[MCARC] [Fwd: Winter Heat is Starting Again tonight at 18:00 00:00 Zulu]

Sat Dec 31 11:43:31 EST 2022

I kind of forgot about this going on last year.  I think I scanned the
frequency but didn't hear anything.  Maybe some better propagation will
come around this year, especially with the storm system moving in
tomorrow evening.

This actually begins tonight at 6 PM (0000z 01 Jan 2023) per:
https://hamactive.com/WH23/index.php and
https://hamactive.com/WH23/Guidelines.php

The latter page shows the designated simplex frequencies.  It might not
hurt to put them in the scan list.

73, Nate

----- Forwarded message from Robert Everley <kc0vys at gmail.com> -----

Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:26:42 -0600
From: Robert Everley <kc0vys at gmail.com>
Subject: Winter Heat is Starting Again tonight at 18:00 00:00 Zulu

To all of the members of Winter Heat last year I had in my list of Kansas
and Missouri participants here is a letter I sent out to a few of you just
last week.

I'm setting up a better permanent antenna here at home in Overland Park
just East of the downtown area on 78th Ter aty my QTH.
It is a Comet GP-9 dual band which has a great footprint pattern. I should
be able to reach out to many of you directly from here.

I will also be up on the hill at 76th Mission Road by the PV water tower
from time to time, mobile, so from there I can also get a nice footprint
too.

Here is my previously posted E-Mail...

Steve   KC0VYS     Feel free to text me with your name and callsign so I
can enter into my message list.
For those who might like to participate in a  GROUP TEXT  message we can
let others know who is out.

All I ask is that you  *NOT  NOT   NOT  hit  REPLY  or   REPLY TO AL**L*
for the message as it will send another group
blurb to everyuone,, Hitting reply to answer group messages creats a huge
volume of messages to everyone
and can annoy some people greatly.  Just create a different message and
text them directly for replying.  By doing this
others can see when you are on and get on  *147.525*  as our initial
calling frequency.

==================================

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 10:13 Robert Everley <kc0vys at gmail.com> wrote:

A question was asked and I decided to CC those of you who have contacted me
> about Winter Heat. So here is a CC list of who is already wanting to
> participate.
> Feel Free to use the list to help WORK the members during the month.  This
> is a little blurb on how we might get started. Any suggestions or comments
> you can reply to ALL and we can start working on how best to do daily
> contacts with each other.
>

> Here is a Current list of 2023 listed in WH on their website.
>

> KS:   KC0VYS, KB0TOT, K0KCK, K2SCT, W0PT, KE0HOL, K0CCP
> MO:   KA0SOG, KF0HUR, W0MBC, W4XJ, KF0KPA, KC0QIG, KD0MQO, KE0VCD, K0LBR,
> W0PGH, KC4CAD.
>
> I got the above list from the RED dots on the WH website under
> participants. Have not contacted everyone yet. If you know any of them,
> have them give me a gingle.
> -------------
>
> *Garey;  In reply to your question of why we can start to log on Dec 31st
> at 18:00 local KC time..*
>
>
> According to the WinterHeat system you can start logging on January 1st at
> 00:00 Zulu. For us here in the Central Time Zone that is 6pm on December
> 31st.
> It also cuts us off on January 31st at 6:01pm because at 00:01 Zulu we are
> on February 1st.
>
> Still a full month's of logging but just because we are all logging using
> Zulu as does most logging systems it happens to cut you off a little early
> locally.
> This also helps if people want to upload logs to QRZ or LoTw for contacts
> they made who also upload to those programs.
>
>  MY THOUGHT IS:
>
>  I'd like to have people who have some listening time to be on the air at
> times during the event and can help make contacts with others.
> Kind of a Net Control but not really a NC. Just there in case others call
> in. I would suggest that we ALL monitor 147.525 for calls
> and then work them on other freq's as you two have available.  We do have
> 13 places we can make contacts but not everyone has all of the
> band capabilities.  Everyone should download the Freq List from  "
> https://hamactive.com/WH23/Guidelines.php  "
>
> The log at WH changes every day at 6pm our time so we need to be aware of
> the fact that if you contact someone at 6:20pm local, you are on the next
> day's log time.
>
> You also have to enter your logs during the day you make them.  So IF you
> happen to log someone here in KC at 5:55pm / 17:55 local / you only have 5
> minutes to get them logged into WH logs.
> Therefore, it is nice during that last hour if you happen to be mobile and
> can't reach the WH website to log the contact in then it might be nice if
> the other contact is able to log the
> QSO and get it in the logbook.  Makes no difference who enters it in the
> log; it just needs to get in before the cutoff. You can verify days after
> you just can't enter yesterday's contacts.
>
> So GANG:  keep in touch and let's get the ball rolling. We have about 20
> people thus far in the WH system here locally so we really need to create a
> way we ALL can reach each other
> every day.  Since we all have different schedules it will be a task but
> I'd really like the KC group to score a little higher this year in the
> overall stats. Going to be hard to compete with
> some of the Illinois groups of hams who have a high concentration of
> people close to each other.
>
> Last year I did a road trip to Michigan and did 15 contacts while driving
> through Northern Missouri and Illinois. Distance from our home QTH is not a
> restriction on who we can contact.
> However, when it logged my contacts with them it did use my home as a
> starting point so it looked like I had some really distant contacts.  If
> you have a BEAM and can point it to St. Louis
> you might be able to get some LD contacts from there if the band opens
> up.  Look at the VHF propagation tab on the WH website and see where there
> are 2m openings.
>
> OK, Enough for now let me get this off and we all can start working on a
> PLAN...
>
> We could also use texting to the group if those of us who want to share
> our phone numbers with each other.  You could text ahead of time saying I'm
> going to be out at XX:XX time
> listen in....   FOOD FOR THOUGHT..
>
>
> Steve Everley   Downtown OP Kansas.   KC0VYS     913-549-6703
>

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