Archive for February, 2010

Handiham World for 03 February 2010

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See you in May

Dr. Dave Justis, KN0S, and snowman friend after storm in Virginia, January 2010

That’s what Dr. Dave Justis, KN0S, writes. Just look at Dr. Dave standing by that big snowman. You would never guess that he lives in Virginia, and that the snowfall there has been most unusual for that southern State!

Dave is planning to be at Minnesota Radio Camp at Camp Courage, May 21 through 28, 2010. A long-time Handiham volunteer, Dr. Dave is a veteran of many radio camp sessions at locations in California and Minnesota. The return to Camp Courage, which is a big change for us, actually brings the Handiham program closer to its roots.

Dr. Dave remembers when the first radio camp sessions, then called “convocations”, were held at Camp Courage. For the past 20 years Minnesota Radio Camp has been at Courage North, deep in the pines of Northern Minnesota, near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Camp Courage, founded in 1955, is just an hour west of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, in southern Minnesota.

The new location will provide campers like Dr. Dave excellent accommodations and much more convenient transportation options.

Find out more about camp or download an application on handiham.org – Just follow the radio camp application link.

For Handiham World, I’m…

Patrick Tice, [email protected]

January 2010 Wrap-Up

Almost all of my activity in January was limited to contests (RTTY Roundup, PSKFest, NAQP SSB, and BARTG Sprint) which accounted for a lot of new states on 80m and 40m but not too many new countries.

DXCC: Made a big leap from 29 to 42 countries worked on 40m. Worked 2 new (all-band) countries — Iceland (TF) on 40m PSK and Sweden (SM) on 20m CW.

WAS: The NAQP Phone test boosted my 80m WAS total from 1 state to 28 in a single night, as well as bumping my all-band phone state count from 19 to 43. The RTTY Roundup at the beginning of January netted me 30 new states on that mode.

WAZ: No new zones overall, but I added 4 zones each on CW and RTTY modes, and one new zone on PSK.

Stats through 31-Jan-2010:
All
80m
40m
30m
20m
17m
15m
Ph
CW
Dig
DXCC
80
2
42
10
66
12
20
52
5
62
WAS
50
28
48
7
48
19
12
43
1
50
WAZ
26
3
20
8
23
9
8
22
5
22

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