[WVDXA] Phone Call-around for BS7

[Dave Heil]

W8OI at aol.com wrote:
> Guys:
>  
> The phone call-around did not work well this morning.  I got a call 
> (thanks Greg) but I know it broke down because I called several later 
> and only one that I talked with had received a call about the BS7 being on.
>  
> A lot of people just were not home or on their secondary number (where 
> one was listed) and WA8WV's phone was not working, but the system still 
> should have worked all the way around and it didn't.  Please remember, 
> we are all supposed to call the next one on the list, and if he is not 
> available we go on down another line to the next one on the list.  If we 
> get no answer there, we're supposed to keep dropping down until we reach 
> somebody, then he runs with the "ball."
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Garry
> Desperate for BS7

Garry et al,

I think the list worked as it should, and per the instructions provided.
Bob 'QHG called me after being unable to raise N8NN who was likely at 
church.  I called everyone else on the list since I was unable to raise 
anyone.  I got answering machines at most and left messages. I then went 
on down the list since an answering machine was to be considered a "no 
answer".  I found that WA8WV's phone didn't work.

Most must have been at church or otherwise occupied.

I have no tribander up at present and am using a 20m wire vertical 
alongside the 70' tower.  It barely heard the BS7.  I'm receiving better 
on my 17m yagi with a low power tuner.  I can't put full power to that 
one without a high power tuner.  I'm guessing that my best shots will be 
40 or 17m.

73,

Dave K8MN