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On Sunday, March 29, 2020, 01:59:21 PM EDT, Brad Knapp <bknappmd11@gmail.com> wrote:
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<p>Guys, love getting the Club news emailings. That said/written,
is there a way to do this chatting on a social media venue....e.g.
club Facebook account, etc? Can only speak for myself.....I rely
on my email inbox almost hourly for updates from the company
because of the dynamic nature of things today.</p>
<p>Great idea connecting with each other, though!</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Brad, K9MHZ</p>
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<div class="yiv9204651916yqt5613550872" id="yiv9204651916yqtfd39934"><div class="yiv9204651916moz-cite-prefix">On 3/29/20 12:24 PM, David Spoelstra
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weekend.</div>
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<div class="yiv9204651916gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:14
PM Wayne Michael <<a href="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com">wrmichael@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Dave, </p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">That is very impressive. I am not
sure how you do it. </p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">I use every spare moment on the air
making contacts and I only managed to get 10,013
contacts in 2019.
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Most of mine are FT8, none of them
“ROBOT” contacts. For some reason believe we use robots
in that mode. I have som FT4, many SSB and maybe 2 CW.
This year I am on 70 contacts in CW but I don’t know the
other counts. Likely not as many. </p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">I have an addiction to moving up the
list on QRZ most confirmed QSO’s list… I am sitting at
about 385/384 usually.. hard to move up from here.
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Thanks for comparing notes. It is
good to know I am not the only addict.
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">de ac9hp</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in;"><b>From:
</b><a href="mailto:davids@mediamachine.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:davids@mediamachine.com">David
Spoelstra</a><br clear="none">
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 29, 2020 11:53 AM<br clear="none">
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [IRCNews] The sun isn't helping
us during our "vacation"</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">LOL, no, I'm not a member. I did
check my log since you were surprised how many QSOs I
made. Last year I made 12,921 contacts. That's
248/week for 52 weeks straight.
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">No, I'm not an SKCC member.
Sorry.</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:12 AM
Wayne Michael <<a href="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com">wrmichael@hotmail.com</a>>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Radio addicts anonymous. </p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;">Are
you a skcc member? If so I need your # in my
log. </p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Sent from my iPhone</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;">On Mar 29, 2020,
at 10:58 AM, David Spoelstra <<a href="mailto:davids@mediamachine.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:davids@mediamachine.com">davids@mediamachine.com</a>>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">It's really not that
hard when you're on the air 12+ hours a
day. I'm doing SSB, CW, FT8, FT4, SSTV,
and a few RTTY.
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">What's the RAA?</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020
at 10:37 AM Wayne Michael <<a href="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wrmichael@hotmail.com">wrmichael@hotmail.com</a>>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">673 QSOs --- in a
WEEK?
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">It has been a
long time since I have seen anything
close to that.
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Want to join me
at the next RAA meeting?
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"><b>From:
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<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 29,
2020 10:36 AM<br clear="none">
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ircnews@indyradioclub.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ircnews@indyradioclub.org">IRC News</a><br clear="none">
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [IRCNews] The
sun isn't helping us during our
"vacation"</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Oh, the low
sunspots hasn't kept me off the
bands. Last week I made 673 QSOs
without a contest going! I just
need 10m and 12m to open to finish
my 9BWAS and 8BDXCC.
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">-David, N9KT</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar
29, 2020 at 10:22 AM Mel
Crichton <<a href="mailto:kj9c@att.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kj9c@att.net">kj9c@att.net</a>>
wrote:</p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;">so
make lemonade!
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Forty
meters has been great to
Europe, and that's from
here in Montana... I even
worked DX on 40 SSB this
weekend....</span></p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br clear="none">
Eighty and 75 meters are
still good, although 160
is getting tough from
here.... but should still
be good in Indiana</span></p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;">And
20 meters is about as good
as always....</span></p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;">You
just need to get on and make
some noise to put some DX
into the log</span></p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Mel
9C</span></p>
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<p class="yiv9204651916MsoNormal">Well,
2020 just set a new record.
So far, 78% of the days have
had no sunspots.</p>
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