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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.<\/p>\n
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From Chris:
\nI 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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! <\/p>\n
More information about the WRTC event is at their web site:<\/p>\n