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

Fri Oct 30 07:02:58 EDT 2009

John,

It was great to meet and contest with you at Ted's.  Thanks for the  
pictures of NOLA.  The recovery still goes on and will continue. Hope you  can 
come back and visit again...  and hope we can visit you and the NCCC  guys in 
CA..

73 BCNU  de Dallas k1DW

In a message dated 10/26/2009 4:43:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
webguyjv at sbcglobal.net writes:

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_ 
(http://rescab.nm.ru/)  
Sunday, October 25, 2009, 23:28  

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