[NLRS] Contest

[Duane Grotophorst]

And those of us on the other side of MSP to the
southeast will have even less of a chance to hear you
(or you hear us) if you stick to .200. A good strategy
to do when it gets quiet on your prefered non .200
frequency is to go back to .200 stir up the bees nest
and then QSY up or down the band 20 or 30 Khz right
away, everyone will follow. As you do that be sure to
ID profusely and state your QSY to frequency and
intended actions equally profusely. There's nothing
more frustrating than tuning around the band to hear
signals and infrequent ID's or someone say "see you on
band X" but no actual frequency.

Duane
N9DG
EN53bj

--- Jon Platt <jon.platt@gte.net> wrote:
> Hi Ross, we will be looking for ya in this weekends
> contest.     As you may
> guess, 144.200 can be somewhat of a zoo here in the
> cities.  I seldom call
> CQ on 144.200 but instead looking up or down 10 to
> 20 KHz to call CQ ....
> for example 144.180 or 185, or 144.215, etc.   I
> understand why you may need
> to monitoring 144.200, but you may want to swish
> your VFO up & down a bit
> every once in a while just to check.
> 
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ross Vaagen" <rvaagen@702com.net>
> To: "NLRS" <nlrs@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:05 PM
> Subject: [NLRS] Contest
> 
> 
> > I will be on the air for the contest on 6,2, and
> 432 from EN16. Plans are
> to
> > beam SE and scan the band for anybody making
> contacts and calling cq on
> > 144.200. I don't hear much on any other
> frequencies in the rural ND/SD/MN
> > area so hope to catch you on your calling freq or
> on 144.200.
> >
> > 6m    250 watts  4 element at 50 ft
> > 2m    250 watts  17 element at 54 ft
> > 432   100 watts  19 element at 58 ft
> >
> > 73's and good luck
> >
> > Ross   /       N0MSS
>

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