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Re: CQWW DX Contest
From:
Kim Elmore <[log in to unmask]>
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OU Amateur Radio Club <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:39:20 -0500
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If you make any effort at all, you should be able to work DXCC in CQWW.
With LoTW, I'll bet you'll pretty much be able to confirm it, too!

Good Luck!

73,

Kim N5OP (who will, weather permitting, be working on antennas this weekend)

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012, Carey McCachern wrote:

> We are using the computer Connor brought for SCR; I don't know the
> passwords to anything else.  As for software, we downloaded N1MM, and
> SCR-Log.  I like N3FJP, but it isn't free.  I will go up to the station
> before the contest and find software.
>
> I operated for a few hours last year in CQWW, and I got about 40 DXCC's
> with a dipole at 25 feet.  I'm sure we will be able to rack up QSOs with
> the SteppIR.
>
> We will be operating as W5TC.
>
> -Carey McCachern
> N5RM
>
> On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Peter Laws <[log in to unmask] <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > On 10/24/12 09:09, Carey McCachern wrote:
> >> The CQWW contest starts this Friday at 7pm local. This contest is a
> great
> >> opportunity to work DX and learn about propagation. If you are
> interested
> >> in participating, for any amount of time, let me know.
> >
> > I've not been up to the attic in a while.  What are we (W5TC) currently
> using for logging?  Is it the Dell that Gary and I ... acquired?
> >
> > Maybe I should just wander up there ...
> >
> >
> > I operated for a bit in CQ WW back in '09 or whenever it was that Matt
> N0EYE (NWS, now in KC) and Kyle AE5KP (RCS) got all the pieces assembled
> into a working station (but before the furniture!).  I can assure you that
> the SteppIR works just fine even at 100 W.  :-)
> >
> > I assume you'll be operating as W5TC?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Peter Laws / N5UWY
> > National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
> > University of Oklahoma Information Technology
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> > College of Architecture, Regional and City Planning, MRCP '16
> >
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