[NLRS] W9FZ/R September VHF rove is on!

[Bruce Richardson]

Hello NLRS'ers:

I'll be out roving after all!  In January, I activated the 9 grids that
surround and include EN34.  I made over 700 Q's.  It was great fun and I
highly recommend it to anyone.  This September, I intended to rove to more
distant places and leave the 9-grid EN34 and surrounding rove to
W0AMT/NG0R or other energetic/aggressive rovers so that they'd get the
fun.  But it seems noone is doing EN34 and surrounding for September--so I
will!  One of the low-lights of the January contest was not working very
many diverse grids.  Most of the Q's were with EN34--partly due to
conditions and partly due to pointing there so much.

My goal is to top my January effort on QSO volume AND on grids.  For QSO
volume, it REALLY helps when there are more well equipped multi-band
stations on the air in the region. So instead of just W0ZQ and W0GHZ and
N0KP clean sweeping me in every grid, to also have many other calls like
N0MR, W0JT, K0SHF, N0HJZ--and MANY others.  But it also means I need to
work K0AWU and KM0T many more times than in the past.  When the band opens
up to the NW like EN16 and EN18, I need to hear about it and turn around
and work them too.  When I'm in SE Minnesota, I need to make a GOOD effort
on working Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa grids wise.

So, I'll be on 6-2304 plus 10G.  I intend to try 10G more than in
January--time permitting. Heck, the weather is much better than in
January.  The CQ'ing freq I'll use is 144.240.  Please look for me there. 
I do my best to stay off of .200 because I feel that is in everybodies
best interest.  If .240 is already taken "in this region"--please let me
know.  I intend to carry to .140 on all bands above 2m and probably .240
(or .205) on 6m.

Here's the plan:
(times are ZULU)

Saturday
EN45  1800-1930  SW corner
EN44  2200-2400  SW corner
EN43  0000-0200  NW corner
EN33  0200-0400  NE corner

Sunday
EN23  1300-1500  NE corner (Beaufort)
EN24  1500-1700  SE corner (Beaufort)
EN25  2000-2200  SE corner (Dog Lake)
EN35  2300-0030  Ridgeway/Stinson downtown MSP
EN34  0100-0300  Flying Cloud Airport

If running behind, I'll do EN35 and EN34 from the Dog Lake corner.

I appreciate any Q's you make with me.  I hope to clean sweep with many of
you.  EN45 will be tough.  My location for EN45 is not that good.

Hope all my equipment works!  I have been away at the farm and not seen
all the rover plans for the region.  If my plan seems to conflict with
another rovers plans, please bring it to my attention--thanks.


Bruce Richardson W9FZ