“Storm
Watch”
Newsletter of NZ1U – The Barnstormers
Contest Group
Volume 15 No.5.
Annual Barnstormer Christmas Party January 15th
I have
lost count but who cares! Our annual Christmas Party will be held
As usual we will start around
Kim is
bringing wings, Jay American Chop Suey, and I can expect we will all taste
Vic’s great cheese cake again. Mary is making the cranberry meatballs and I am
sure one or more dishes.
Bring what you want to drink.
Halfway through the 2010 – 2011 Contest Season
The first
two major contests are behind us with ARRL DX CW next up. Of course we have
January VHF, and CQ160 CW before then.
Although
we still hurt for a good horizontal antenna on 40M our operating skills are
really improving. CQWW CW – more than 5000 QSOs, more than 11M points. I would
never had imagined we would improve this much.
Some comments:
Awesome score Dick! – KM3T
Great gg Dick! Can’t wait to see how that 40 beam works! 73 JACK W1WEF
Wow. >5,000 Q's >11.4 M
Your team has come a long way. I think I can recall when you
guys considered
2,000 Q's a good weekend. Congratulations. – Fred K1VR
All these
comments are well earned and you all should feel proud of what we have
accomplished.
Scores like recent ones make others notice The Barnstormer
Contest Group.!!
Well done crew!
Projects
We are still plugging along.
40M
AA1CE installed the 5 element 6M on the 10M tower getting
ready for January SS.
We have
begun to tear down the ceiling. Not a nice job and a mess but last week AA1CE,
NB1U, NR1X, and KB1H made quite an opening in the ceiling. Once down we will
assess what we do for the cabling.
Most other
projects have had no progress since the last Project List was sent out. Don’t worry;
I won’t let you guys slow down!
N1XS has
done allot of work remotely on the Website. Take a look if you have not been
there lately.
Hope to
see everyone on the 15th and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!