[WARC] Re: [La Crosse Hams] The VHF Sweepstakes this past weekend

[Todd Sprinkmann]

    Well the whole SW WI area did it again!   This is the 2nd year
in a row you hams have had an impressive turnout for the
ARRL Jan VHF Sweepstakes.   20-25 operators from a region
far away from large cities is something else.

     Someone's going to win a plaque.   It won't be a big gun or
long-time contester.   I sponsored this plaque to encourage some
new or smaller stations to get on.   It's working.  :)

     What I need now is to see your contest log.   I can't award
a plaque to anyone who doesn't send me their log.   KC9JTL
won it last year.   Who's going to win it this year?    (Yes,
KC9JTL and W9HQ still qualify as smaller-guns and newer
contesters)

     W9HQ and WV9E, I don't know what all groups you
promoted the contest to.   I only email to the LaCrosseHams
and WARC lists.   So if you pass the word in various directions,
please do so.   I don't want anyone who is plaque eligible to be
left out.

     Questions or comments, please email me.
     73,
     Todd  KC9BQA   EN63ao   40 N of Milwaukee
     http://www.kc9bqa.com  For Frequent VHF/UHF Updates

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Palm" <thepalmhq at gmail.com>
To: "LaCrosse Hams" <LaCrosseHams at qth.com>; 
<vernon-ares at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:52 AM
Subject: [La Crosse Hams] The VHF Sweepstakes this past weekend


>I just wanted to thank all who got on the air and contacted KC9JTL over 
>the
> weekend.  It was really great to hear so many locals, on both FM and 
> SSB.
>
> As for locals on FM we worked KB9TPG, KC9LBO, K9ALT, KC9OYG, KC9NHQ, 
> KC9KVJ,
> W9ET, KC9MRV, WX9EP, and N9UNW.
>
> Local contacts on SSB came from WV9E, WV9S, KA9FOX, W9UUM, W9GM, 
> W9RPM,
> N9ETD, KB9BGN, and AB9HW.  (I hope I'm not forgetting anybody.)
>
> I think that's just great, so thanks again for everybody who got on 
> the air!
>
> Christopher and I made a total of 93 contacts.  Here's the breakdown:
>
>               QSOs    Grids
> 50              27          9
> 144            52          14
> 222            9             6
> 440            5             1
>
> That's almost twice as many contacts as we got last January, which was 
> our
> first VHF-UHF contest.  And conditions were pretty poor this weekend.
>
> Hope to do better in June.  If you have an inkling that this might be 
> fun
> (it is!) then by all means make some plans to put some yagis in the 
> air and
> play in the June contest.
>
> 73,
>
> David  W9HQ
>


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