[NLRS] Rovermania II, it begins.

[jcplatt1 at mmm.com]

Now that the June VHF contest is behind us, its time to look forward to the
ARRL UHF contest and Rovermania II.    Many of you will remember Rovermania
I and the huge activity that it generated last year.   That activity
brought several first place finishes to the Upper Midwest.

Based upon our postmortem from last year, we learned that some things
worked well, and other things did not.   Learning from this, I would like
to do the following:

1) Generate a master rover plan.    Each rover should provide AN
APPROXIMATE plan for what grids they are going to activate and what bands
they have.    This plan will allow everyone else to track them and to plan
their activities.    Yes, plans change, and that is expected and accepted !

2)  Generate a master list of primary frequencies for each rover for 222
and 432.    This is where the rover hangs out, and no, they are no way
limited in staying solely on that frequency !     They can go yell on
222.100 or 432.100 all they want.    Last year I think we spread out too
much with 10 KHz spacing.   This year I propose we go with 5 KHz spacing
perhaps using the frequencies 15 up and 15 down from the calling freq (ex:
222.115 and up, 222.085 and down).

I will collect and publish Rovermania information.    No Rover plan is too
big or too small !

To get the ball rolling, here is the preliminary ZQ/R plans:

   W0ZQ/R
   Grids : Start in EN22/23/32/33 Grid Corner, then EN12, EN13, EN14, EN15,
   end in EN24/25/34/35 Grid Corner (a repeat of last year)
   Bands : 222, 432, 902, 1296, 2304, 3456, 5760, 10g, 24g.
   Freq :  222.250, 432.250

Feed me your rover plans and I'll add them to the list.   As the plans
mature, let me know if you also have estimated times in each grids and I'll
add that to the list.

73, Jon
W0ZQ