[K6BW] Re: WRTC/ and IARU world championship

[BBQ]

Hello Dave and HWA ham-sters,

I and the rest of the HWA ham-sters are rooting for you and your friend 
to win.
Plus you are a local guy, so all of Marin and wherever else will be 
rooting for you.
I wish you the best and will have as many QSOs as I can next Saturday.

I do have a memorial for a good friend next Saturday evening, but I will 
have most of Saturday to make contacts. I was planning on making some 
QSOs too on Sunday, but since it is only 24 hours and ends Sunday at 5am 
local time, Saturday is going to be my only shot.  I will be operating 
from my home QTH but may also stop by at the club.

-May the sun shine down upon you and success be yours!!!

73,

Rem
K6BBQ


David Mueller wrote:
> Hi guys,
>    Thanks for supporting me on my trip to Brazil for
> WRTC.  WRTC is held in conjunction with the IARU
> contest, which begins next Saturday at 1200Z UTC, and
> runs 24 hours.  
>     The WRTC competitors will be easy to find.  We
> will all have specially assigned callsigns, PW5* or
> PT5*, the * being a one letter suffix.  There are 47
> teams, and awards will be issued for working all of
> them.  
> I won't know which callsign I have been assigned until
> 10 minutes before the contest start, and I cannot
> announce who I am during the contest.  This is to
> prevent any favoritism of friends only working
> friends.
>     We should be very easy to work.  There are 47
> identical stations with a tribander, 2el 40M yagi, and
> 80M dipole.  We will be using Acom 1010 amplifiers
> with about 700 watts output.
>     As Bill commented, I will most likely be operating
> primarily CW.  My partner, N6MJ, is a much better SSB
> operator and will be handling most of those duties. 
> Since CW QSOs count the same as SSB, if the band is 
> open, expect us to be on phone since you can work
> stations much faster on that mode.  We are hoping to
> work about 3,000 people to be in the running for the
> win - not bad for 24 hours!
>
> You can follow the progress of the contest online. 
> There is a scoreboard that will update every hour. 
> Here is the URL:
>
> http://www.hagasoft.com
>
> They are currently running a demo score board, and we
> hope to be much higher on the list once the real
> contest starts!
>
> I'm leaving Tuesday AM, and will return the following
> Wednesday.  I'll keep my ear open for HWA members, and
> thanks for supporting team N2NL/N6MJ!
> 73, Dave N2NL
>
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