[NLRS] Contest weekend & W0ZQ, W0ZQ/R

[Zack Widup]

The weather here for the weekend still appears to be optimistic in the
forecast; however, today's isn't. We're supposed to have 1 to 2 inches of
snow/freezing rain/ice by tonight.

 Provided the roads are in decent shape tomorrow morning, I'll still make
the 45 mile trek to the hill in EN50rl and set up as a Single-Op Portable.
I just hope there is little wind and my antennas can stay up for the
duration.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:12 AM, <w0zq at aol.com> wrote:

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> Hello NLRS land
>
> It looks to be an interesting weekend coming up.  The ARRL January VHF
> contest begins at 1900 UTC (1:00 PM local) on Saturday, ends 0359 UTC
> Sunday night.  The CME is predicted to impact on Saturday at 22:30 UT (+/-
> 7 hrs), which, if it happens, is great timing for the contest.  Then on
> Saturday night through Sunday the weather man has been suggesting the
> possibility of some freezing drizzle/rain and maybe some snow.   Rovers and
> yagis don't like freezing drizzle/rain, so lets hope this doesn't happen.
>
> I plan to operate my home station for much of the contest; EN34it on 6m
> through 3456.   If the weather permits, I plan to do a mini-rove on Sunday
> morning starting at 11:00am.  The first stop will be Burnsville Parkway
> (EN34is) to try to work Bill, K0AWU, on 10 GHz.  It looks like a few other
> Gigaheads may be joining me.  After that, I'll be looking for Q's from
> any/all that can hear me.  Here is what I'll probably be running - its not
> my usual rover set-up:
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> 6m  100 watt into vertical
> 2m  40 watts into 4 element   144.235
> 222  10 watts into 3 element
> 432  10 watts into omni
> 5760  2 watts 27 dBi
> 10G   6 watts 31 dBi
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> Around 12:00 noon or so, weather permitting, I will move up to Stinson
> Parkway, EN35ja.  After that, depending on activity levels and the weather,
> I may head out to the Winsted area for EN25 and EN24 before returning home
> to operate the end of the contest from there.
>
> Good luck to every one this weekend.  Get on, make a some Q's, and send in
> a log.
>
> PS:  I updated the W0UC spreadsheet with this info.
>
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
>
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