[Elecraft] Thinking of activities for Alaska QRP Club - Alaska Fox Hunt

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:58:55AM -0800, Jim Larsen wrote:
> Greetings from Alaska,
> 
> I have been thinking of running a one time (at least to start) Alaska Fox 
> Hunt on 20 meters.  The plan is to enlist AK QRP Club members to operate a 
> given 2 hour period with from one up to five or more Foxes spread from .050 
> to .065. We would use the same format of RST, S/P/C, power out.  I have 
> some ideas for awards for the top couple of contestants.  Nothing major, 
> but something fun and nice.
> 
> A question.  Is it legal to run a 2-3 watt beacon, fully attended, on 20 
> meters say about 14.064 for up to four hours at a time?  I am trying to 
> nail down the best time from east to west coast on average to run this fox 
> thingy. Perfection may be impossible but we must try.  :-)

Per 97.203, that sounds perfectly legal, as long as it is attended.

> 
> The Alaska QRP Club meeting is this Friday and I plan to bring up this 
> idea. I hope there are a few takers and suspect there will be.  I know my 
> Elecraft K2 is itching to work a few more stations and I know KL7IKV, Lynn, 
> has his K2 up and running with DSP, AL7OK has a K1, and others have varying 
> QRP capabilities from Century 22s to turned down QRO rigs to 817s.  Of 
> course we Alaskan would precoordinate the frequencies.  We might even try 
> to get a Juneau QRP operator to hedge our bets on propagation.  There is a 
> QRPer on Kodiak Island (quiet spot) and down on the Kenai Peninsula.
> 
> Shall we try it?

Sounds like fun to me.

73,
Bob, N7XY