My First SS: 1969 as WN4JYB Knight-Kit T60 transmitter with 3 crystals (one each in the Novice 80, 40, and 15 meter segments) Hammarlund HQ-110 receiver W3DZZ all band dipole On a good day, the old T
Author: james.nail at earthlink.net (james.nail@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:31:22 -0500
I remember the 1969 Novice Roundup as WN2MBP in 1969... Heathkit HW-16 with a few crystals as well. Can't even remember what score came out of that 'contest'. It was a real joy working others with th
Author: rhackler at mindspring.com (Roger L. Hackler)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 07:30:44 -0500
Jim: I'm happy to hear that you did the 1969 novice roundup in 1969, instead of in 1968 or in 1970. Was your score better than this years SSCW submission? :) Roger, KN6RO --Original Message-- From: s
Author: thompson at mindspring.com (David Thompson)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:22:31 -0500
Since the phone SS is coming up I remember my first SS. I was 14 years and 10 months old (young) and had my General for all of 5 months. In 1958 the Phone SS was nearly 100% AM not SSB. I think I kne
You shouldn't need dupes sheets with a memory that good !!!!! Gordon N4LR My question is how did you remember all of that ? Dan/W4NTI _______________________________________________ SECC mailing list
I used paper dupe sheets until I got my first laptop for contest logging in 1993. I never got more than about 3 QSOs behind on the logsheet as I tried to keep it up to date continuously. I used to ta
Back in those days we developed a skill no longer seen in today's contesters. Sending CW, usually using a Vibroplex of some description, while holding a pencil in the hand. I used the middle two fing
I learned to contest during my first year at Georgia Tech back in 1982. We had a computer program that ran on the Cyber mainframe computer that was very sophisticated in exchange entry, duping and mu