[CALV-AUXCOMM] NVIS Antenna Day - Saturday April 22

[Shawn Donley]

All,


Below is the information I received from Stan, N8BHL, concerning the upcoming NVIS Antenna Day this Saturday, April 22nd.  The 40M and 80M activity will occur between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm.   This is an Ohio ARES event but we should be able to make some contacts with them, if not by NVIS then sky wave.  We're right at the edge (distance wise) for NVIS to Ohio.  Consider it a work-up for field day !


We'll discuss this at the Calvert AUXCOMM meeting Tuesday evening.  Several folks expressed interest in participating during this evening's CARA net.   Items which need closure:


1.  Location for our operation (Mt Hope,  local park like King's Landing, other? )

2.  HF transceiver - who can bring one.  Plan is to operate at 100W per event guidance.

3.  NVIS antenna(s) - can try several - who has one and can bring to the event?

4.  Power source - I can bring a large deep cycle 12V battery which should support a 100W radio for the event.

5.  Logging - paper log probably sufficient

6.  Include digital modes?   Olivia 8-500 is suggested in the plan, plus PSK31.   Means we need a computer.  Anyone familiar with Olivia?


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>From Ohio AEC, Stan, N8BHL:


I know you’ve been waiting on this!  Here’s the official bulletin for NVIS Day this coming Saturday, April 22! 


Ohio NVIS Day Bulletin


Here are the details of our operation this Saturday, April22. Are you ready? 

Email your station logs to nvis at k8es.org mailto:nvis at k8es.org


Operation is from 10 – 4 EDT.   Take a lunch break, enjoy each other’s company.  Transmit power should stay at 100 watts for accurate signal comparison. You may operate anywhere, home, club, portable.


We are segmenting the bands during the day to increase the probability of contacts and make it easier for antenna experiments:

10 – 12N              80 meters:   Centered around 3.920

12N – 2                40 meters: Centered around 7.240

2 – 4                     160 / 60 meters:  Any part of the phone band on 160.  Try to stay on Channel 3-5 on 60. Be careful of tuning.  (Note the OHDEN frequency on 60, might be a place to start!)


Anchors:

W8EOC will be operating from Medina County EOC

W8SGT will be operating from the Ohio EOC

N8BHL will be operating from Delaware

W8ERD will operate from Ostrander (west of Delaware)


Digital:

OHDEN will be in operation for NVIS day.   Operator are urged to try digital modes on 40, 60, and 80 meters!


Frequencies:

80 meters:  3.585  (voice coordination if necessary: 3605)

60 meters:  Channel 5403.5

40 meters: 7.046


Plan to send and receive messages:

THE PRIMARY MODE WILL BE OLIVIA 8-500 BUT WE WILL ACCEPT CHECK INS ON PSK31 AS WELL. WE WILL START ON 40 METERS AND MOVE TO 60 OR 80 IF SKIP DICTATES. I WILL NEED A COUPLE OF STATIONS AS VOLUNTEER NCS SCHEDULED DURING THE DAY.

I WILL EMAIL ONE OF THREE TEST MESSAGES TO EACH COUNTY CONTROL STATION PARTICIPANT. THE OBJECTIVE WILL BE TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO AS MANY COUNTIES AS YOU CAN AND RECEIVE ALL THREE. WHEN YOUR STATION CHECKS INTO THE NET YOU WILL LIST YOUR MESSAGE NUMBER AND THOSE THAT YOU NEED YET TO RECEIVE. THE MESSAGES WILL BE SHORT AND ONLY STRUCTURED TO GIVE PRACTICE IN ESTABLISHING CONTACT AND PASSING THEM.

AT END OF EVENT, PLEASE INCLUDE COPIES WITH YOUR CONTACT LOG EMAIL (ABOVE) AND EMAIL COPIES OF ALL MESSAGES RECEIVED TO W5UHQ at ARRL.NET mailto:W5UHQ at ARRL.NET