. Setcer wrote:

> 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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