N5NTG | 
12 6th, 2008| 
Local radio operators manned the radio station inside the National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, TX from 6pm Friday (Dec. 5th) thru 6pm Saturday (Dec. 6th) in two hour shifts.
I’ll update this report once I receive more details, but my wife (Pat Knight AD5BR) and I (Lee Besing N5NTG) were there Friday from 6pm – 10:30pm, along with J.C. Smith N5RXS, Lew Archer KD5MSW, Bob Hejl W2IK and visitation from Danny McCarty WA5KRP and Chuck Kenworthy WB5FWI.
J.C. N5RXS started out the operations by tagging onto the end of the Arkansas Razorback Net on HF, telling the Net Control what he was doing tonight and asking that stations interested in talking with this NWS stay on frequency afterward. The calls stacked. Then he moved over to the Texas Traffic Net and repeated that technique. He quickly filled up almost 4 pages of log sheets, with 14 contacts per sheet.
Then comes Bob W2IK. The reluctant Bob. Pat AD5BR talked him into getting on the radio after he first resisted the idea, and he quickly filled up about 3 sheets of contacts in about 45 minutes. This guy knows how to work a contest, even when it wasn’t really a “contest per se”. He staked out a heavily used area on the HF band, started talking, and started logging contact after contact.
