[NLRS] Plans for January VHF SS

[John P. Toscano]

John (KC0LBT) keeps asking me what my plans are for the January VHF
Sweepstakes, since he and Jon (W0AMT) are planning a heavy-duty rover
fest and he wants to get me out there as a third station.

One unknown still plaguing me is the weather.  I can't assemble my
station inside a garage, so if the weather is nasty, I won't have the
ambition to climb up and down a slippery ladder and put together my
antenna array like last time in 20 below zero temps with a -50 wind
chill index.  Ok, nothing that bad seems to be forecast at the moment,
but my motto ever since moving to MN in 1978 has been, "If you don't
like the weather around here, wait a few minutes and it will change."
And of course, the skiers and snowmobilers have been praying for a
blizzard, and their prayers would probably be answered on the contest
weekend if Murphy gets his way.  (I do have all-wheel-drive in my
Safari Van, so I have a LITTLE extra margin there, but I shudder to
think of the antenna array I put up last time with a thick coating of
ice and snow on it. . .

One thing that might motivate me in the positive direction is knowing
that there will be some "big guns" out there working the contest in
earnest, whom I stand a chance of working on lots of bands from lots
of grids.  I got skunked in September, and a lot of that was due to
unforseen technical problems, but some of it was due to low levels of
activity in the metro area.
  http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tosca005/2002-09-VHF/index.htm

So what are the rest of you folks planning?  Any big fixed stations?
Any multi-ops?  Would anyone besides John & Jon care if I activated
EN13/14/23/24 early on Saturday, then EN15/16/25/26 late on Saturday,
then EN 33/34/43/44 on Sunday, on 50-2340 MHz, or some such thing?
(Or maybe do it the other way around, EN33-44 on Saturday, EN13-24
early on Sunday, and EN15-26 late on Sunday, possibly with a stop in
EN35 on the way back home.)

As John keeps pointing out to me, the contest will soon be upon us.
So who plans to put in a big effort on January 18th and 19th?

Of course, if anyone is going out roving, I'd love to hear about
their plans also, so that maybe our grid coverage could be somewhat
complementary rather than highly duplicative.

73 de W0JT (maybe /R, maybe not)