[HCRA] HCRA 10 Meter Contest & Score Posting

Sun Dec 14 22:24:54 EST 2008

I live up here now. I was actually in Harrisburg for all but 2 or 3 contacts I made. Went to church and saw the YL at her weekend per diem job as an EMT before shuffling back home to do some hard relaxing and laundry.

I thought about going up on the mountain next to my house but conditions did not warrant it. Plus its deer season in PA (final weekend of rifle season) and there are more armed people running around that mountain now then we deployed in all of Iraq! (nearly 1 million deer licenses given out this year!) so no way in hell am up going up on a mountain where bullets and beer are mingling! (Especially if I cannot shoot back lol) I will head up there for VHF context weekend. I can at least work 6m SSB on my vertical. That should give away a fairly well occupied grid.

Dan S
KO1D/3

----- Original Message ----
From: "Rick Lindquist, WW3DE" <ww3de at comcast.net>
To: Dan Sullivan <djs13 at yahoo.com>; HCRA <hcra at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 10:18:27 PM
Subject: RE: [HCRA] HCRA 10 Meter Contest & Score Posting

______________________________________________
-------Hampden County Radio Association-------
-----------e-mail list (reflector)-------------
______________________________________________
I probably would have done better from the /m myself.

What are you doing in Mexberg?

73

-----Original Message-----
From: hcra-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:hcra-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Dan Sullivan
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 10:16 PM
To: HCRA
Subject: Re: [HCRA] HCRA 10 Meter Contest & Score Posting

______________________________________________
-------Hampden County Radio Association-------
-----------e-mail list (reflector)-------------
______________________________________________
I worked about a half dozen stations from the mobile here in Central PA.
Conditions were indeed crappy though I did land SD, FL, AL, MS, LA, and KS
pretty readily with a minimal effort (1 call each to work em all) running
100w into the screwdriver antenna on the truck. Then again I think I worked
everyone I heard except for 1 extremely weak DX station hanging around 495
or 497. Mighta been a KP4 or NP4 station but he was S0 and fading when I
found him. The only states clearly heard and not worked: MD and PA oddly
enough. The two were loud which surpises me with MD because I am about an
hour from the MD border via the highway. The PA was a local but he scooted
away before I got him.

I cannot wait for the "other" sunspot to appear I tell ya. (No I did not try
to log and contest while driving in the city today sorry.)

Mike that is not crappy audio, just you calling CQ Moron during a 10m test.
;) HI HI

Dan S
KO1D/3
Mechanicsburg, PA

----- Original Message ----
From: "Mike DeChristopher, K1KAA" <k1kaa at arrl.net>
To: HCRA <hcra at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:47:44 PM
Subject: Re: [HCRA] HCRA 10 Meter Contest & Score Posting

______________________________________________
-------Hampden County Radio Association-------
-----------e-mail list (reflector)-------------
______________________________________________
Make sure your club affil. line looks like "Hampden County Radio Assn".
Association is shortened.  Someone has trouble every year.

I handed out a couple Q's down the CW end (I was trying to get my new keyer
configured).  Didn't have much more time than that, unfortunately.  I am
still microphone-less; my prosets are launching some absolutely dirty audio
and I still have them all pulled apart.

Condx were poor?  On 10?  Rick say it ain't so!

-- 
Mike DeChristopher, K1KAA
k1kaa at arrl.net
http://k1kaa.413ma.org
AR-Cluster node telnet://dx.413ma.org

Rick Lindquist, WW3DE wrote:
> ______________________________________________
> -------Hampden County Radio Association-------
> -----------e-mail list (reflector)-------------
> ______________________________________________
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I didn't hear any New England stations here - condx were really poor, by
> and large, except into parts of southern South America. I'll be happy to
> contribute my puny point total to HCRA, as I did for the ARRL 160-Meter
> Contest last weekend (although I did far better in the latter event).
>
>
>
> Happy holidays, and I hope no one is suffering too badly because of the
> ice storm we keep hearing about in the news. We just got a lot of rain
> here in Delmarva.
>
>
>
> 73, Rick, WW3DE
>
>
>
> Delaware
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* hcra-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:hcra-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf Of *Jim Mullen
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 14, 2008 8:28 PM
> *To:* HCRA at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject:* [HCRA] HCRA 10 Meter Contest & Score Posting
>
>
>
> OK Gang,
>
>
>
> The contest is over so shut off the rigs and get your logs ready to send
> in to ARRL!
>
>
>
> Sunspots were at a minimum but HCRA operators were not. I worked at
> least a half dozen including my last contact at 23:59:59 - KB1MU! I hope
> everyone had as much fun as I did over the weekend.
>
>
>
> As you get your logs ready to send in to ARRL don't forget two things...
>
>
>
> 1. Be sure to identify your club as Hampden County Radio Assn if you're
> submitting it electronically to the 'robot'.
>
> 2. Send me a copy of your score and class entered so I can post it on
> the HCRA web page.
>
>
>
> I'll get the page up later this evening and be ready for your input.
> Please include a few 'soapbox' comments as well. Funny things that
> happened during the contest, a new state/province worked, equipment that
> blew up - stuff like that.
>
>
>
> In closing it was so exciting to hear all the HCRA participation out
> there. In fact I had a short QSO with Tom, K1KI on SSB Sunday and me
> mentioned hearing a lot of HCRA hams in the contest. Isn't it great to
> be part of such an active group?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your participation and Happy Holidays!
>
>
>
> Jim, KK1W!W
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ------Hampden County Radio Association-------
> An ARRL Special Services Club celebrating 60 years
> ------------http://www.hcra.org------------
> ________________________________________________________
>
> To unsubscribe from the list please visit:
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra
>
> Address any comments to:
> -Jim, KK1W  -  kk1w at charter.net
> _______________________________________________
> HCRA mailing list
> HCRA at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra

------Hampden County Radio Association-------
An ARRL Special Services Club celebrating 60 years
------------http://www.hcra.org------------
________________________________________________________

To unsubscribe from the list please visit:
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra

Address any comments to:
-Jim, KK1W  -  kk1w at charter.net
_______________________________________________
HCRA mailing list
HCRA at mailman.qth.net
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra

------Hampden County Radio Association-------
An ARRL Special Services Club celebrating 60 years
------------http://www.hcra.org------------
________________________________________________________

To unsubscribe from the list please visit:
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra

Address any comments to:
-Jim, KK1W  -  kk1w at charter.net
_______________________________________________
HCRA mailing list
HCRA at mailman.qth.net
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra

------Hampden County Radio Association-------
An ARRL Special Services Club celebrating 60 years
------------http://www.hcra.org------------
________________________________________________________

To unsubscribe from the list please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra

Address any comments to:
-Jim, KK1W  -  kk1w at charter.net
_______________________________________________
HCRA mailing list
HCRA at mailman.qth.net
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcra