[AK-VHF] THREE WEEKS - Jan ARRL VHF Contest

[Ken K]

I've been thinking about roving for the VHF contest next weekend. Not as far as my Homer-Fairbanks runs from 2010-2011, but I was planning on going far enough south to activate some different grids on 2m for the Anchorage/Kenai hams to work. I was also thinking about trying some MS on 6m Sunday morning here from Fairbanks. I've never used MSK144, but looks like fun. Fbks-Anc approximately 300 miles, which seems to be right at the minimum for successful MS work....?
But a cold snap is in the Interior forecast starting this weekend and into next week, down to minus 30 or colder. That puts a damper on getting the truck ready, not to mention traveling in that weather. So I'll know more next week, and will post here if I decide to go.
73, Ken  NL7B
 

    On Friday, December 30, 2016 10:38 AM, Paul Kiesel via ak-vhf <ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
 

 Hi Chris and all AVG members,

I suggest you sign your email to the list with your call. I looked your name up on QRZ as it was the quickest to access at the time and found three Christopher Browns listed in Alaska! Any close relationships, I wonder? Anyway, I concluded that it was you as the others are in White Mountain and Juneau. Checked the club roster and found WL7CLA there, too.

Anyway, I wanted to say that I love to see digital activity building among members of the club as useful modes additional to CW, SSB and FM. MSK144 has quickly replaced FSK441 as the major mode for meteor scatter. When set up for automatic QSO completion, it does all the work for you. Pretty cool. JT65 and now QRA64 are the weak signal workhorses. They are very effective for moonbounce work and also for marginal sporadic-E and tropo openings when CW and SSB modes are just not enough to get the information through.

Speaking of sporadic-E... There is a minor sporadic-E season during the winter months. Something to keep your eye on while looking for contacts during the contest. It never hurts to call a few CQs with the beam pointed southeast.

Good luck to all in the contest and have fun!

73, Paul K7CW
AVG Contest Guy
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On Fri, 12/30/16, Christopher Brown <cbrown at woods.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [AK-VHF] THREE WEEKS - Jan ARRL VHF Contest
 To: ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net
 Date: Friday, December 30, 2016, 2:43 AM
 
 
 I will
 be on 6M, 2M, 70cm SSB/FM + 220 on FM.  Might have low
 power 23cm
 as well.
 
 If there is interest, I can do
 JT65/QRA64/MSK144 on 6M and could be
 setup
 for same on 2M and 70cm if there is interest.  Limited to
 50w 6M
 and 25w 70cm on those duty cycles but
 can run 500w on 2M if called for.
 
 
 On 12/30/16 00:12, Edward R
 Cole wrote:
 > Jan. 21-22 10am Saturday to
 7pm Sunday (AKST) is the January ARRL VHF Contest.
 > 
 > Time to check out
 that VHF/UHF gear to be ready.  I do not know if 
 > any rovers will get out in middle of
 winter but cold wx often 
 > produces
 really good tropo-propagation in the form of inversion 
 > layers over Cook Inlet.  So good contest
 to try 144-1296.  6m solar 
 > activity
 is usually low unless Aurora happens.
 >
 
 > Meteor scatter, eme, and digital modes
 are allowed but no use of 
 > satellites,
 repeaters or digi-peaters.  No aviation mobile.  But just
 
 > about any other form of mobile is
 allowed: snow-mobile, dog sled, 
 > ski,
 snow shoe all fine...plus your usual mobile.
 > 
 > CW/SSB/FM simplex. 
 See the suggested calling frequency table: 
 > http://www.qsl.net/ak-vhf/
 > 
 > Time to TALK UP the
 contest!  Full regulations: 
 > http://www.qsl.net/a/ak-vhf//Contests/
 >
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > FINAL Net of 2016 on Dec. 31 at 9am using
 146.58 FM
 > 
 > 73, Ed
 - KL7UW
 >    http://www.kl7uw.com
 > Dubus-NA Business mail:
 >    dubususa at gmail.com
 
 > 
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