Back in the 70s...W0EEE was very active on the bands and in contest. So
was W0QQQ from
Kansas State University. My point here is that W0QQQ could almost break
your arm after about 10 hours of contesting. EEE is very short....QQQ
takes a long times to send No memory keyers. No punch tape. Just a ten
tec KR5 pounding out code. When I graduated from KSU and got a job...one
of the first purchases I made was an Autek Memory Keyer.
Lee - K0WA Go Cats - beat ISU, NU, and MU
At 10:17 PM 11/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Speaking of callsigns which are hard to decipher, my worst experience came
>back in the late seventies (when I was at college in Arkansas) that I took
>a trip up to visit a buddy at the University of Missouri in Rolla, MO
>. Jeff was not a ham, but had hung out with K5GO and I and had absorbed a
>lot of "contesting culture" at the original N5DX so he knew I'd be
>interested in trying out the club station, particularly since it was ARRL
>DX weekend.
>
>The UMR club station was (and still is) W0EEE which was equipped with a
>Drake C-Line, SB-220 and (among other antennas) an 80M flat top dipole
>stretched between two 160' campus power station smokestacks. Man, I could
>hardly wait.
>
>It didn't take long before I came to discover how difficult it was to get
>a callsign full of "Es" through a 80M CW pileup. Signal strength was not
>the issue - the callsign simply had no "inertia" to it. Sending the call
>normally simply did not work. The only thing that worked was "di dah dah,
>dah dah dah dah dah, dit (pause), dit (pause), dit". It was humiliating...
>
>After two hours, pizza sounded a lot better than low band frustration.
>
>Dave/K8CC
>
>
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