[RMVHF] Fwd: [VHF] The Fred Fish Memorial Award

[Nate Duehr]

Sean Kutzko wrote:
> Nate-
>  
> I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, so if you are, please 
> accept my apologies. :)

Ha, no need for that!  This is all just "fun" stuff.  This isn't that 
evil four letter word, "work"... well heck, even at work I try to have a 
good time... spend most of my life there... might as well.

> If you're serious, I'm afraid you mis-read the rule. You don't have to 
> make every QSO within 200km of the grid you're trying to work, you need 
> to make sure all the QSOs you make are made from wtihin the same 200km 
> area. Basically, this means you need to make all the QSOs from your home 
> QTH (or reasonably close to it). If you live in Colorado and work some 
> needed grids while on vacation in Florida, those QSOs do not count 
> towards your grid total.

I get it now.  The wording had me thinking you had to get within 200 km 
of the grid square you wanted to WORK.  WOW... that would be REALLY 
REALLY HARD to do!

> This is how VUCC has worked, and so it will work with the FFMA.


I guess I knew that, but wasn't thinking about it.  I knew VUCC worked 
that way, but somehow even the hint that it was the same as VUCC didn't 
sink in.  All I saw was "locations no more than 200 km apart" and it 
stuck in my head.

Thanks for clarifying Sean.

As I said on another list today where people were getting touchy about 
the word "idiot"... *I'm* an idiot.  REGULARLY!  We all are, sooner or 
later, about something!

:-)

Nate WY0X