[NLRS] The Road to Rovermania V

[W0ZQ at aol.com]

Hello NLRS land.  

It really didn't occur to me until later in  the day, but we sure had a very 
good showing of rovers at Aurora'08 yesterday  !!    In attendance was 
K0MHC/R, KC0IYT/R, K9JK/R, WB8BZK/R,  W0ZQ/R, W9FZ/R, N9TTX/R, WA0VPJ/R, W0JT/R, and 
probably a few others that I  missed.   
 
This summer represents the fifth year of Rovermania ! and its like no  other 
event.  As Rich, N0HJZ, stated in his comments on winning the  Wesslund Award, 
"there are grids all around us just waiting to be  activated".  The ARRL's 
UHF contest (Rovermania V this year), is  August 2 and 3.  Remember that this is 
a short 24 hr contest and is  222 and up.  Because of the ever increasing 
local and regional activity and  because of the "smallish" UHF antennas, its 
August UHF contest is arguably  the premier roving contest.  Although gas prices 
will definitely be a  hindrance, several of the rovers that I talked to at 
Au'08 said that they  would be out and about for Rovermania V, possibly using the 
June VHF  contest for a tune up.  I know that W0ZQ/R will be out and about  
August 2 & 3.  
 
Although its a busy summer ahead of us, please consider targeting August 2  & 
3 in your calendars and give some thought to pursuing station improvements  
on 222 and up.  
 
Last, we all agreed that we missed having a multi-op station, perhaps from  
Buck Hill.   "Us rovers" would really really really like to see an  effort to 
establish a mult-op this year, again perhaps from Buck Hill (or  elsewhere).  I 
have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that such an effort  could easily place 
very high in that category !   Give it some  thought - there is spare equipment 
& antennas around so doing this is more  of an organizational challenge than 
anything else.
 
73, Jon
W0ZQ/R 





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