[MRCA] Classic Exchange and OMRN Report

[Rob Flory]

Greetings,

Follows my report from the Sunday session of the Classic Exchange, and
OMRN/CW from that night.  There is another session of CX on Tuesday.

I started at 1445 on 40m with NVIS propagation in full. swing.  The 3 QSOs
I made in that hour were all in PA, including Mark K3MSB with his
SCR-274N.  Mark ended up being the only one of my 9 QSOs using mil gear.  I
was running my TRC-77a and a dipole.

In the late afternoon(40m again) I made one QSO with the TRC-77a and then
switched to my TCK/RAL combo.  I had told W1GF earlier while running the
TRC-77a to look for me with another combo and I told him he would be able
to tell the difference.  An hour later I answered his CQ with the TCK and
he said, "U were right"  ;<)

The late afternoon/early evening session ended with CM3JRH at 2323, who was
not in the CX.  I had planned to take a break from CX to check in on the
OMRN, whose QSOs would all count in CX because we usually share what rig we
are running.  After CM3JRH I went upstairs to greet my wife who was home
after a week.  I ate a little ice cream and sat down with some Netfiix to
pass the time until OMRN.

Cozy in my chair, I took an unintended break from consciousness until 9
minutes into OMRN.  Sigh, I'm too young to be too old for this stuff.  I
tuned in and heard KK4RF turn it over to W2ILA.  I decided to skip trying
to check in during the second callup.  I realized that I should have
reprogrammed one of my 80m channels on the ProgRock to the vicinity of the
CX frequency of 3545 instead of the 3524 I use for random ragchews.

Although the evening into night tends to be the most productive time for me
in CX, it was also past my bedtime on a work night, so I took a break from
the night session.  It was too much trouble to retune the TCK to 80m.  Call
me lazy.

All in all it was way more breaks than operating.  Included in the breaks
were dog time outside combined with firewood and antenna work,  and
delicious homemade tamales with some friends at lunch.

73
ZUT DE K2WI
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