[OKDXA] ARRL Centennial activity - W1AW/5

[Connie Marshall]

Sorry we missed the event this year, but sounds like you had good
attendance. Pam and I did have some fun with the US counties QSO party. We
worked Jerry (K5YAA) mobile to mobile several times. Sure is good to hear
Jerry back on the air. We all so worked him on Six meters.

Pam and I would be interested in hosting the W1AW/5 call sign. We don't want
to hog the operation So do you think the ARRL would go for more than just
one station on the air. I don't mean having two different stations on
simultaneously but split the operation between two or three stations for the
first week, and again during the second week. Our station can support two
simultaneous operators on any mode.

73,

Connie, K5CM


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Subject: [OKDXA] ARRL Centennial activity - W1AW/5


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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