<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The 2018 September VHF Preliminary Results have been posted - you can access them at:  </div><table style="font-size:14px;margin:1em 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:1em;vertical-align:top"><a href="https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2018/Sep-VHF-2018-PrelimFullResults.pdf">https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2018/Sep-VHF-2018-PrelimFullResults.pdf</a></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks to author Ralph “Gator” Bowen, N5RZ, for joining us to provide results for this event.  And we invite you to send Gator your feedback, observations or photos for his consideration for the Full Results write-up to follow (email him at <a href="mailto:wb5aar@gmail.com">wb5aar@gmail.com</a>).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The contest season is upon us - the ARRL 10 Meter Contest began at 0000 UTC today and runs through 2359 UTC Sunday.  If you get a chance, get on and have some Winter Contesting fun!  For more event info see <a href="http://www.arrl.org/10-meter">http://www.arrl.org/10-meter</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">And by the way, if you were on for the 2018 ARRL EME Contest weekends, be sure to send in your log entry - you can easily do so at  <a href="http://contests.arrl.org/arrlemescoresubmission.php">http://contests.arrl.org/arrlemescoresubmission.php</a> (just attach your log file in whatever format you have it in {shy of EXE or MDB which<font color="#000000"> don't upload due to virus potential}).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Wishing you all a Very Happy Holidays!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Thanks for participating!</font></p>

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