[SOC] Fw: [CQ-Contest] You can win a contest!

[Bob Nielsen]

On May 13, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Art - W6KY wrote:

> Not how WRTC works. All the stations are as identical 'as possible'. Co-located
> as close as possible. Not Michigan and Maryland. Most judges from CQ Contesting 
> Hall of Fame. Great sponsors. Logs must be turned in immediately. 
> As an example of operators over equipment. Two WRTC's ago the winning team
> was using an IC-765. A radio from 1989.
> 
> WRTC is the pinnacle of contesting. Those who are into contesting love it (or
> hate it for not being invited to a team).. Those not into contesting probably 
> can't
> see the point. That's the same with all aspects of amateur radio. I don't do
> SSB on 40 meters in the daytime, talk thru a repeater, send pictures on 14230
> or bounce RF off the moon, but there are those who to them is, amateur radio. 
> Good for them!
> 
> Long live WRTC. Started by Danny,K7SS, who should be our SOC President
> except he won't join a club that will have him as a member.....  :)

Danny is SOC #637, although I recall that someone else may have entered his name (how second class is that?)  He is also the Grand Poobah of the Quarter Century Appliance Operators (QCAO), which should be our sister organization.

Bob, N7XY 
SOC #77

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