Last night I got an email alert advising me that the June edition of the Ottawa Valley Mobile Radio Club Newsletter “The Rambler” was on line and available for downloading. As always I followed the link and downloaded it and imagine my shock when I saw:
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To get some background information on this contest and its importance to me please follow this link.
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To see what I had planned for the 2012 contest please follow this link.
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And to read up on how my operation went for the contest please follow this link.
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I guess its true what they say about if you don’t submit your results that you can’t win. I was using 5w with a handheld running into the Arrow Portable Sat beam and I was using the 3 elements of the 2m part of the beam only. I did have a bit of altitude to help me out but nothing like a SOTA activation or anything like that. There was only one other actual Portable station and I don’t know what he was using but I am very suprised by the longest QSO award as the other station was a rover.
I had expected that the longest QSO award would of gone to a person who had a bit more than 5w horsepower and more than 3 elements in the beam and a lot more altitude than the 4 feet that the camera tripod held the beam off the ground.
However the two pieces of wallpaper were not the reason for participating in this contest… It was to honour the memory of an old friend and I think that it was a success…
Thanks to the OVMRC for keeping the memory alive…
73bob
Tags: amateur radio, amateur radio contesting, Larry Wilcox Memorial Contest, Ottawa Valley Mobile Radio Club, OVMRC, OVMRC 2m Contest
June 14, 2012 at 7:07 pm |
With all this “wallpaper” you’re collecting these days, you better start negotiating with Liz for a bigger shack !!
Well Done Bob!!
June 14, 2012 at 8:06 pm |
Well some mention was made about the spare bedroom now thats its clear that my elder daughter will not be moving back home… About 4 years ago it was my shack…Negotiations are under way but her sewing machine magically appeared in the room so I think I’m stuck in the basement for a while yet
Thanks for suggesting it though…
On a serious note about the contests though….
I am wondering about the amount of people not submitting scores or participating… I have been doing great with scores that should not be doing so great…
73bob