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Re: Congrats to Alan - KA5VZG
Alan - KA5VZG
Only happened because Stan, W9SMR/9, persisted that I re-advertise and try again after a terrible start on Oct. 1.
Special thanks also to CA/Bob, KK6KMU for guarding and coordinating the west, "[perfect attendance", and especially for setting up the 24/7 endorsement Chat on this page. That Chat made life super easy. Also a main driver in the east, GA/Bob, K4VBM, early, persistent, all over the bands, and lots of "Chat". Of course, thanks to all who participated, who made those dark hours quite a bit brighter. I was lucky, but quite a few are very close. If you're pretty close, use this page, set up another "adventure". 73, Alan, KA5VZG 070# 1509 LONP# 213
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Re: Congrats to Alan - KA5VZG
stan W9SMR
I can only echo Rick's praise for the thought and execution of the clever plan to beat down those lonely, missing mid-night slots. Alan was always there and Bob, KK6KMU and Bob, K4VBM were just as excited to make this work. We often saw and worked Milt, N6MG, Randy, W4RTT and Don, KC4OBB as well as a few others.
It almost worked for me. I needed 25 mid-night slots and grabbed 23 of them. I am missing only two due to careless planning on my part. Those will be easy to polish off now that I am almost there. Thank you Alan, Bob and Bob. 73, Hoot, Hoot as W4RTT would say! Stan W9SMR ________________________________________ From: main@070Club.groups.io <main@070Club.groups.io> on behalf of Rick - N7WE <n7we1980@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2020 8:11 AM To: main@070Club.groups.io Subject: [070Club] Congrats to Alan - KA5VZG I've been following the adventures (and chats) of the group that have been pursuing the 24/7 Endorsement at all hours of the night. This morning I see by the Progress Checker that Alan - KA4VZG is the first of the bunch to complete that crazy endorsement! Congrats Alan! Well done. It is a major accomplishment and takes dedication and coffee...lots of coffee! There are several more who are pushing to complete it. Who will be next? -- Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Re: Great Pumpkin 160 M Sprint Results
My congrats to Stan W9SMR/9 for his Top Dawg in the Great Pumpkin AND simultaneously completing the Top Band Endorsement - on a "jury-rigged" Inverted L! Way to go Stan! Awesome!
-- Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Congrats to Alan - KA5VZG
I've been following the adventures (and chats) of the group that have been pursuing the 24/7 Endorsement at all hours of the night. This morning I see by the Progress Checker that Alan - KA4VZG is the first of the bunch to complete that crazy endorsement! Congrats Alan! Well done. It is a major accomplishment and takes dedication and coffee...lots of coffee! There are several more who are pushing to complete it. Who will be next?
-- Rick - N7WE 070 - #1602
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Re: Great Pumpkin 160 M Sprint Results
Thanks for the Great Pumpkin Contest. I haven't worked any contests in a while and was happy for the 3rd place considering I only worked it for 2 hours!
Randy W4RTT
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Re: Band Plan
I think this weekend was an excellent demonstration that the IARU Regions need to do better coordination on band plans for digital operation in the HF bands.
I was very frustrated in trying to maintain a QSO with WB2MLY on 7.072 MHz, because we were getting QRM from voice stations in Europe working the CW SSB contest. Out of curiosity, I looked up the IARU Region 1 band plan for 40 meters (see https://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/hf_r1_bandplan.pdf) . It reads: 7.040 - 7.047 Preferred mode: Narrow band modes , Usage: Digimodes 7.047 - 7.050 Preferred mode: Narrow band modes, Usage: Digimodes, automatically controlled data stations (unattended) 7.060 - 7.100 Preferred mode: All modes, Usage : SSB contest preferred (7.070 "Digital voice Centre of Activity") 7.130 - 7.175 Preferred mode: All modes, Usage: SSB contest preferred (7.165 "Image Centre of Activity") 7.175 - 7.200 Preferred mode: All modes, Usage: SSB contest preferred, Priority for intercontinental activity. So while those of us in IARU Region 2 observe 7.000 to 7.125 as an RTTY/data band, and 7.072 as a PSK-31 domain, that is not the case for our European/African neighbors. Fortunately, I haven't experienced a lot of SSB QRM on 7.072 except on international contest weekends, but it's a discrepancy I was not aware of until tonight. I mention it because others may be as unaware as I was. Mike W4BZM
