<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">something to consider doing today.....<br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><a href="http://www.KG5VK.com" target="_blank">http://www.KG5VK.com</a><br>My Ham Radio Friends<br><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Conwell</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@conwellpdx.com">bill@conwellpdx.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:42 PM<br>Subject: [CQ-Contest] Saturday: Friendship Radiosport Games: K7J, K7C, K7K, and K7R<br>To: <a href="mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com">cq-contest@contesting.com</a><br><br><br>On Saturday, teams visiting from Russia, Japan, and Canada (and the US) will<br>
be competing in the contesting portion of the 2016 Friendship Radiosport<br>
Games (FRG).  With special callsigns K7J, K7C, K7K, and K7R, they'll compete<br>
both before and during the NAQP SSB contest, rotating among stations of four<br>
Oregon hams.  (The Willamette Valley DX Club is hosting the FRG this year.)<br>
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If you're able to give these visiting hams a QSO, please do so.  (They'll<br>
start at 1700z, an hour before the NAQP, to allow time for some CW<br>
operation.)<br>
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The FRG teams will also compete in an amateur radio direction finding<br>
competition (on Friday), and a high speed telegraphy contest (on Sunday).<br>
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(London odds-makers report that the Russian team is the early favourite as<br>
overall winner, based on its past domination of FRG events.)<br>
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The first Friendship Radiosport Games were held in 1989, in Khabarovk, and<br>
have been held at various other Pacific rim venues since then.  See<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Radiosport_Games" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Friendship_Radiosport_Games</a> for additional<br>
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Tnx/73,<br>
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/Bill, K2PO<br>
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Portland, OR<br>
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'Just kidding about the London odds-makers .<br>
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