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  • 11/17/2003 | N7HJ

    Bummer contest this year. Was looking forard to it. Gave out 30 contacts but then an emergency cropped up. Came back restarted program but got a glitch and whole LOG went Bye Bye. UGH.

    End of contest for me. Read More

  • 11/17/2003 | KE4VH

    Thanks to all who struggled to pull my puny signal out of the static this year. My regular sized G5RV had come down a few months ago, and I wasn't able to get it back up in time for the contest. Had to settle for a "junior" G5RV (40 through 10) at le... Read More

  • 11/17/2003 | N7VMR

    I was having great fun, Until I was notified I had to go from Billings, MT to Great Falls, MT on Sunday.

    I was to retreive my daughters stolen vehicle :-(

    I wish to thank those that help me get started this year.

    Jim Fuller
    N7VMR
    MT SEC Read More

  • My wife thinks the hamshack desk is messy?

    11/17/2003 | KN3A

    This was the first contest I've been in for years because I had taken a 7 yr. absence from ham radio. I decided to try QRP this year for the challenge of it, and greatly surpassed my expectations. I was mostly on 40 and 80 meters and in just over 10 ho... Read More

  • N4SL's first steelhead, probably SS related somehow.

    11/16/2003 | N4SL

    The Sunday solar flare was a first for me in a contest. I yammered with some locals for a while, it was a nice break but the conditions never really recovered up here in 'suffering sevens' land (near Seattle in WWA).

    My picture shows the first steelhea... Read More

  • Cabot Tower, site of VO1AA.

    11/13/2003 | VO1AA

    The NPR "Car Talk" guys, Tom and Ray, probably would call it a "historic, folkloric" ARRL November Sweepstakes. For the third year in a row, I operated the CW weekend from Canada--this time from Newfoundland.

    Thanks to the assistance of Paul Piercey, V... Read More

  • 11/13/2003 | KS1F

    Another great contest. CW SS is about the only weekend each year that I'm able to dedicate to ham radio, other than Dayton. The day before the contest, our contractor called and said they were going to start putting the new roof on my house Saturday to... Read More

  • 11/12/2003 | KE2SX

    Well, this is the main event of the year for me, and of course I had to work 3 pm to 11 pm both days. Since I hadn't finished installing the HF rig in the car, I took my FT-817, Z-11 tuner, and a gell cell to work with me, and used the 20 meter Ham Sti... Read More

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