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<DIV>John,</DIV>
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<DIV>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..</DIV>
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<DIV>73 BCNU de Dallas k1DW</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 10/26/2009 4:43:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
webguyjv@sbcglobal.net writes:</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Hello Ted and All Of My New Friends In Louisiana
:)<BR><BR>What a delightful weekend. Thank You SO MUCH to Ted and
the entire Louisiana Contest Club.<BR><BR>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...<BR>http://www.largeradio.org<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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!<BR><BR>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:<BR>DL2ARD<BR>WB6TFD
(good friend of mine)<BR>NP2N<BR>4U1UN (DXCC #101 for
me)<BR>HC1JQ<BR>LX7I<BR>HI3CCP<BR><BR>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 ;-)<BR><BR>We'll be here until Thursday, working
by day and being New Orleans tourists by night.<BR><BR>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).<BR><BR>I look forward to my next trip to Louisiana.<BR><BR>Have a
wonderful day, God Bless and 73s ;-)<BR><BR>John
Vargas<BR>KI6BEN/5<BR>French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisianna<BR><BR>---
On <B>Mon, 10/26/09, Ted Saba <I><kn5o@bellsouth.net></I></B>
wrote:<BR>
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Ted Saba <kn5o@bellsouth.net><BR>Subject: CQWW_SSB - W5RU @
KN5O<BR>To: lcc@louisianacontestclub.org<BR>Cc: "Ward, Dallas K1DW"
<K1DW@aol.com>, "Marshall Williams" <k5qe@sabinenet.com>,
"JOHN D VARGAS" <webguyjv@sbcglobal.net><BR>Date: Monday,
October 26, 2009, 9:59 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>HI Guys.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Well, I had not intended to put much of
an effort into this past weekend.. Didn't</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>think I had much stamina to do it..
I had also thought about taking up the invite</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I got from Marshall, K5QE, to go to
George D.'s (NR5M) station outside of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Houston for a real treat at
a superstation - but the XYL had other plans.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Marshall is a great host by the way and
VHF contesting can be a real challenge</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and a ball.. Looking forward to the next
one @ K5QE. Looks like NR5M put</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>up some great numbers.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Anyway, Dallas, K1DW joined me on
Saturday for a romp through 15 and 20</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>meters.. I also entertained a visitor ham
from California, KI6BEN, John Vargas</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(he and XYL were in New Orleans for
an upcoming convention and asked if he</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>could visit). Of course, I
wanted to accommodate his request.. And he operated</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>for 3-4 hours - great OP by the way
- took the bull by the horns and went for it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>He had a ball.. And we establsihed a
great new relationship.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Had brunch commitment on Sunday - most of
the day and combined with getting</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>some sleep on Friday night and Saturday
night, put in about 29 hours total.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Have not submitted log to 3830 yet, nor
to CQ.. Will do that in a couple of days.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But thought I'd share our results with
you as you have been kind to do so.. Sorry</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>many of you could not put the time in as
well.. I think it would be nice for one</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>of us to host this event for M/S or M/M
to see what we can really do from LA.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Of course, I stand ready to do that for
any of you... Perhaps we can convince Pat</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>to try sometime at his great
station..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So for a non-planned, part-time effort,
here are our preliminaries..</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>. All
S&P</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>except for a brief 10 min run to PY-land
on 10M. We </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>had 5 dupes..
15M</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>was the money band - how nice it
was! 80M sucked </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>big-time.. Could
hear</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>EU very well on the beverages, but they
could not </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>hear the US..
Bummer..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And my 160M antenna is down right now, so
no </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>joy there - not sure
there</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>would have been any anyway. The
calculated </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>score below </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>was 1,628,145 points.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>73,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ted</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>KN5O</FONT></DIV>
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<H3><I><FONT color=#0000ff>CQ-WW-SSB W5RU 2009</FONT></I></H3>
<H3><B>Summary</B></H3>
<DIV><STRONG>Total QSO :1200 </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT color=white><STRONG>WAZ</STRONG></FONT></DIV></TD>
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<TD bgColor=#bbbbbb align=right><FONT color=black><STRONG>160</STRONG></FONT></TD>
<TD>0</TD>
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<TD>0</TD>
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<TD>0</TD>
<TD>0</TD>
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<TD bgColor=#bbbbbb align=right><FONT color=black><STRONG>80</STRONG></FONT></TD>
<TD>47</TD>
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<TD><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></TD>
<TD><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></TD>
<TD>107</TD>
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<TD>31</TD>
<TD>12</TD>
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<TD bgColor=#bbbbbb align=right><FONT color=black><STRONG>40</STRONG></FONT></TD>
<TD>254</TD>
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<TD>179</TD>
<TD><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></TD>
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<TD><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></TD>
<TD><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></TD>
<TD>95</TD>
<TD>30</TD>
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<TD bgColor=#bbbbbb align=right><FONT color=black><STRONG>20</STRONG></FONT></TD>
<TD>370</TD>
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<TD>525</TD>
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<TD>117</TD>
<TD>32</TD>
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<TD bgColor=#bbbbbb align=right><FONT color=black><STRONG>15</STRONG></FONT></TD>
<TD>467</TD>
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<TD>877</TD>
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<TD>120</TD>
<TD>29</TD>
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<TD bgColor=#bbbbbb align=right><FONT color=black><STRONG>10</STRONG></FONT></TD>
<TD>59</TD>
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<TD>642</TD>
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<TD>11</TD>
<TD>8</TD>
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<TD bgColor=#bbbbbb align=right><FONT color=black><STRONG>Total</STRONG></FONT></TD>
<TD>1195</TD>
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<TD>2330</TD>
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<TD>374</TD>
<TD>111</TD>
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