[WVDXA] 160 Meter Contest

[Dave Heil]

Clark L. Stewart wrote:
> Dave,
> 
>      I shudder to think what you would have done had you actually been 
> able to operate the entire contest!  

Well, last year I worked a lot more of it--to the tune of 980 QSOs or 
so.  It was enough to grab high power single op honors for WV, but not 
enough to even crack the top 20 nationally.  In three years I can draw 
SS.  I'll be 62 and won't have drive the wife back and forth to work.
Unfortunately, I'll probably go for more football games and sleep.

> AMAZING!  Only 6 sections away from 
> a Clean Sweep on Top Band.  

It honks me that I actually heard KD4POJ from Grand Forks.  He was CQing 
and then disappeared.  I missed a weekend WAS by that QSO.  It was odd 
that I didn't find anyone in NNY too.

> I stand in AWE of you!

To paraphrase WV author, the late Davis Grubb, sit over by that window. 
  You can venerate me better from there.  heh


>      I saw you spotted once but when I got there, you were gone.

This is one where you've got to CQ and you've got to search and pounce. 
  You must have looked when I decided on a foray for mults (and those 
who only CQ).

> Clark, W8TN
> *A "Little Pistol" on Top Band

You've got the makings of a fine 160m antenna farm.  Just keep adding 
those radials a little at a time until you've put in 5 or 6 thousand 
feet of them.

73,

Dave K8MN