Day 4:: Thursday, November 6th 2008

Yesterday we got up very early and started off on our way to Newington Ct. In Newington is the Headquarters of the ARRL. There is also the headquarters station W1AW. I did find out that people who work there use the callsign W1HQ.  We had a great tour of the offices. While I had already met several people over the years, it was nice to see them again at thier home office. The excitement started when we walked across the parking lot to the radio staion W1AW. The station has 5 monoband beams on 20M which turn all togther. Because of the closer location to europe compared to Michigan then coupled with the larger antennas I had an instant pileup of Europeans. There seemed to be pleny of Germans and Italians calling. I did work several other countries. Calling CQ/QRZ with W1AW for an hour was very simulair to my first time I was at K8CC another large station in Michigan where I was guest operating durring the CQ WW SSB contest one year. The stations at W1AW are very nice. They are using heil microphones which were donated by Bob Heil at Heil Sound. Thank you Bob.  So, after operating at W1AW we went to yet another outlet mall. This time I was able to find some clothes that I liked at the Tommy Hilfiger Store while Teresa found another purse of sorts at the Kate Spade store. THe last time that She seen a Kate Spade store was in Chicago. I think there is one in New York. We then came back to Mystic and we ate lunch at Friendly’s. This is a resraunt chain that used to be in Michigan a long time but for some reason it is not there any more. The food was good and the Ice Cream Sunday that we shared was even better. After lunch we decided to go ahead and get our nails done. For the fist time I had a manicure. I am feeling my femine side lol. My nails do feel clean now. We then returned to the hotel and later on the vening we decided to just go out on a evening jolt and we went 5 miles to the north and went across the state line to Rhode Island. We went just a few miles and came back.

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