[TVARC] ARRL Sweepstakes

[rwmw1932 at comcast.net]

George, well done !! I did so poorly in the CQ WW SSB that did not even get on the air this weekend. And, with regards to North Dakota being a state, rumor has it that Chuck, K9IA, has worked all 53 counties !! 

Vy 73 to you and Karen. Happy Thanksgiving. 

Ralph N8RW 

----- Original Message -----

From: "George Briggs" <k2dm at att.net> 
To: tvarc at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 6:31:44 AM 
Subject: [TVARC] ARRL Sweepstakes 

If memory serves, Pete (K2PS) mentioned at the club meeting that the Sweepstakes contest this past weekend 
would be a good time to collect states for the club’s prestigious WAS standings. Having zero states and no 
prestige, I decided to go for WAS in the contest. Phooey! I still have no prestige. But I do have 49 states 
worked now. Does North Dakota really exist? Chuck (K9IA) what do you think? 
I actually had fun fighting the QRM and repeating my exchange information many times. To think we can actually 
work Alaska and Hawaii with our barely-adequate setups is amazing. And I heard a handful of other TVARC members 
in the contest including K2PS, W4CRV (Chuck), NP2B (John) and KA1AF (Frank), and I worked ND4G (Rich) and 
K4QR (Tony), so the club was well represented. I also have it on good authority that Earle (KM4ISN) found his 
microphone and worked KH7XS in Hawaii to complete his WAS. 
Since I was only looking for states, I passed up a number of contacts and sections. I finished with 159 contacts and 
67 sections, having missed a number of Canadian and California sections. 
All in all a fun time. 
73, 
George K2DM 

______________________________________________________________ 
TVARC mailing list 
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/tvarc 
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm 
Post: mailto:TVARC at mailman.qth.net 

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net 
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/tvarc/attachments/20171120/23f5c0df/attachment.html>