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Great Pumpkin 160 M Sprint Results
stan W9SMR
This year we hoped that 160M conditions would improve and participation would increase, and our hopes were rewarded! This year there were 24 logs submitted with 8 High Power, 9 Medium Power, 4 Low Power and 3 QRP. 16 States and 1 Province were worked. This is up significantly from last year’s 11 logs. Top Dawg and 1st in Medium Power 50W was Stan, W9SMR/9 of Fremont, IN, with 21 QSOs, 13 states and 315 points. This is a rare win for Stan. He credits his Jury-rigged Inv-L for his success. That, and a successful push to grab the rare Top Band 20 Endorsement. Second Place in Medium Power 50W was John, KC2RXS, of Riner, VA with 18 QSOs, 12 states and 252 points. Third Place was Randy, W4RTT of Covington, KY with 17 QSOs, 11 states and 221 points. First Place in the High Power 100W category was Bob, KF3AA, of Huntington, MD with 19 QSOs, 12 states and 266 points. Bob was Top Dawg and first Place in the Jay Hudak 80M Sprint this year. With this he will continue his climb to the RC3 Championship. Second Place in the High Power 100W category was Tom, W8TOM of Atlanta, MI with 15 QSOs, 11 states and 195 points. Third Place was Charles, VA3TTB of Holland Landing, ON with 12 QSOs, 9 states and 120 points. Special mention for Barry, VA7GEM who did his best to break thru the noise from BC. Don’t give up, Barry, better days are ahead. Thanks for being in there. Repeating his 2019 First Place win in the Low Power 25 W category was Steve, W3HF of Collegeville, PA with 10 QSOs, 8 states and 100 points. Steve is also hotly chasing the RC3 Championship. Second Place in Low Power 25W was recent new member Rick, WA8UMT of Novi, MI with 6 QSOs, 5 states and 36 points. Third Place was recent new member, David, WA3LXD of Ft. McCoy, FL with 4 QSOs, 4 states and 20 points. Second Place QRP was non-member Joseph, W1TW of Attleboro, MA with 4 QSOs, 3 states and 16 points. In Third Place was Peter, NN9K of Colona, IL with 3 QSOs, 3 states and 12 points. He was the first place QRP winner in this year’s Jay Hudak 80M Sprint. He is also on the short list of RC2 Championship. The PODXS “All Amateurs Welcome” policy continues to enhance our overall experience. Special thanks are due to Steve, AA8SW of Cincinnati, OH; Homer, N5JDT of Alamogordo, NM; and Joseph, W1TW of Attleboro, MA. Thank you all for participating and we look forward to greeting you soon as a new members. Note that the Top Dawg Certificate and Rollo Dog Tag will be reserved exclusively for members. We again are deeply indebted to David, K9DWR, who established the upload link and parsed the contest results. Thank You, David!
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Re: 24/7 Endorsement - - Week Three - hour slots 0800z and 0900Z Begins tonight
I have been remiss and missed a bunch of these slots. I'll be trying to get some 05,06 and 0700 contacts over the weekend and next week.
I'll set an alarm and be up most of the night tonight starting at 0500. And back on for the 08,09, maybe the 1000 slots.
Thanks for helping out with getting the squares filled in.
73
Dave
KB3RAN
1692
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Motyl KK6KMU <bobmotyl@...> To: main@070Club.groups.io Sent: Sat, Oct 24, 2020 2:29 pm Subject: Re: [070Club] 24/7 Endorsement - - Week Three - hour slots 0800z and 0900Z Begins tonight Well I guess I ran out of steam and missed the 10:00Z hour last night. I will make it tonight seeing its our last night of 24/7 Endorsement unless someone has a plan.
Thanks to all who participated. Alan, Bob and Stan almost always there. Appreciate you taking the time. Bob KK6KMU -- Dave H KB3RAN 1692/381
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Re: 24/7 Endorsement - - Week Three - hour slots 0800z and 0900Z Begins tonight
Bob Motyl KK6KMU
Well I guess I ran out of steam and missed the 10:00Z hour last night. I will make it tonight seeing its our last night of 24/7 Endorsement unless someone has a plan.
