Thank You!
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Greetings:
First off, I'd like to thank all of you that participated in recent TARA PSK Rumble, "The Fall Classic." This rumble was our largest to date and that is directly due to each of you. Please keep in ind that we're still developing this rumble to make it better for those that participate. In order to do this we depend heavily on all of you. We need to hear as much input, good/bad, so that we can make the changes that will continue to make this an exciting contest for you, the participants! We've always said right from the beginning that this rumble is your rumble, and we mean it. Yes, TARA sponsors this event, but without all of you...we have nothing! So, please take a few minutes and drop us an e-mail on what you'd like to see in the upcoming rumbles. I'd like to be perfectly up front with you folks, we need your help! We need assistance from any of you that could help us spread the word of this event. Ernie, WM2U, has spent hundreds of hours working on this rumble format and that doesn't enclude the amount of time he spends sending out notices to the many world-wide publications that each of you read and Internet sites too. If you could help us I'd like to hear from you. This was the first time for the 'new' Team Challenge format and I think it went extremly well. We've already noted a few things that need attention but on the overall we were pleased, how about you? Please tell us what you think of the team challenge? I'd like to thank all of the teams that participated and the banter here on this news group and a few others made the Rumble a lot more fun. I'd like to personally thank the amount of support that we received from the PODXS 070 Club. As many of you know, they sponsored a couple of teams from their large organization of PSK'ers. Plus the PODXS boys have done it again. This is now a collectors item. Checkout: http://hometown.aol.com/n3dqu/podxs.htm Many thanks to the guys at WorldRadio Magazine. Each member of the winning TEAM CHALLENGE, and the Top Placed winner in the Novice category, will each receive a One (1) year FREE subscription. And then we had Jim, VE9WH, who personally donated 1 Bag of New Brunswick Dulse, that will be awarded to the First Place Winner of the "Normal Category." We certainly appreciate all of these offers. One thing I'd like to see is for a lot of you to take the challenge back to your local radio clubs. I'd like to see more of a presence from clubs such as the Anatolian Radio Amateurs Association Trabzon - TA7KB, who worked the contest for the very first time. There are a lot of clubs from around the world with callsigns and we'd like for you to get your local club involved and put your club callsign on-the- air for all to see! In closing I must take a few lines and let you know about TARA's secret weapon. Ever since we first sponsored the Rumble 3 years ago, we knew it would be a hit, if for nothing else because of the person that keeps us all in line, Ernie Mills, WM2U A.K.A "Red Fred". This guy is one of the hardest working guys that I've ever had the pleasure to work with. As for myself, I'm a great procrastinator which I know drives Ernie NUTS but he somehow puts up with me. His attention to detail is second to none. Where he gets his drive from remains a mystery to me! I've known him on many of nights to sit at the keyboard and sift through 40, 50 and even up to 70 e-mails with many needing replies. Does he ever complain, nope! Does he ever ask for anything in compensation, nope! All he ever asks for is for all of us to enjoy the fruits of his labor. You cannot imagine just how happy this guy gets when he gets a few e-mails telling him "Ernie, we enjoyed the Rumble and we'll be looking forward to the next one!" Something as simply as that keeps my friend hard at work. Could you do me a favor. Could you let my friend, and your friend too, know that he has given his personal best, he's given us 100% in every Rumble. You can e-mail him at emills@... If you don't hear from me again, you'll know Ernie whooped the hell out of me for asking you to do this! He's very modest!! Thank You! Bill Eddy - NY2U President of Troy ARA ny2u@...
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