[PPRAANet] Station offer for Rookie Roundup Contest

[DickT-W0RAA]

A couple of good ideas, Dave.  So far no response from anybody, but the 
message was only sent out an hour or so ago.  Hope somebody takes me up on 
it.

Dick
W0RAA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" <desloan at earthlink.net>
To: "DickT-W0RAA" <dickt at w0raa.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [PPRAANet] Station offer for Rookie Roundup Contest


> Dick,
>   That is a fantastic idea. I think that an article in Zero beat that 
> promotes the next ARRL Rookie Roundup Contest and a challange for others 
> to offer the use of their stations would be a great idea. Maybe even 
> allowing the station owner to claim the points from the contest for the 
> club competion. This would be a great concept to get others behind to 
> allow for some mentoring. I might suggest that a dry run to allow the 
> 'Rookie' to become familuar with the station and logging program prior to 
> the contest would be a good idea. Along with promoting that the 'Rookies' 
> upgrade and making sure that the club offers upgrade classes for those 
> that want to upgrade. Wow, you can see that this idea just keeps morphing 
> in my mind. I am going to try to get something simular started here in 
> Wayne County, IN.
>
> 73,
> Dave N0EOP
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: DickT-W0RAA <dickt at w0raa.com>
>>Sent: Aug 14, 2010 1:52 PM
>>To: PPRAA Reflector <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: [PPRAANet] Station offer for Rookie Roundup Contest
>>
>>Tomorrow, Sunday, August 15th from Noon (local time) to 6 PM (local time) 
>>is
>>the ARRL Rookie Roundup Contest.
>>
>>This contest is for newly licensed amateurs who were licensed in 2008, 
>>2009
>>or 2010.  If you were previously licensed prior to those years and let 
>>your
>>license expire and then were relicensed during any of those 3 years, you 
>>do
>>not qualify as a Rookie.  I would suggest that anybody who might be
>>interested in my offer to read the information at
>>http://www.arrl.org/hf-operating-guidelines.
>>
>>
>>Here's my offer:
>>
>>I have a complete contest station consisting of the following:
>>
>>Yaesu FT-950 - 100 watts
>>Yaesu FT-857D - 100 watts
>>Ameritron AL-811 Amplifier - Cannot be used in this contest
>>Hy-Gain TH5DX Beam - 5 elements on a 40' crank-up tower
>>Butternut HF9V Vertical - ground mounted
>>
>>I would like to extend an invitation to any one new ham who would like to
>>participate in the Rookie Roundup contest from Noon till 6 PM tomorrow
>>(Sunday).  You can be a Technician Class, General Class or Extra Class and
>>use your own call with my station license privileges, Extra Class.  You 
>>may
>>operate only SSB during this contest.  The program used for logging will 
>>be
>>WriteLog v10.78.
>>
>>I can accommodate one and possibly 2 hams in my shack.  First come, first
>>served.
>>
>>If you are interested, please call me at 520-0288 here in Colorado Springs
>>before the end of today.
>>
>>73,
>>
>>Dick
>>W0RAA
>>
>>
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