John, thanks for providing FOC details. I've heard "CQ FOC" being used
at high speed CW, usually about 35+ wpm, but never knew that high speed
CW isn't what FOC is all about. (Full details about the First Class CW
Operators' Club is at http://www.firstclasscw.org.uk/.)
For the rest of us, there is The Second Class Operators' Club, aka SOC,
http://www.qsl.net/soc/. ;)
--
Matt Lee, WB6BWZ
Atlanta, Georgia USA
<wb6bwz@arrl.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: secc-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Laney
> Sent: Thursday, 05 February, 2004 16:48
> To: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] This weekend's contests
...
> Let me also mention, as a matter of information, that this is
> also the
> weekend for a closed club competition of the FOC CW Club. It
> runs from
> 21 UTC Friday until 21 UTC Sunday and members generally work
> each other
> around 25 khz up on CW on each band 160-10M. The exchange is
> callsign,
> RST, and FOC membership number. This is a 500 member maximum
> invitation
> type club whose members include W4AN, K4BAI, K4OAH, K4UEE,
> N4XP, K2UFT
> and K4EWG in GA and N4KG in AL and K4II in SC. (Sorry to
> anyone I left
> out.) If you hear someone you want to work who is in that
> contest, you
> might get a quick reply and an exchange of RSTs, but stations in rare
> countries or portable operations like ZF2NT, PJ2L, PJ5NA might not
> answer non-members since it would invite a lot more
> non-members to call.
> I hope you won't consider them rude. I always give an RST
> to anyone
> who calls, but understand the problem it might be if I were in a rare
> country.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
> _______________________________________________
> SECC mailing list
> SECC@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/secc
|