[NLRS] 10 GHz & Up Contest Write-Up

[Baker, Donn B]

YEAH! JON.

Good job.  One might even say, excellent !

The only thing that bothers me are those 30-some logs with DX of 350 and 400 km.  We're going to have work a bit harder this year, I guess.

73 Donn
WA2VOI/0

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> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:01 PM
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> Subject: [NLRS] 10 GHz & Up Contest Write-Up
> 
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> 
> 
> Hello NLRS land.
> 
> The 2005 10 GHz & Up contest results are now publically 
> available on the
> Members Only portion of the ARRLs website at
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/ along with line scores.
> Congratulations to Gary, WB0LJC, for taking first place 
> nationally in the
> 10 GHz & Up category, followed in second place by John, W0JT, and Bob,
> W0AUS in third.   NLRS took first, second, and third in that 
> catagory !
> In the 10 GHz Only category, the W6/XE2 connection resulted in first
> through fifth place with lots of long contacts in the 800 + km range.
> After this group there is the NLRS consortium led by Bruce, 
> W9FZ taking
> sixth place.   After Bruce, in 7th thru 11th place we have 
> VOI, ZQ, KP, UK,
> and JI.     The W6-boys only beat us by about 43K this year 
> ..... the gap
> is shortening !      In addition,  the NLRS guys had the top 
> six places for
> number of QSOs with Bruce again leading the way with 555 QSO 
> ...... all on
> 10 GHz !     Our region sure had a great showing, what a fun 
> contest.   I'm
> already looking forward to next years event.
> 
> Enjoy the write-up.   Make sure you catch the three sidebar 
> articles and
> their JPG's by Mel & Carol, KC0P/N0HZO, John, W0JT, and 
> AD6FP/W6QI on their
> 24 and 47 GHz work.
> 
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
> 
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