[SFDXA] Fw: [FCG] Well, it's official!

[Bill Marx]

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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: [FCG] Well, it's official!


> Here it is 5 AM in Finland.  The sun is up.  Many of the competitors are already on buses to the airport.  Alarm clocks are
sounding all up and down the hall.  I have been up all night (again) and am the only one that I know of still awake from last night.
>
> The Finns were tremendous hosts overall and they had a really FB dinner last night at a restaurant on an island that required
small ferry service to get to.  Now that the contest is over, the beer, etc. has been flowing freely.
>
> Many FCGers were worked from our OJ3A QTH, most of them loud!  Several people commented on the fabulous level of activity from
Florida - nice job, folks.
>
> Compared to the rest, we had a very average QTH with a flat takeoff in most directions and a slight uphill takeoff to the east.
It seemed like propagation from up here was not nearly as bad as we expected.  The top scores had around 2800 QSOs for the 24 hours.
>
> Congrats to Dave, N2NL for a very solid 4th place finish.  He very much appreciated all the FCG support and was quite open about
sharing his positive FCG sentiments with the crowd.  His frequent attempts at "physically intimidating" me were quite comical.
>
> Jeff, WC4E enjoyed refereeing.  In my current sleepy state, I cannot even recall which team was "his".
>
> I learned here that Jim, VE7ZO may be moving to the WCF area soon and that we will learn of his decision in the next week or so.
Jim just happened to be half of the #6 team, so that would be very neat to have 3 FCG ops in the top 6 WRTC finishers!
>
> Oh yeah, our finish...
>
> We won!  The N6TJ/N6AA score was inflated by TR and they finished about 15th.  The German team had some minor scoring issues with
Writelog and dropped just a bit.  Our logging accuracy allowed us to hang on for a narrow victory over them and the same Russian
team that was second in Slovenia.
>
> Wish I could send pix, but this is a public machine.  Plenty of pix to follow when we return.
>
> Off to bed.  I will be taking N5TJ to the airport in less than 7 hours, then packing and leaving for western Finland where WC4E
and I will take a ferry over to Sweden, beginning the journey home.  We plan to see the SK0UX station, then have lunch with SM0AJU
in the Stockholm area, then drive to Copenhagen and have a late dinner with OZ1AA and maybe OZ1LO.  From there, we drive back to
Amsterdam the next day and fly home Friday at noon.
>
> Only 534 AOL messages to wade thru - ugh.  Hope everyone is well back in FL.  C U soon.
>
> vy 73, Dan
>
> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz................