[OKDXA] ARRL Centennial activity - W1AW/5

W5LE w5le at beggstelco.net
Mon Jul 29 15:56:58 EDT 2013


I was contacted by Dave Patton, NN1N, at ARRL and asked if the OKDXA 
would be interested
in participating in their centennial event in 2014.  For those of you 
who were in attendance at the forum
at Ham Holiday in Oklahoma City, Coy, N5OK, covered a lot of the 
specifics but I wanted to elaborate
a bit.
They're looking for stations from Oklahoma to be active for 2 weeks, 
using the callsign W1AW/5,  separated by several months between the 
activations so as to allow those who missed Oklahoma on the first pass 
to have a second chance.
Ideally, I think it would work best if we could do this in such a way as 
to have a designated station in the Oklahoma City
area for one of the activations, and a station in the Tulsa area for the 
other activation.  Whichever station agrees to
be the designated station will need to be willing to not only get on the 
air as much as possible during their week, preferably making it a point 
to operate all the requested modes,  SSB, CW and digital, but the 
station will also need to allow guest operators to come over to their 
station to operate W1AW/5, in order to keep the callsign on the air as 
much as possible.  An adif log file would need to be sent to me at the 
end of each operation.
I'd welcome hearing from any of you who feels they could be the 
designated station for your area.  If no one else indicates interest 
from the Tulsa area, I'll be glad to operate, and to allow guest 
operators to operate, at my QTH in Mounds.
Please let me know what week you could operate as W1AW/5 and I'll 
cross-check it with the other stations who are committed to putting 
their states on the air.  I think they'd like to avoid overlap of state 
activation weeks as much as possible so as to narrow the focus to the 
particular state that's on the air.
73 and see  you in the pileups.
Gene W5LE



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