<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp152d13aeyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">Hey, give it a shot !</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">John</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">KK4ITX</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>Just a reminder that Wednesday night of this week in the USA (0000-0300Z<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>Thursday) is the annual QRPARCI 160M contest. Exchange is RST + S/P/C +<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>ARCI Member # or power. We had a lot of fun QRP on 160M last week in<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>two Fox events. We should have even more QRP activity in this event.</b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b> <br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>Even if you cannot get your rig to run 5W or less, this contest allows<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>participation by all and takes care of the inequities with power mults. <br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>I expect to be QRP 5W and hope for many QSOs. This is a good warm up<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>for the ARRL 160M contest this coming weekend, Friday afternoon to<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>Sunday morning. </b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>There is a possibility that I may have a new 160M<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>inverted L in operation by Wednesday night. Good luck and 73/72 to<br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font color="#4c76a2"><b>all. John, K4BAI.</b></font></div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp152d13aesignature"><div align="center"><br></div><div align="center"><br></div><div align="center"><br></div></div></div></body></html>