When I got home from work last night, I was really tired (like, try putting 5 really's after that one!) and I didn't have much of an appetite. Just overworked, I guess. I sat and talked with Cara and Marianne for a bit and then hit the sack at 7:00 PM. I was not about to go down and sit in my cold shack for whatever time it would have taken to work K4BAI and K9DRP.
In their logs today, I see that my NJ Hound buddy, Chas W2SH worked both, so conditions to New Jersey were probably good. C'est la vie! I woke up, coincidentally at 10:30 PM, just as the hunts were ending. I went downstairs to grab a small bite to eat (a buttered hamburger roll) as I had gotten hungry, and then went back to bed. It's better today, but I still could use another long night in bed. I'm getting too old for this 8:00 to 5:00 stuff!
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ARRL Rookie Roundup, CW - http://www.arrl.org/rookie-roundup
Special Events:
12/21/2024 | 80th Anniversary Grumman Amateur Radio Club
Dec 21, 1400Z-2200Z, WA2LQO, Bethpage, NY. Grumman Amateur Radio Club. 14.240 7240 21.350. Certificate. Downloadable Card Only, Check www,limarc.org, Bethpage, NY 11714. Amateur Radio Club of Grumman Aerospace contact George Sullivan, WB2IKt sullige@verizon.net downloadable QSL Sponsored by the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club www.limarc.org for log confirmation and download operating SSB and FT8
12/21/2024 | Christmas in Bethlehem New Mexico
Dec 21-Dec 24, 1500Z-2359Z, KC5OUR, Peralta, NM. Valencia County Amateur Radio Association. 7.183 14.283 21.283 28.383. QSL. VCARA, P. O. Box 268, Peralta, NM 87042. www.kc5our.com
In other news - I've gone against my gut and volunteered to be the QRP-ARCI Contest Manager. Paul Womble, K4FB. who I believe is still a rather newlywed needed to step back and concentrate on other things in life - like his duties as an Emergency Management Director in Florida. That'll keep you hopping during hurricane season!
The way I look at it, participation in the QRP-ARCI events has really fallen off. The plan to remediate that is to advertise the heck out of them. Not just a quick e-mail, one or two days in advance, but a concentrated effort. What's that quote from "Field of Dreams"? - "If you build it, they will come". So I figure if I build up interest, Hams will start to come back and participate. People have lives and need to plan. It's hard sometimes to just sit down for a QRP Sprint when you only found out about it the day before. Maybe we can fix that.
I do it with the NJQRP Skeeter Hunt and have been moderately successful. And if it doesn't work, they can always fire me!
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
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