The station was W2LV. I met "Amish" sitting comfortably under our tarp.
She was a very nice young lady with red hair and a bright smile.
W2LV and the Sussex County Amateur Radio Club wishes her well in her
journey.
73,
John
N2HMM
>Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:16:23 -0400
>From: "Walter A. Carrington" <wc@mathmicro.com>
>Subject: [VHFcontesting] Good ambassadors.
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>A young woman thru-hiking the Appalachian trail from Georgia to Maine
>writes about how she was treated well by a multiop on the Appalachian
>Trail in the vicinity of the Delaware Water Gap (probably east of DWG).
>Anybody know what station this was?
>"A couple miles in I ran into a bunch of guys at the top of a mountain.
>There was >a tower and the were assembling their own radio tower. They were
very
>sweet and offered me a seat in the shade under their tarp and a cold
>pepsi. They told me how they were in a competition, where the winner
>makes the most contacts with their radios. This team had only five. The
>team on graylock has dozens and they only ever lost three times,
>apparently it was a huge deal. These guys have been doing this for
>longer then I'm old."
>by Amish, trailjournals.com
>
>K1CMF June results,
>87 Qs 63 grids, 5481 points.
>There were Es on 6 most of Saturday and almost all of Sunday.
>Sometimes only 1 or 2 stations were coming through on Es, sometimes
>many. 2 meters was dead.
>
>--Walter, K1CMF
>
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