[AK-VHF] Kenai POTA Run

Mon Sep 19 15:29:18 EDT 2022

I would love to go and do this. I wont be available for a week or so in October (I think the 3rd week), otherwise I can go anytime on the weekends. 
Any thoughts on having one day where we try and get the rapid deployment awards? With multiple people it wouldn't be hard to work up the ladder of the awards:
    Warthog Award: two RaDAR* transitions at or between entities during a 24 hour period.
    Rhino Award: three RaDAR* transitions at or between entities during a 24 hour period.
    Cheetah Award: five RaDAR* transitions at or between entities during a 24 hour period
    Ostrich Award: seven RaDAR* transitions at or between entities during a 24 hour period.
    Leopard Award: ten RaDAR* transitions at or between entities during a 24 hour period.
    Lion Award: twelve RaDAR* transitions at or between entities during a 24 hour period

I don't know what gear people would be bringing, but of the good portable gear, I have a dualband rollup J-pole, a 40/20/15/10 wire fan dipole, HF radio, and probably most importantly a Panasonic toughbook computer. We can use my toughbook and not worry about breaking it. It's been left out in the rain during camping, and for hours in the snow. It has GPS built in, which will help for FT8 accurate clock time, but I haven't dealt with actually accessing its GPS chipset. 
I don't know what the plan is on camping, but I also have a 6 person 4 season tent with cots and any other needed camping gear if anybody wants to go and is light on camping gear. 

73,
Jason A. Thomas, N4IJB
11337 Dawn St Apt A
Eagle River, AK 99577
(704) 734-8423

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------- Original Message -------
On Monday, September 19th, 2022 at 10:53, Brandon Clark via ak-vhf <ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Hello group,
> 
> Work has been nuts lately, and I missed the September VHF contest. I've been itching to get back out on the air though, and am thinking about doing a weekend run down the Kenai to activate a handful of POTA sites. (Date still TBD, but would be no later than October.)
> 
> This would be a mix of HF, VHF, and UHF operating. Anyone else interested in joining in?
> 
> Brandon Clark, KL7BSC https://brandonclarklabs.com/
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