[NLRS] 10GHz Contest report

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

I haven't received my March QST either but I'm sure this is the BEST article 
in that issue.

Congrats to Jon for being offered the opportunity, accepting Dan's 
"challenge" and, from a quick look at the 'members-only' web page version 
and the QST pages which ARE available to all (see 
http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/2005/10GHz.pdf ), doing an EXCELLENT 
job!

On the web, Congrats ALSO to John (W0JT) and to Mel and Carol (KC0P and 
N0HZO) for their Sidebars.

Remember to vote for Jon's write-up as your favorite article in the March 
QST.

Vote at http://www.arrl.org/members-only/qstvote.html and click on the link 
to Access the March 2006 poll

Being from the Chicago area, I could also say "Vote Early and Vote Often" 
but they do keep track and only allow each member to vote once but it SEEMS 
I should be able to vote again if I go to a different Grid Square, right? 
;-) Or, remembering that this is the 10G and up contest...if I move at least 
16km ;-) ;-)

73, JK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <W0ZQ at aol.com>
To: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 08:03
Subject: Re: [NLRS] 10GHz Contest report




Thanks for the kind words Donn.   Here is the story.    Dan H. approached me
to see if I would do the write-up after his primary and  back-up authors
canceled out on him.   I said sure.  Looking at  previous years write-ups, 
it was
interesting to see how the 10 GHz & Up  write-up has grown from first one 
page,
to two pages, to recently three pages  ..... so I wrote the QST article as
three pages and then embellished that for  the website with one more section 
and
the four plots.    Although  I havent seen my QST yet, I understand that the
QST article got trimmed from my  original three pages .... Dan said that 
this
may happen when the editor has to  pull the monthly magazine together and
adjust for the total allowable  pages.   As an author, one must have thick 
skin
when facing the  dreaded "editor".   The website article remained untouched.

I think its great that some of the ARRL VHF/UHF/microwave articles are
getting more authorship and perspective other than the traditional 
right-hand
coast.   We need to continue with that trend.

73,  Jon
W0ZQ


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