[NLRS] Last Evening in Manitoba

[Barry VE4MA]

sorry guys...this was 6m !

Barry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry VE4MA" <ve4ma at shaw.ca>
To: "Barry VE4MA" <ve4ma at shaw.ca>; <w9fz at w9fz.com>; <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Last Evening in Manitoba


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>
> Good evening gentlemen,
> for those that didn't see today's news, history was made in Northern 
> Manitoba last evening.
> Seems our man in Thompson (Shawn, VE4SA) was fortunate to work MMØAMW from 
> IO75 in Northern Scotland on multi-hop auroral-e.
>    Adding to the excitement was that fact that I was on the telephone to 
> him from Iowa at that exact moment!  Shawn was kind enough to place the 
> telephone near the rig so I could hear both sides of the qso. The English 
> lad was sending at about 30wpm, and Shawn handled it beautifully!  Mr. 
> Peters did in thirty seconds what I could not do in ten years!
>     We must all take our hats off to him, and raise our 807's!   There is 
> talk that Shawn may be leaving the VHF ranks toward microwave EME.  That 
> will spell a sad day indeed.
>
>
> 73, de KG0VL
> Jeff
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