Thanks a great deal, Mike. I really feel honored. Hopefully you will find
that the book gets pretty dramatic with a tense atmosphere at the end. This
WRTC had a lot of great things in it, and I hope to have captured them in
the story. I keep telling people that the goal was to tell the story on two
different planes: one that an experienced contest operator will enjoy; and
one that a total newbie, or one who has never heard of ham radio, will find
enthralling.
By the way, I operated (competed in) the 2000 WRTC and was a referee in the
2002 Helsinki event. So I tried to capture what the operators feel in this
pressure cooker. Also, I'm battling through the virtual re-building of my
contest station following two devastating storms in the summer of 2014.
Hopefully, I'll be back at full-scale by the fall of this year.
73, Jim N3BB
At 06:05 PM 5/13/2016 -0300, you wrote:
I bought it on a whim the other night (from amazon.ca) and have had a hard
time putting it down ! I find myself even on coffee breaks picking up my
smartphone to try to get another ½-chapter in.
A real good read, even though I have read a lot online about WRTC2014, N3BB
really brings the event alive with his writing style & more details of
pretty much everything.
Great job !
I am abt 70% done and even though I already know the outcome, I can?t wait
to read the final 30% of the book.
Mike VE9AA
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB
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