[LCC] Is it time for the Louisiana Contest Club to spread it's wings

Sun Mar 12 09:17:38 CDT 2017

Duane KF5IWE,

Welcome to the Louisiana Contest Club email reflector
and if you joined the club,  thank you for becoming a part of
our young organization

By the way the next LCC meeting will be at the Shreveport HamFest
always an awesome turnout there both for the fest and the Louisiana Contest
Club meeting

And welcome back to Ham Radio, you will find the technology has changed a
lot,
Most of the rigs are much smaller and smarter,
to me the hobby is as much fun as it always has been, if not more so.

A lot of amateurs get their feet wet with contesting during ARRL Field Day,
however there are many opportunities between now and ARRL FD in June

Your timing for adding the rig to your Ford F150 is perfect
as the Louisiana QSO party is a week from Yesterday

You will be sought after if you travel to some of the rarer Parishes
and call cq LAQP a few times

I encourage you to look at the results from the past few years
you can do that here.....
http://laqp.louisianacontestclub.org/scores/2016_laqso_results.htm

As well as take a look at the rules here.....
http://laqp.louisianacontestclub.org/laqso_rules.htm

Make sure if you are planning on submitting your log you either use
computer logging with your lap top
or convert your hand written log to a computer entered one after the
contest unless you just enter it as a check log (no award or certificate
requested)
The guys made that rule at my suggestion after they had  to decipher
scribble from a couple of hand written logs with well over a hundred QSO's
(no fun)

The reason I say your timing is perfect for getting started in contest with
the LAQSO party is most QSO parties are a bit laid back compared to some of
the big contest like ARRL Sweepstakes and the big dx contests
for me they are all fun !

I currently live in North Texas
about a six and a half hour drive from your QTH

But that does not mean I can not mentor you into contesting
and of course I am sure someone closer to you will chime in
with an offer to assist you.

It would probably benefit you to join a local
club as well,  one that has monthly meetings to find someone
you can relate to and elmer you back into our great hobby.

I am currently still building my new antenna farm and shack
hopefully before the end of this summer I will be ready to
invite ops to come play Multiop here at my QTH

Watching and learning at a station that has a multiop team
is one of the best ways to answer a lot of questions and learn the ropes of
contesting.
However if it is one of the big Out for blood we are going to Win events
you may or may not get to operate - but again there are many smaller
contest events
where we would all love to have someone join us (at least I do)

I encourage you to watch the reflector here for invites to those events
and last year we started a tradition here at my new Texas QTH
a Bar B Q, after HamCom

Talk about a neat place to learn and meet fellow hams
HamCom https://www.hamcom.org/ and a Bar B Q afterwards,
you will fill your brain and your tummy

You can watch my station and it's antenna farm grow by following my Blog...
http://sdxa.blogspot.com/

Duane I look forward to meeting you

Cheers!
Steve
KG5VK

http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Att&t Mail Verification <
duanedonovan at att.net> wrote:

> My name id Duane Donovan, KF5IWE. I live in Morganza, which is near New
> Roads. I have been licensed for over 20 years, not active at this time. Are
> yall willing to train a budding contester? I will be putting hf in my
> mobile (F150) in the next 2 or 3 months. Thanks in advance
>  73, Duane KF5IWE
>
>
> On Friday, March 10, 2017 8:55 PM, Don Hill AA5AU <aa5au at bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> I'm good with a FB page. I was not able to access the examples though.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
> *From:* LCC [mailto:lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org] *On Behalf Of *Steve
> Lott
> *Sent:* Friday, March 10, 2017 7:30 AM
> *To:* Contest Club Louisiana
> *Subject:* [LCC] Is it time for the Louisiana Contest Club to spread it's
> wings
>
> Or can we get more people motivated and active ?
>
> One of the biggest challenges of our organization as I see it is
> getting everyone together
>
> We have many members but rarely do we have more than a half dozen at a
> meeting, the exception last year was at the SARA HamFest we had about 24
> folks there, maybe more
>
> What I propose has been brought up once before....
>
> let's build and embrace a public virtual place for members and guest to
> congregate
>
> This idea for some reason was not widely accepted last time I mentioned
> it,  maybe now is the time ?
>
> BTW there are many successful clubs that have done this
> here are just a couple of examples....
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1576440742579802/
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1576440742579802/
> 
> I propose an OPEN FB page
> is an open FB that scary ?
>
> Those that embrace only a closed page limit visibility
> like the St Louis, MO amateur Radio club that is closed and has only 21
> members    21 members is pretty small for St Louis !
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1710274999234372/
>
> If NOT a FB page then maybe a Blog
> like this one..........
> http://sdxa.blogspot.com/
>
> or something else ?
>
> How about meetings at members stations on contest week-ends ?
> not just a handful of ops ONCE a year, I want to see our organization grow
> !
>
> What is wrong with that, are we not a contest club ?
>
> OR what about some virtual online Multi-OP entry's
> in contest that allow them
> ask AA5AU about his journey with a team into doing this
>
> I know there are less than a handful that play most Wednesday's for an
> Hour in the CW OPS Cw test
> it is fun and you don't have to be a QRQ op to play
>
> Ask Marsh KA5M, Dallas K1DW or myself for more info
> on the weekly CW test sessions
>
> Not a CW op then what about a group of us playing in the Phone Fray each
> Tuesday night
> and no I am not saying every Tuesday
>
> Or what about using my station for a week via remote
> and your station next week via remote control
> easily done ask Scott W5WZ and remoting a station
>
> What I am saying is let's generate some ACTIVITY !!!
> otherwise we will be the club that was
>
> *Or maybe LCC is not broken and it is just me, but I am concerned*
>
> Cheers!
> Steve
> KG5VK
>
> http://www.KG5VK.com <http://www.kg5vk.com/>
> My Ham Radio Friends
>
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