[NLRS] Plans for January VHF SS

[Jon Platt]

John, go.   I'll work ya.

I plan to be on for the contest with 6m thru 2304.   On 902, the good news
is I believe I fixed my "bad ears" problem as the receive side has come to
life again.   The bad news is that I lost my 902 amp so just 5 watts on that
band unless I can come up with "Plan B" quickly.   Also my 1296 is acting
"weird", I plan to look at it today.    All other bands are on line and
tuned.

73, Jon
W0ZQ



----- Original Message -----
From: "John P. Toscano" <tosca005@tc.umn.edu>
To: <nlrs@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: [NLRS] Plans for January VHF SS


> 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)
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