I was self spotting and moving between bands on FT4. I saw this UR guy spotted but couldn’t hear him. At all. So I worked AC0W and AE0EE on CW. I also nearly blew up my radio when AB1OC went from 10m to 12m (where my EFHW does not tune) but the quick overs made the contact trouble free! I made a little over 100 contacts. FT4 is not that active but was the only mode I hadn’t been handing out VOTA points on during the year so gave it a go. Also had N2ZZ and N3KN in there on FT4! Agreed! Fun time. David From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> On Behalf Of k5ur--- via arrl-odv Sent: Monday, December 18, 2023 1:16 PM To: Tharp, Mark, KB7HDX (VD, NW) <kb7hdx@gmail.com> Cc: arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:35428] Re: Red Badge Day <<<remote on the East coast>> Oh, geez.....[Emoji] BTW, I want to give a "shout out" to Carl, K9LA, for his activity from W1AW/9 (Ind) this week. I've worked them on 160 thru 10 meters this past week and Carl has been the operator a lot. 73, Rick - K5UR On Monday, December 18, 2023 at 12:07:58 PM CST, Mark J Tharp <kb7hdx@gmail.com<mailto:kb7hdx@gmail.com>> wrote: Agree. It was a hoot. W6RGG K5UR N3KN N2ZZ K0AIZ K9LA K5UZ AC0W WB4RHQ NP3O AA1SU W5XX K2DP AE0EE K8TE W2KFV N4MM all in the log. I heard Scott on 20 working people, and I heard Ryan also but never found them or they never found me. Jo worked W7VO also. That was funny, I was listening to her run from a remote on the East coast and heard Mike calling her so I had her stop and work him. Never would have heard him from Portland in the pile. She ran 399 Qs in 3-1/2 hours. Non stop. How can you not love Ham radio right? On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 9:53 AM k5ur--- via arrl-odv <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>> wrote: Thanks to all who worked Red Badge Day! I worked a number of Board members, a few SM's, and overall had a little over 600 contacts. I think Bill, AC0W, had 700 or so. I heard Director Norris and that HDX guy a lot, too. It was a great display of ARRL activity and leadership! 73, Rick - K5UR _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org<mailto:arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv