[OKDXA] ARRL DX contest

[K5TT]

It was a great time to work a lot of countries.  40
and 80 were great.

Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <johngeig at yahoo.com>
To: <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 11:57 PM
Subject: [OKDXA] ARRL DX contest


> Did everyone have fun in the ARRL DX CW contest this
> past weekend?  I found it kind of strange realizing
> that this was the last contest where you had to have
> actually demonstrated CW proficiency at one time to
> enter.
>
> Well the conditions seemed pretty good and I put in
a
> few hours here and there on 15m and 80m only.  Had a
> blast last night on 80, working 22 countries total
on
> that band.  I woke up right around sunrise this AM
and
> instead of rolling over and going back to sleep like
I
> normally would on a Sunday morning, I got up to
check
> the greyline prop since it was a contest weekend.
> Worked a few JAs on 80, and then caught VK9DNX for a
> new 80m country!  That is 6 new countries on 80 this
> winter (E51-N, GI, OE, YV0, 5A, and VK9N).  15 was
> pretty good today and had a nice JA opening around
> 4:30pm or so.  Picked up a few new prefixes.
>
> Bert, you about broke my S meter on 80 saturday
night!
>
> 73s John W5TD
>
>
>
>
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