[MiQP-Mail] Michigan Tech

[Morse, Earl (E.A.)]

If you go back a ways W8YY was always on in MiQP.  When it used to be in
May it always coincided with exam week.

We used to win the UP plaque a lot.

W8YY has a big disadvantage which you wouldn't think would be a problem
on the 6th Floor of Wadsworth Hall.  Looking north from the 6th floor
you have a great view of the campus, Portage Lake, and into the hill on
the other side of the lake.  Looking south the antenna points directly
into a hill.  Wadsworth Hall is built into that hill, in the front of
the building you enter on the ground floor but the rear entrances enter
between the 3rd and 4th floors.  Definitely no height advantage.





-----Original Message-----
From: miqp-mail-bounces at miqp.org [mailto:miqp-mail-bounces at miqp.org] On
Behalf Of David Pruett
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:14 PM
To: ke7dx at marketemporium.com
Cc: miqp-mail at miqp.org
Subject: Re: [MiQP-Mail] Michigan Tech

My favorite W8YY story came in the 2001 MiQP.

Ken, W8MJ and I were out covering all the U.P. counties mobile that 
year.  We were CQing away on 40M SSB while driging thru the middle of 
downtown Houghton, and all of a sudden the IC-756 S-meter slams hard 
against the pin and someone is asking "Where are you guys?".  I reply 
"This is K8CC mobile and we're in downtown Houghton".  The station 
calling us was W8YY, and the op immediately invited us to come visit 
them at their station.  Unfortunately. we had to decline their gracious 
invitation because we were on a tight schedule, on our way north thru 
town into Keewenaw County.

I'm don't recall whether W8YY actively participated in MiQP that year, 
but it was fun running into them nonetheless.

Dave/K8CC

Gary Keck, KE7DX wrote:
> I sent e-mails to all the folks I could find at W8YY asking if they
were
> going to be in MIQP 2010.  I got a null response.
>
> And Earl, MTU doesn't even have a hockey team that anyone cares about
any
> more....  :-(
>
> Morse, Earl (E.A.) wrote:
> As usual, everyone thinks there
> are only two universities in Michigan and forgets that Michigan
> Technological University exists.  Probably because we don't have
a
> football team that anyone cares about.  W8YY was 9YX when it was
first
> set up on campus in a coal bin in the EE building around the start of
> WWI.  Known for deep snow, professional beer drinking, and the
> hardiness of the UP population; MTU cranks out engineers like Paris
> Island cranks out US Marines.
>
> 73,
>
> +Gary Keck, KE7DX
> Chairman, Catalina Radio Club
> Arizona QSO Party Coordinator
> ARRL HF WAS Award Manager
>
>
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