Photos - VP5FXB Operators at Work (1)


Most of these photos were shot by Cindy, W0CG's XYL, on Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, February 14-22, 1998.

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Dr. Tom Kravec, W8TK, picking up 80 meter QSOs in the wee hours of Saturday morning. This is Geoff, W0CG, running high rates in the first two hours of the contest on 20.

 

MUCH later in the contest, a very zoned Goose, W8AV, pretends to make QSOs on 20.
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KU8E (Jeff) at the left on 20 and Doug, K4LT, on the right running very high QSO rates on Saturday afternoon on 15. K4LT at work again burning up the band on 15. Doug consistently wins CW code speed contests and his skills really show in Caribbean high-rate contexts such as in the above photo. Dan (K8RF), our low-band specialist (!) struggling to pick out signals on 10 on Saturday afternoon.  We waited all weekend for the opening that never came on 10, thus losing the contest to V26B. The few signals we heard were about S 0.0003.

 

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K8RF still digging on 10 while KU8E, passed out on the sofa, dreams of 400/hour rates on 40. Ken, WA9S, at the Ten-Tec multiplier station searching for VY1JA. WA9S hard at work digging out mults.