Greg,
This shows just how classy you are. I wouldn’t have cared whether I was
ginning up the contacts or was Jacking (Daniels) them up or even Killiansing (Red)
them up!
With the recent discussion of emergency power
by the Board family, I guess I finally need to break down and buy a generator! This has been one of my “round tuit”
projects for several years, anyway.
73,
Jim Weaver,
Director, Great Lakes
Division ARRL; http://www.arrl.org/
5065 Bethany Rd., Mason,
OH 45040
Tel.: 513-459-0142;
E-mail: k8je@arrl.org
ARRL:
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MEMBERS:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Milnes
[mailto:w7oz@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005
9:32 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:13095] Re:
Public Awareness Day EPOE
I worked all weekend long on emergency power. That’s all I had in
the RV parked in rural Eastern Washington for the Salmon Run Contest
(Washington State QSO Party). A few stations said they were participating
in the EPOE event. I suppose I should have said that in more of my QSOs
but I didn’t. I was too busy trying to gin up contacts.
We were operating from the side of the road and right on top of the county line
(border between two sparsely populate counties). By running signals from
the county line we got twice as many points and lots of folks seemed to like
getting “two counties for the price of one!” Unfortunately
our SB-220 sometimes caused the air conditioner to cycle on and off and on and
off. We also had to disconnect the RV speakers which were affected by the
RF. The three of us from Oregon had a good time though. The total
round trip from the Portland area was 755 miles (at 8 mpg plus 25 hours of 7 KW
generator time, it wasn’t cheap).
73/Greg W7OZ
From: Bruce
Frahm KØBJ [mailto:bfrahm@st-tel.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005
3:01 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:13084] Re:
Public Awareness Day EPOE
Coy, K0FJ and I were gonna do it, but he tuned around
at 9AM and had a similar experience to yours so we didn't run and get the
generator. However when I worked W6C they staed they'd logged quite a few
emerg. power stations, and we hrd W1AW comment that half their Qs today were
emerg. powered ones.
(Karlyn and I had a cultural afternoon -- there was a
"Mud Bog" being run in trench silos only 3 miles from our QTH.
nwKS has an interest group. The wimpier trucks compete for distance, and the
larger classes can usually complete the course so it's a timed event for
them. We have a hard time keeping him out of puddles with his trike when
it rains, so I KNEW he'd enjoy the afternoon)
Bruce