Venturing Crew 73

SKYWARN Recognition Day, Dec. 6, 2003 -- Another great success!

The Fort Worth National Weather Service office participated in its fourth Skywarn Recognition Day. With the help of 33 operators, several stations were kept going the full 24 hours, including HF phone, PSK-31, APRS, local FM repeaters and IRLP/Echolink.

A total of 608 QSOs were made by WX5FWD. A copy of the log file is located at HERE If you worked WX5FWD, please check that your call has been entered correctly and notify kr1zan@arrl.net if you find any errors.

A QSL card from WX5FWD may be obtained by sending your QSL card and a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope (SASE) to:

WX5FWD SRD

c/o KR1ZAN

1005 Talley Rd

Garland, TX 75044

A certificate from the National Weather Service is also available. Information on the certificate is available at: http://hamradio.noaa.gov

WX5FWD used its new HF station which was implemented as an Eagle Scout project by David Darrow, a member of Venturing Crew 73, Richardson, TX. The transceiver is a Kenwood TS-440S and the antenna is a G5RV. Several additional antennas are planned in the near future.

Summary of WX5FWD, 2003 SRD
608 QSOs
547 unique call signs
49 states
3 foreign countries
45 Weather Service Offices
QSOs per Band
70cm 6
2m 128
10m 50
15m 22
20m 194
40m 41
80m 47
APRS 50
ECHOLINK 20
IRLP 40
RAILS 7
WRG 3

(Tentative analysis done 12/10/03)