[NLRS] Question about roving on Sunday, June 9

[David Palm]

This got pushed down the stack, but thank for the nice memory, Tim!  Yeah,
that was fun and I think this graduation rove will be too.

Christopher isn't quite sure what he wants to do right now, but he's
inclining toward teaching.  We'll see!

73 and hope to catch you in the contest,

David  W9HQ


On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 4:02 PM <aduhawk at comcast.net> wrote:

> I remember the time that you rover with your son right after HS
> graduation.  PhD next?
>
> Tim, K0PG
> > On June 3, 2019 at 1:07 PM David Palm <thepalmhq at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Friends,
> >
> > Our plan for this weekend's contest is to operate from the home QTH at
> > EN43oq for at least several hours on Saturday.  I've repaired my rotor,
> > repaired the feed line on 432, and hope tonight to repair the driven
> > element on my 222 MHz quagi.  That should put us on 50-144-222-432 from
> the
> > base station.  We'll try to get on the air right at contest start time
> and
> > hopefully will have at least three hams in the house, so extra points
> using
> > the family rule.
> >
> > I'm hoping to rove with my son Christopher, KC9JTL, on Sunday.  He and I
> > have had some good times doing that in the past.  He's just graduated
> from
> > college and is spending some time at home, so this may be our last
> > opportunity to rove together.  We probably won't have 222 for the rove.
> >
> > We'll be shooting for the grid corner at St. Charles, MN.  My question is
> > what time would be best, earlier or later?  We could go to an earlier
> Mass
> > than usual and make it to that corner around 1:00 pm and operate for a
> few
> > hours.  Alternatively, we could go to our normal Mass and get there
> around
> > 4:00 pm and again operate for a few hours.  Looking for advice on which
> > would likely net us more activity.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > David  W9HQ
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