CHRIS KL9A PRESENTS WRTC PROGRAM AT SDXA SEPTEMBER MEETING
Friday, September 8th, 2006
We are honored to have Chris KL9A as our guest speaker at the September 7th meeting . He was a participant in the recent WRTC 2006 contest in Brazil. He and Ward N0AX finished 8th as a team from the USA. Chris will give a PowerPoint presentation on the event. Be sure to make this special meeting and bring your prospective new member friends.
From Chris:
I got my no-code tech in 1993 when I was 10 years old. That got old real fast so I upgraded to a tech plus and spent about 2 or 3 years in the novice bands getting my code speed up. Eventually I upgraded to general, then shortly after that, Extra at age 14.
My first contest was SS CW from KL7, while my code speed was just barely at 13wpm. I got on and after one CQ, had a roaring pileup that was about 20wpm too fast for me, so I gave up and quit. After I calmed down a bit I got back on and slowly worked a few guys. I was very active during high school as WL7KY, getting my code speed up.
I was invited to KL7Y for CQWW CW in 1997, and after that it became my permanent contest home. KL7Y (SK) was a fabulous contest elmer, and I spent many hours helping him put up antennas and learning as much as I could. In 2000 I came to the University of Idaho and hooked up with the gang at W7UQ. For most of my contests I end up traveling to big stations. The last few years I regularly go to NK7U for big SSB multi ops, or CW single ops. For CQWW CW and ARRL CW I go to K3LR and have been on 40m with N2NC the last few times.
As far as WRTC goes, 2006 was my first one. N0AX emailed me one day out of the blue and asked me if I would be his partner, and of course I said yes! I am currently a produce manager at Rosauers, and a student at the U of I. I like all aspects of ham radio, particularly contesting. But VHF weak signal is a lot of fun, even if there isn’t a lot of activity in the NW!
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