Commercial radio operators testing scheduled for Sat, Sept 17.
The Hartford, Connecticut, Test Center of National Radio Examiners
(W5YI Group) will conduct commercial radio exams on Saturday,
September 17, starting at 12 noon in Hartford. Exams will be
given for the General Radiotelephone Operators License (GROL)
along with the other licenses and endorsements that are now
available through this privatized testing program.
Seating at this particular venue is limited, so any interested
party should contact me via email or telephone at 203-722-2358
for further details on this session or subsequent exam sessions.
Thanks.
Robert Halprin, K1XA, NRE Test Center Manager (Htfd).
G
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 19:36:30 GMT
From: world!dts@uunet.uu.net
Subject: HPM Lesson?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <veltmanCvuH1F.L68@netcom.com>,
paul Veltman <veltman@netcom.com> wrote:
>Hans Brakob (71111.260@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
>: It's Tuesday evening and the "/125" HPM event has been going strong for 5 days now. You'd think that most folks would have their "25" for the award, and that a few are hanging on for the stickers up to 125.
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>: I got on this evening to see if perhaps I could help those few stragglers who need one or two more. Well, after 4 hours the band folded and I had upwards of 500 new ones in the log. This thing is as strong as it was early Saturday.
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>: After 16 hours of operation I have 2142 QSO's on a single band/mode. "Annualizing" that to 24 hours you get over 3200 QSO's. In a 24-hour SweepStakes I'd be in the top-ten box with about half that number of Q's.
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>: This is a "contest like" atmosphere, very similar to SweepStakes in that it is "domestic", and a "little pistol" can play the game. A LOT of folks are obviously enjoying it. Where are these same folks in the SS? What is the "trigger" that drew them
>ito this, or conversely, why aren't they in SS in similar numbers?
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>: I have some partially baked thoughts on the subject, but I'd like to hear what others might think. (Especially those of you who did the "/125" thing, but never have played seriously in a domestic contest like SweepStakes.)
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>: 73, de Hans, K0HB
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>: Hans Brakob, K0HB | EX-KG6AQI, WA0PQF, WB9DLL
>: Vice Director | WB4GXH, WB0WFF
>: Dakota Division ARRL | 73 from Minnesota
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>Hans,
>Thanks for your comments. It's just another piece of wallpaper to me,
>but the comment I would like to make is:
>Will you guys please listen for weak stations? I am running 20 Meter
>mobile while I'm setting up my home station. I hate being drowned out by
>W4s and W5s using surplus VOA or Radio Moscow transmitters.
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>73
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>Paul WA6OKQ <veltman@netcom.com>
I worked a couple of folks while mobile myself, then got home and called
CQ N1JEB/125 on RTTY for a while. Most folks had no idea about the /125.
Disappointing. I like putting RTTY on the air for such events... The
rate was very low, so I switched to phone. I have NEVER run such pileups
from my home station. Running 100 watts on a few different wires, I worked
64 Qs/hr for several hours.
Some of the stations were very weak, some were QRP, some were mobile, some
were DX. I generally took them in the order I heard them, even the DX. I
told a 9G1 to stand by while I worked a WA4, for example. After a while I
started writing down 4 or 5 calls or call fragments after each QRZ and then
calling back those that I had. I'd like to thank all the operators who were
EXTREMELY courteous when I was running this way. They knew I had a list, and
since they could not tell if they were already on it, they listened as I
worked through the list.
I wish I had had more time to operate in this event, and may get a few more
hours in yet before the end, but I had a blast! Several people commented to
me on the air that we should do an event of this sort as an annual thing.
Many of the folks who do lots of ARRL volunteer work don't get to spend as
many of their ham radio hours actually on the air as they'd really like.
This event was, in a way, a nice way to thank the volunteers for their efforts.
