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Submitted by KG4KWW on Sat, 07/31/2010 - 00:53Hello all, I hope that you and yours had a safe, cool, and pleasant week.
We have had some storms here in Virginia this past week that have brought some needed rain
and unneeded storm damage and power outages. What about this summer's heat wave. Wow!!,
several 100 degree days in a row. I'm sure the power companies are making bucks hand over fist.
How did you do in last weekend IOTA Contest?
I was able to work about a dozen stations during homework breaks.
This is the last week of summer classes and I'm looking forward to the break,
before the fall classes start.

Amateur Radio Tid Bits
Submitted by KG4KWW on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 15:57Hello all, I hope that you and yours had a safe and pleasant week.
I hope that you been able to stay cool during the current heat wave.
There are a lot of folks who have had to deal with power outages, nasty weather, and
even a tropical storm. We have been fortunate in that our power company, has been able to keep up
with the higher than usual demands being put on the power grid due to the weather.
How did you do in last weekends CQ's Worldwide VHF Contest?
It was nice to hear stations on 144MHz SSB calling "CQ Contest".

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Submitted by KG4KWW on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 15:58Hello all, I hope that you and yours had a safe and pleasant week.
As you all know 6m had a short opening earlier during the week (7/15/10)and I was
able to work on 7/15/10, VP5/W5CW a US station that was working dx from
TURKS/CAICOS ISLANDS, British West Indies (BWI) on 50.127 with 100w and a di-pole.
His signal faded soon after I worked him. However, I was one of the lucky ones and was able
to make the contact. Another new country for 6m. :)
On 7//12/10 in the morning 2m (144 MHz) had an opening from the North East (ME) to the South East (GA).

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Submitted by KG4KWW on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 05:47Hello all, I hope that you and yours had a safe and pleasant 4th of July.
Pat and I stayed close to home and spent the weekend with family and my school books. :)
We could hear the firecrackers going off all around as folks were having fun
celebrating the 234th Birthday Of the United States.
How many of you were able to work all of the 13 Colonies special event stations?
I got lucky and worked them all. The majority of stations that I worked were on 40m.
I did work some on 20m, 10m and 75m. It was a lot of fun trying to get thru the
pileups.

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Submitted by KG4KWW on Sat, 07/03/2010 - 01:19Hello all, I hope that you and yours had a safe and pleasant week.
I hope that you had good time at Field Day if you went to your local radio club's event,
operated from home, or someplace else.
Well it's the 4th of July and it feels like June just arrived. There are a lot of good
special events that will be on the air this weekend,
like the 13 original colonies event ( I have already worked 11 of the 13 colonies),
10-10 Int Spirit of 76 Qso Party, and a whole lot more.
If you are traveling this weekend please becareful and remember there will be a lot of cops on the roads
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