[Elecraft] Re: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!
Trev - K6ESE
k6ese-list1 at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 29 21:52:11 EDT 2004
Anyone on for the contest??? 20 Meters sure is dead!
73's Trev - K6ESE
http://www.qsl.net/k6ese
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Lachow" <llachow at yahoo.com>
To: "a new, nice low-energy list" <qrp-l at mailman.qth.net>; "Li'l Piggies"
<fpqrp-l at mpna.com>; "List Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:56 AM
Subject: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!
> That's right...we might have EIGHT Barbers on hand
> tonight! If you work all eight on all three bands,
> you'd get 24,000 bonus points. But it's simply not
> possible.
>
> Your Barbers:
>
> Joe, AA4NN, operating his club call, K5ESE. Joe's
> in Delhi, LA, tonight, operating his K2 at 5W to a
> center-fed Zepp at 17 feet.
>
> Jeff, K9ESE, in Muncie, IN, will be running his Red
> Hot 40 and Red Hot 20 at 5W to a vertical end-fed Zepp
> for 20 and 40 meters, and an NVIS horizontal
> end-fed Zepp for 40 meters. The NVIS antenna will be
> 16 feet off the ground, with a wire reflector directly
> under it. Both antennas tuned with LDG Z-11 tuners. Be
> tough to work Jeff on 80M tonight.
>
> Trev, K6ESE, will be coming to you from Los
> Angeles, CA, on his K2 at 5W into an 88' EDZ inverted
> vee,
> 40' at the apex, and 12' at the ends. The ends face
> roughly North-South. His paddle will be either the
> Schurr Profi II or Begali Magnetic Signature.
>
> Monty, N5ESE, in Austin, TX, is also running a K2
> at 5W, and it's hooked up to a 40M inverted vee. I'm
> ALMOST sure Monty will be in there...
>
> Tom, K2ESE, in Elizabeth, NJ, one of our new
> Barbers, will be using an FT-1000 MK5 (cranked down to
> 5 watts, of course), an Alpha Delta LB Plus dipole
> (160~40 ), and a beam for the higher bands.
>
> Bryan, W0ESE, of Holts Summit, MO, is another new
> Barber.
>
> Joe Rutledge, W7ESE, of Seattle, WA, rounds out our
> current crop of first-time Barbers. He wanted to use
> his Rock-Mite, but, hopefully, I've convinced him to
> use his my FT-897 at 5 watts, to give more of us a
> chance to work him. Joe is using a trap dipole.
>
> Lloyd, K3ESE, in Reisterstown, MD, is using his
> multiPIG+ at 5W to an 88' EDZ at 45' and a 302'
> horizontal loop up about 50', both fed with balanced
> line and tuned with a ZM-2.
>
>
> Barbers will call "CQ ESE," and Customers will call
> "CQ BS." Barbers may work split, if necessary. All the
> details, an easy-to-use autolog for reporting your
> scores afterwards, and results will be found at
> http://www.io.com/~n5fc/barbershop_contest.htm .
>
>
> This event combines the non-stop action of a
> two-hour sprint with the hunt-type event, albeit with
> eight ops being hunted, rather than one or two. The
> Barbers are spread out across the US, so everyone
> ought to be able to grab some of those bonus points.
>
>
> ...got two bits...?
>
>
> for the Barbers,
>
> Lloyd, K3ESE
>
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