[LCC] THANK YOU KN5O, K1DW, W5FKX and LACC/DE KI6BEN

Mon Oct 26 17:42:43 EDT 2009

Hello Ted and All Of My New Friends In Louisiana   :)

What a delightful weekend.  Thank You SO MUCH to Ted and the entire Louisiana Contest Club.

You guys sure have rolled out the red carpet for an NCCC guy visiting your beautiful state.  All I can say is, when you come to California, you simply must come and visit me, and I'll take you to visit my friends at the K6LRG Contest Station in the Livermore Hills...
http://www.largeradio.org

On Saturday, things started off very well, with a warm welcome from Don, W5FKX, on the LACC DX repeater.  I look forward to chatting with Don each morning on the repeater.

As you all know, Ted has a wonderful station, in a beautiful area.  I had hoped for an eyeball QSO, exchange QSL cards, take some photos and I'd be on my way.  With the hospitality of Ted and his wife, as well as Dallas, I couldn't resist staying all day.  Ted didn't have to twist my arm very much to get me to use his sweet FT-1000.  What a nice rig!  Ted and Dallas were very patient, allowing me quite a bit of seat time.  Really fun!

Yesterday was a relaxing slow day for me, where I drove the rental car at a liesurely pace, up to Gulfport, Mississippi.  After taking a few pics of the Navy Seabees base (my older brother was stationed there in a past life), I settled at a nice little seaside park, about two miles West of the lighthouse.  I setup my FT-817 and MP-1 antenna and went to work.  I was not competing mind you, but did hope to make some QRP contacts.  I was delighted to have made QSOs with the following:
DL2ARD
WB6TFD (good friend of mine)
NP2N
4U1UN (DXCC #101 for me)
HC1JQ
LX7I
HI3CCP

The amazing thing is, after that, I ran back to the airport, dropped off the rental car, and brought my whole station back to the hotel inside a small backpack.  HAHAHAHAHA   ;-)

We'll be here until Thursday, working by day and being New Orleans tourists by night.

I'll send pics to you guys, once we get back to Fremont.  For some odd reason, my laptops SDCard reader isn't working (USB buss problem, I guess), so I couldn't pull them out of the camera (I left the cable at home).

I look forward to my next trip to Louisiana.

Have a wonderful day, God Bless and 73s   ;-)

John Vargas
KI6BEN/5
French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisianna

--- On Mon, 10/26/09, Ted Saba <kn5o at bellsouth.net> wrote:

From: Ted Saba <kn5o at bellsouth.net>
Subject: CQWW_SSB - W5RU @ KN5O
To: lcc at louisianacontestclub.org
Cc: "Ward, Dallas K1DW" <K1DW at aol.com>, "Marshall Williams" <k5qe at sabinenet.com>, "JOHN D VARGAS" <webguyjv at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 9:59 AM

HI Guys.. 

Well, I had not intended to put much of an effort 
into this past weekend.. Didn't
think I had much stamina to do it.. I had also 
thought about taking up the invite
I got from Marshall, K5QE, to go to George D.'s 
(NR5M) station outside of
Houston for a real treat at 
a superstation - but the XYL had other plans.. 
Marshall is a great host by the way and VHF 
contesting can be a real challenge
and a ball.. Looking forward to the next one @ 
K5QE.  Looks like NR5M put
up some great numbers.. 

Anyway, Dallas, K1DW joined me on Saturday for a 
romp through 15 and 20
meters.. I also entertained a visitor ham from 
California, KI6BEN, John Vargas
(he and XYL were in New Orleans for an 
upcoming convention and asked if he
could visit).  Of course, I wanted to 
accommodate his request.. And he operated
for 3-4 hours - great OP by the way - took the 
bull by the horns and went for it.
He had a ball.. And we establsihed a great new 
relationship.. 

Had brunch commitment on Sunday - most of the day 
and combined with getting
some sleep on Friday night and Saturday night, put 
in about 29 hours total.. 

Have not submitted log to 3830 yet, nor to CQ.. 
Will do that in a couple of days.
But thought I'd share our results with you as you 
have been kind to do so.. Sorry
many of you could not put the time in as well.. I 
think it would be nice for one
of us to host this event for M/S or M/M to see what 
we can really do from LA.
Of course, I stand ready to do that for any of 
you... Perhaps we can convince Pat
to try sometime at his great station..

So for a non-planned, part-time effort, here are 
our preliminaries...  All 
S&P
except for a brief 10 min run to PY-land on 
10M.  We had 5 dupes.. 15M
was the money band - how nice it was!  80M 
sucked big-time.. Could hear
EU very well on the beverages, but they could not 
hear the US.. Bummer..
And my 160M antenna is down right now, so no 
joy there - not sure there
would have been any anyway.  The calculated 
score below was 
1,628,145 points.. 

73,
Ted
KN5O

CQ-WW-SSB W5RU 2009
Summary
Total QSO :1200 

    Band

      QSO

      Time

      DXCC

      WAZ

    160
    0

    0

    0
    0

    80
    47

    107

    31
    12

    40
    254

    179

    95
    30

    20
    370

    525

    117
    32

    15
    467

    877

    120
    29

    10
    59

    642

    11
    8

    Total
    1195

    2330

    374
    111

Created by SH5 v1.25 (29 November 2007) - rescab.nm.ru 
Sunday, October 25, 
2009, 23:28 

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