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Lloyd Lachow

[fpqrp] QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!

That's right...we might have EIGHT Barbers on hand
tonight! If you work all eight on all three bands,
you'd get 24,000 bonus points. But it's simply not
possible.

Your Barbers:

Joe, AA4NN, operating his club call, K5ESE. Joe's
in Delhi, LA, tonight, operating his K2 at 5W to a
center-fed Zepp at 17 feet.

Jeff, K9ESE, in Muncie, IN, will be running his Red
Hot 40 and Red Hot 20 at 5W to a vertical end-fed Zepp
for 20 and 40 meters, and an NVIS horizontal
end-fed Zepp for 40 meters. The NVIS antenna will be
16 feet off the ground, with a wire reflector directly
under it. Both antennas tuned with LDG Z-11 tuners. Be
tough to work Jeff on 80M tonight.

Trev, K6ESE, will be coming to you from Los
Angeles, CA, on his K2 at 5W into an 88' EDZ inverted
vee,
40' at the apex, and 12' at the ends. The ends face
roughly North-South. His paddle will be either the
Schurr Profi II or Begali Magnetic Signature.

Monty, N5ESE, in Austin, TX, is also running a K2
at 5W, and it's hooked up to a 40M inverted vee. I'm
ALMOST sure Monty will be in there...

Tom, K2ESE, in Elizabeth, NJ, one of our new
Barbers, will be using an FT-1000 MK5 (cranked down to
5 watts, of course), an Alpha Delta LB Plus dipole
(160~40 ), and a beam for the higher bands.

Bryan, W0ESE, of Holts Summit, MO, is another new
Barber.

Joe Rutledge, W7ESE, of Seattle, WA, rounds out our
current crop of first-time Barbers. He wanted to use
his Rock-Mite, but, hopefully, I've convinced him to
use his my FT-897 at 5 watts, to give more of us a
chance to work him. Joe is using a trap dipole.

Lloyd, K3ESE, in Reisterstown, MD, is using his
multiPIG+ at 5W to an 88' EDZ at 45' and a 302'
horizontal loop up about 50', both fed with balanced
line and tuned with a ZM-2.

Barbers will call "CQ ESE," and Customers will call
"CQ BS." Barbers may work split, if necessary. All the
details, an easy-to-use autolog for reporting your
scores afterwards, and results will be found at
http://www.io.com/~n5fc/barbershop_contest.htm .

This event combines the non-stop action of a
two-hour sprint with the hunt-type event, albeit with
eight ops being hunted, rather than one or two. The
Barbers are spread out across the US, so everyone
ought to be able to grab some of those bonus points.

...got two bits...?

for the Barbers,

Lloyd, K3ESE

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Trev - K6ESE

Re: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!

Anyone on for the contest??? 20 Meters sure is dead!

73's Trev - K6ESE
http://www.qsl.net/k6ese
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Lachow" <[hidden email]>
To: "a new, nice low-energy list" <[hidden email]>; "Li'l Piggies"
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Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:56 AM
Subject: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!

> That's right...we might have EIGHT Barbers on hand
> tonight! If you work all eight on all three bands,
> you'd get 24,000 bonus points. But it's simply not
> possible.
>
> Your Barbers:
>
> Joe, AA4NN, operating his club call, K5ESE. Joe's
> in Delhi, LA, tonight, operating his K2 at 5W to a
> center-fed Zepp at 17 feet.
>
> Jeff, K9ESE, in Muncie, IN, will be running his Red
> Hot 40 and Red Hot 20 at 5W to a vertical end-fed Zepp
> for 20 and 40 meters, and an NVIS horizontal
> end-fed Zepp for 40 meters. The NVIS antenna will be
> 16 feet off the ground, with a wire reflector directly
> under it. Both antennas tuned with LDG Z-11 tuners. Be
> tough to work Jeff on 80M tonight.
>
> Trev, K6ESE, will be coming to you from Los
> Angeles, CA, on his K2 at 5W into an 88' EDZ inverted
> vee,
> 40' at the apex, and 12' at the ends. The ends face
> roughly North-South. His paddle will be either the
> Schurr Profi II or Begali Magnetic Signature.
>
> Monty, N5ESE, in Austin, TX, is also running a K2
> at 5W, and it's hooked up to a 40M inverted vee. I'm
> ALMOST sure Monty will be in there...
>
> Tom, K2ESE, in Elizabeth, NJ, one of our new
> Barbers, will be using an FT-1000 MK5 (cranked down to
> 5 watts, of course), an Alpha Delta LB Plus dipole
> (160~40 ), and a beam for the higher bands.
>
> Bryan, W0ESE, of Holts Summit, MO, is another new
> Barber.
>
> Joe Rutledge, W7ESE, of Seattle, WA, rounds out our
> current crop of first-time Barbers. He wanted to use
> his Rock-Mite, but, hopefully, I've convinced him to
> use his my FT-897 at 5 watts, to give more of us a
> chance to work him. Joe is using a trap dipole.
>
> Lloyd, K3ESE, in Reisterstown, MD, is using his
> multiPIG+ at 5W to an 88' EDZ at 45' and a 302'
> horizontal loop up about 50', both fed with balanced
> line and tuned with a ZM-2.
>
>
> Barbers will call "CQ ESE," and Customers will call
> "CQ BS." Barbers may work split, if necessary. All the
> details, an easy-to-use autolog for reporting your
> scores afterwards, and results will be found at
> http://www.io.com/~n5fc/barbershop_contest.htm .
>
>
> This event combines the non-stop action of a
> two-hour sprint with the hunt-type event, albeit with
> eight ops being hunted, rather than one or two. The
> Barbers are spread out across the US, so everyone
> ought to be able to grab some of those bonus points.
>
>
> ...got two bits...?
>
>
> for the Barbers,
>
> Lloyd, K3ESE
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Larry Makoski W2LJ

Re: Re: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!

Trev - K6ESE wrote:

>Anyone on for the contest??? 20 Meters sure is dead!
>
>
>
Trev,

20 Meters really bit the big one tonight! I only had two Qs on 20. As
usual. 40 Meters was the place to be. I hung out on 80 Meters for a
while and was disappointed to not see more activity there.

73 de Larry W2LJ

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Joe-aa4nn

Re: Re: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!

In reply to this post by Lloyd Lachow

I intended to start the contest on 20m so I listened a while before the contest, nothing, nada, dead from North Louisiana. Checking 80m periodically during the contest revealed nothing much but noise. I am surprised this rural QTH is so noisy. Nothing like my home in South Carolina.

But the contest was fun using my K2 at 5 watts and portable center fed Zepp. All of my 29 haircuts were given out on 40m, including 4 barbers and one dup. Thanks to all for all the Qs.

The next Barbershop Contest will be December 29th. It happens I will be in Houston, TX, for that one.

73,
de Joe, aa4nn
aka K5ESE & K5GFN

K6ese wrote:
>Anyone on for the contest??? 20 Meters sure is dead!
>
Trev,

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Joe-aa4nn

Re: Re: QRP Barbershop OCTET Contest tonight!

In reply to this post by Lloyd Lachow