[KL7AA] ARRL VHF+ Party this weekend

[kl7yk]

The Sept ARRL VHF+ Contest starts this coming Saturday at 1800UTC. This 
event happens 3 times a year, January, June and September.

Even if your not into contesting your fellow area hams would love to log 
you for this event.

This contest covers 6 meters, 2 meters, 1.25 meters, 70 cm, 23 cm and 
up.  Any mode so even your monoband FM HT will work!  For the Tech's out 
there, this one is perfect for you as you can operate everywhere the 
contest covers.

Frequencies used in the South Central AK area are below.  No repeaters, 
all simplex.  Do not use the 2m calling frequency of 146.52!

If we had a larger group of people operating in the area on simplex we 
would avoid any calling frequency.  But this is not a big lower 48 
city.  So except for 2m the other calling frequencies are quite dead 
except on for Tuesday night for an hour (South Central Simplex Net).

There will be stations on from the Kenai, the Valley and of course here 
in Anchorage.  You do not need to submit a log unless you want to. As a 
group we appreciate the additional contacts we can log when more folks 
chime in.  Listen up for stations calling CQ CONTEST starting 1800UTC 
Saturday (10am local).  As they shift to new bands they will announce 
where they are heading.

Exchange is easy enough a signal report (usually 59 since we are simplex 
and fairly close) and your Grid Sq.  Kenai is BP40 or BP50 depending if 
your east or west, Valley is BP41, and Anchorage is BP51.  More info is 
at "http://www.qsl.net/a/ak-vhf//Contests/". Unsure where you are Grid 
wise?  Try this link- "http://www.n6spd.com/grids/usgridsq_2.jpg".

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Suggested operating frequencies
BAND 	CW/SSB FREQ 	ANT POLARITY 	FM FREQ 	ANT POLARITY
6M 	50.110/50.125 	HORZ 	50.30 	VERT
2M 	144.200 	VERT 	146.58 	VERT
1.25M 	222.100 	VERT 	223.50 	VERT
70CM 	432.200 	VERT 	446.00 	VERT
33CM 	NONE 	VERT 	927.50 	VERT
23CM 	1296.100 	VERT 	1294.50 	VERT

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Hope to hear your call this weekend!  Most activity occurs between 
10:00am-1:00pm on Saturday, then its scattered for the afternoon. Sunday 
sees scattered operations until the contest ends at 7pm AK time.


Ron Keech, KL7YK