[WVARC] Ten Meters

Leigh S. Jones kr6x@kr6x.com
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:06:05 -0700


I remember that contest very well.  Before the contest Matt and I
joined in
helping to put the quad up.  Matt and I (perhaps with another
operator) did
the contest from Matt's.  I can tell you that the quad was a very
effective
performer with a solid s-unit edge over Matt's tribander.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Schneider" <schneiderpix@earthlink.net>
To: <wvarc@kkn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [WVARC] Ten Meters


> I don't remember the ZD9, but I'm sure that would stick in my mind,
too, as
> the highlight if I could recall where ZD9 is.  It was fun.  And
about a year
> later the operating location became a swimming pool.
>
> Rob
>
> > From: "Martin Woll" <n6vi@earthlink.net>
> > Reply-To: "Martin Woll" <n6vi@earthlink.net>
> > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:08:52 -0700
> > To: "John Musselman WB6UHF" <wb6uhf@arrl.net>, "WVARC"
<wvarc@kkn.net>
> > Subject: Re: [WVARC] Ten Meters
> >
> > Now that you mention it, John, yes I do.  And to do it up
properly, WA6PNN
> > and I cut bamboo, built a 4-el 10m quad, stuck it on his parents'
roof, and
> > operated the weekend from his back yard.  Highlight was working a
ZD9 that
> > nobody else had nabbed.  What fun!
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Marty N6VI
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Musselman WB6UHF <wb6uhf@arrl.net>
> > To: WVARC <wvarc@kkn.net>
> >
> >> Does anybody remember that the WVARC "invented" the ten-meter
contest?
> >>
> >> John
> >
> >
> >
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