FOC Marathon ham to sign VQ5 from Turk and Caicos Islands

Jim, W9VNE, will be signing with a rarely used prefix VQ5 next weekend for a 48 hour period.

His main focus is to participate in the FOC Marathon (a members only event) on CW. Jim also knows that some prefix hunters will want to exchange reports as well, so he will be pleased to give any prefix hunter a report too.

Operation starts late Friday afternoon, February 2nd at 2100z through 2100z, February 4th.

The FOC Marathon is the annual on-the-air event for the "First Class Operator's Club (FOC). There are members throughout the world on all continents. The exchange for members is their membership number. For non-members an RST will suffice.

Jim has been an FOC member for more than 36 of his 68 years. Jim just celebrated his 54th anniversary of being a
ham. He was nominated to the FOC (in 1970) by W9IOP the first editor of CQ Magazine and K4FW the founder of Electro Voice and Ten Tec, as well as his long time mentor, W9VW. Jim operates this event and VQ5FOC in their memory.

The FOC Web site is available at: http://www.firstclasscw.org.uk/

See Jim's QTH at: http://www.vp5jm.com

QSL via W9VNE to: Jim Danehy, Box 54482, Cincinnati, Ohio 45254

Source: OPDX

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