[PVRCNC] 13 Colonies Special Event

[Nathan moreschi]

Mark,
I'm very interested - I would happily activate K2J during that time period. Band and Mode does not matter to me.
73,
Nate/N4YDU
--- On Thu, 2/7/13, Amateur Radio Station W4MPS <w4mps at nc.rr.com> wrote:

From: Amateur Radio Station W4MPS <w4mps at nc.rr.com>
Subject: [PVRCNC] 13 Colonies Special Event
To: pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 10:52 AM

GM

I have been asked by Ken KU2US, organizer of the 13 Colonies Special Event, if I would agree to coordinate operations from North Carolina ( K2J ) for this year's event. If you're not familiar with the 13 Colonies event, please go to:

http://www.13colonies.info

This has grown to be quite popular, with over 62,000 QSO's made last year by the 13 special event stations.  That's up from 12,500 when it started in 2009.
I participated last year and had a ball. It's a ton of fun being on the receiving end of a pileup.

I'm looking for 2 or 3 additional NC stations to participate this year, and would be thrilled if they came from our PVRCNC group.  This is especially significant for two reasons:

First, the event is now issuing a commemorative Memorial Award in honor of NC native son Paul "Slim" Copeland, K4KCS of Greenville (SK), who was one of the original participants when the program started.  The plaque goes to the operator with most Q's in a high power and low power category (over/under 250W). Last year W2DAN of Rhode Island won the HP award with 3,608 Q's and W1FH of Connecticut with 2,439 Q's for LP.  Wouldn't it be great to have that award presented to an NC station?

http://www.13colonies.info/TopOp.htm

Second, with the loss of Slim, NC operations have not been well represented. Last year, the MD team won top honors with 7,230 Q's, 2nd Place to NH with 6,210, 3rd place to GA with 5,831 and 4th place to SC with 5,466.  NC was down at the bottom of the list.  NOT ACCEPTABLE !

The 13 Colonies Special Event runs from July 1 (Mon) through July 6, 2013 (Sat).  You can operate at any time(s) during that period using the K2J call.  We're going to coordinate station activities through an e-mail alert system, so that we don't have more than one K2J station on the air on the same bandand mode at the same time.

I need to finalize the stations who will be participating by the end of the month.  Each station will be duly registered by the organizer to use the K2J callsign for the event.  They are not permitting club participation this year, but I have been authorized to add the total number of ops in NC.

If you have an interest in participating as a K2J special event station this year, please get in touch with me as soon as you can, so I can finalize the team roster.  I'll be at the meeting tonight to answer any questions.

tnx es 73
Marc, W4MPS



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