Congratulations Steve! Bonnie and I celebrated our 39th anniversary on
Sept 6th. She also helps me log, makes iced tea, coffee, meals, snacks,
brings me a brew - and her call is WB2ALQ! And she understands RFI
too. I'm a lucky guy
73, Frank K2SQS
Jerry Siegmund wrote:
> Congrats Steve.. The 'Gud Ones' are Hard to Find! I just celebrated my
> 5th on Aug 30th.. She told me last year.. I should get back into Ham
> Radio (after a 15yr absence!) Wow.. Shes a 'Keeper Too'! Like Marsha,
> Wendy is not interested (yet!) in getting a Ticket.. She always knows
> where I am.. and the only comment I ever get is 'Hey'!.. (the RFI thru
> her clock-radio at 6:00AM Moon Rise trying 2M EME !) but she takes it
> for awhile.. then just 'gets Up'! 73 to You and Marsha..
> Jerry VE6CPP
> DN39or
>
> Steve Tripp (K1IIG) wrote:
>
>> I got married to a terrific lady on September 6th, the week before the
>> contest, at St. Clements Castle on the Ct. River with many ham friends,
>> normal friends (lol), family and Veteran friends. My wife to be, found a
>> person in Canada that makes custom wedding cake toppings. She took pictures
>> of both my Rohn45 towers and sent them to him. He made 2 EXACT replicas of
>> both towers and stacked antennas using tinned wire. He even made the cross
>> braces on the tower and had a base with stand down arms to support the
>> towers, it was an amazing piece of work and both for $50 shipped. This would
>> make a great inexpensive gift for any ham, wedding or not. You can reach
>> Darrell at vo1mds@ hotmail.com he would be thrilled to hear from hams. So
>> where did we go on our honeymoon, you guessed it, straight to the radio room
>> for the contest. She loves listening to ham radio but does not want to
>> become one and always takes care of my meals during the contests. She is
>> beautiful inside and out and never complains about the radio, what is better
>> than this.
>>
>> Contest was great even without any openings and my best showing of any
>> previous contests. Thanks to all the polite, skilled contesters who made
>> this so enjoyable. Oh, I do plan on taking Marsha on a real honeymoon less
>> radios...hihi
>>
>> Unofficial Score:
>>
>> Band QSOs X pt = QSO pts. X Grids = Points
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> 50 102 1 102 22 2244
>> 144 95 1 95 24 2280
>> 222 40 2 80 15 1200
>> 432 53 2 106 20 2120
>> 903 13 3 39 8 312
>> 1296 27 3 81 11 891
>> 2304 11 4 44 7 308
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> TOTALS 341 547 107 58529
>>
>> Claimed score = 58529
>>
>> Steve, K1IIG FN31NL
>>
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