[NLRS] Contest weekend & W0ZQ, W0ZQ/R

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

There's a couple inches of white on the ground and the new flakes are 
falling a foot for each four feet traveled horizontally so the 
distribution by tomorrow when the snow stops falling isn't going to be 
uniform. The forecast yesterday didn't mention wind but the temperature 
is low enough the flakes are fluffy. The last I looked EN22, 32, and 42 
were the prime targets, maybe EN41 with 5 to 7" forecast yesterday for 
today. Knowing the latest forecast doesn't enhance life so I'm ignoring 
it. I'm sure I'll hear plenty on the noon farm news broadcast.

I'm not getting along with my rotor direction indicator so it takes 
wandering outside to check the VHF/UHF antenna direction. There's a 
chance I'll be listening on 2m and 6m. My 6m/HF antenna is outside now 
and so I might be able to work some aurora, we'll see.

I won't be at WB0BQV like I did for the Sept contest (and won the 
midwest division for limited multiop).

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 1/20/2012 9:12 AM, w0zq at aol.com wrote:
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> Hello NLRS land
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Good luck to every one this weekend.  Get on, make a some Q's, and send in a log.
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> PS:  I updated the W0UC spreadsheet with this info.
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> 73, Jon
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