Thanks to all who participated. Alan, Bob and Stan almost always there. Appreciate you taking the time. Bob KK6KMU
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Welcome 2799
Please join me in welcoming new member(s): 2799 SP9MRP Mario Jim K5SPExecutive Director/Membership Director -- Jim, K5SP #483 Executive Director/Member Services Director
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Re: ZL7DX and Hole 13
If &when he gets on PSK, it will be a prize for many members ! Jerry n9avy
On Friday, October 23, 2020, 08:00:42 PM CDT, Scotty W7PSK <w7psk@...> wrote: Recieved a note from Chris. He has decided to live on Chatham permenantly and has moved everything to the island. He is active on FT8/FT4 and wondered what he needed to get on PSK. So I gave him the PODXS070 club website and told him what the award was about and then a list of PSK Software and mentioned there were others. Crossing Fingers. -- Scotty W7PSK Everett, Washington 070 #138
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Re: ZL7DX and Hole 13
Recieved a note from Chris. He has decided to live on Chatham permenantly and has moved everything to the island. He is active on FT8/FT4 and wondered
what he needed to get on PSK. So I gave him the PODXS070 club website and told him what the award was about and then a list of PSK Software and mentioned there were others. Crossing Fingers. -- Scotty W7PSK Everett, Washington 070 #138
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Re: 24/7 Endorsement - - Week Three - hour slots 0800z and 0900Z Begins tonight
malcolm heard
Looking to make contact with anyone who has info regarding Estes Park area Malcolm Ke0jbt
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:34 AM Alan - KA5VZG <ka5vzg@...> wrote: Week one covering hours 0400-0500z and week two covering hours 0600-0700z --
Leadership • Culture • Talent
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24/7 Endorsement - thanks and encouragement
GA - Bob - K4VBM
Hi All,
Many thanks to Bob KK6KMU and Alan KA5VZG for putting together the schedule and being there to enable those of us missing the many late night and early morning slots for the 24/7 endorsement to get them. I will admit that for some of those QSOs so far, my eyes were foggy and my brain was still asleep, but the fun and accomplishment was always there, and I was missing all of them before this. I know that I have filled many holes so far, and also had a number a QSOs with other members of the 070 club which is also helping me in my LONP quest. So nice to meet more of the club members. Thanks to everyone that has participated so far, especially all my QSO partners! I have a special announcement/request: I missed last week's Friday schedule for the 0600 and 0700 UTC hour slots. Because of that, I am going to make the effort to be on from 0630z to 0730z in an attempt to fill them and hand them out for others that may have missed those slots. I will be on both 40m and 80m during those times for each of those parts of the hour slot, looking for a club member. I will also be monitoring the 070 club 24/7 groups.io chat that can be accessed by this URL: https://070club.groups.io/g/main/chat/7056 (You do have to have a login to groups.io to access the chat, It really helps to be in the chat to let people know you are there and what band you are currently on.) Looking forward to seeing you during the rest of this undertaking, and thanks again to KK6KMU and KA5VZG! 73 and stay safe, Bob Hensey K4VBM (Very Bad Memory)
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Re: 24/7 Endorsement - - Week Three - hour slots 0800z and 0900Z Begins tonight
Tried to get on last night , but T-storms were overhead. Sorry I missed it. Jerry n9avy
On Thursday, October 22, 2020, 12:14:36 PM CDT, Bob Motyl KK6KMU <bobmotyl@...> wrote: 24/7 Update. Band conditions were not great last night. 80 meters seemed better than 40meters. QSO's with members Dave KB3RAN, Bob K4VBM, Alan KA5VZG, Stan W9SMR, and Don KC4OBB. I did see a few others PODXS members they were but too weak to try. Also made contact with John from Hilo HI KH6DLK and Lew from Australia VK4KLA on 40 meters. Glad we had the chat room or I would have missed Lew. Thanks to Alan and Stan for pointing him out. This week is almost over so join us if you have a chance. I still have hours 11, 12, and 13 columns completely empty. I know Alan and Bob stayed up to fill those hours but I just couldn't stay awake. Thanks to all who participated. See you on the waterfall. Bob KK6KMU
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Re: 24/7 Endorsement - - Week Three - hour slots 0800z and 0900Z Begins tonight
Bob Motyl KK6KMU
24/7 Update.
Band conditions were not great last night. 80 meters seemed better than 40meters. QSO's with members Dave KB3RAN, Bob K4VBM, Alan KA5VZG, Stan W9SMR, and Don KC4OBB. I did see a few others PODXS members they were but too weak to try. Also made contact with John from Hilo HI KH6DLK and Lew from Australia VK4KLA on 40 meters. Glad we had the chat room or I would have missed Lew. Thanks to Alan and Stan for pointing him out. This week is almost over so join us if you have a chance. I still have hours 11, 12, and 13 columns completely empty. I know Alan and Bob stayed up to fill those hours but I just couldn't stay awake. Thanks to all who participated. See you on the waterfall. Bob KK6KMU
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Re: ZL7DX and Hole 13
Wow, what a deal! 😂
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On Oct 21, 2020, at 8:03 PM, Milton Garb via groups.io <n6mg@...> wrote:
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Re: ZL7DX and Hole 13
Dan how generous of you to volunteer your time.
Let's bring it up again when the SFI is at about 120?
Milt
N6MG
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From: Dan Morris - KZ3T <dbmorris315@...> To: main@070club.groups.io <main@070Club.groups.io> Sent: Wed, Oct 21, 2020 2:05 pm Subject: Re: [070Club] ZL7DX and Hole 13 Volunteer? Sure , will P070 pay for the trip? LOL
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Re: 40 Meters QRP Calling 1925Z
Don - KM4UDX
Steve, if you want to try qrp to qrp, that would be fun. I'm back in town next week, love to try it.
text me at 571-225-6180 with a head's up if you want to try. I've had great success doing most all the digital modes with my qrp uBITX radio to other QRP's. Of course, a good antenna really helps us lower power wieners. -- Don, km4udx, uBITX, and other obscure acronyms go here...
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Re: ZL7DX and Hole 13
Volunteer? Sure , will P070 pay for the trip? LOL
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