From rick1ds at hotmail.com  Fri Aug 10 14:11:00 2018
From: rick1ds at hotmail.com (Rick R)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:11:00 +0000
Subject: [Rover] Mid-Atl States VHF Conf--BE AN EARLYBIRD
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Mid-Atlantic States VHF Conference September 28-30

ARRL Sanctioned Hosted by the PACKRATS Mt Airy VHF Radio Club

Register on-line NOW at www.packratvhf.com<http://www.packratvhf.com/>

Conference Early Bird** Registration only $40 Saturday Evening Early Bird Banquet $40

** Early Bird price good through Sept 20.

<<<<<Additional Proceedings papers sought>>>>>send to:  rick1ds at hotmail.com Holiday Inn-Bensalem-Philadelphia 3327 Street Rd,

Bensalem, PA (215) 639-9100 Early Bird rooms $105+tax

Registration includes proceedings disc, pizza lunch and snacks, Rohde & Schwarz Technical Testing Room

Friday Afternoon FREE seminar ?N1MM Logger-Intro for Beginners?

Friday evening hospitality and table-top selling

Saturday conference presentations & auctions

Saturday evening Banquet buffet dinner (door prizes for paid conference & banquet attendees)

Sunday morning free outdoor mini-flea market

Tentative Speakers and topics: Friday Afternoon Seminar 2:00-5:00 PM

Roger Rehr W3SZ & Phil Theis K3TUF N1MM Logger: An Introduction for First Time Users

Saturday 8AM-5PM

Rick Rosen K1DS Single Yagi EME

Paul Sokoloff WA3GFZ A Compact Multiband Microwave Transverter

Joe Taylor K1JT FT8 and the Summer Es

Dan Marlow K2QM Restoration of the 60? Tiros Dish and EME Activity

Michael Davis KB1JEY My Favorite Test Gear Comes from China

Alan Wolke W2AEW Mr. Philip Smith and his Chart are Your Friend

Paul Wade W1GHZ Cheap & Simple Transverters - New and Updates

Phil Theis K3TUF Tower Mounted Microwave Gear

Joe Horanzy AA3JH LASER Communicator Update

Bob Fischer W2SJ Did Murphy Help You Prepare for the VHF Contest?

Saturday eve banquet speaker Paul Shuch N6TX CQ Space: Building the Interstellar Beacon

details and updates www.packratvhf.com<http://www.packratvhf.com/>   questions?   rick1ds at hotmail.com


From bobw2sj at gmail.com  Thu Aug 16 14:24:45 2018
From: bobw2sj at gmail.com (Bob Fischer)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:24:45 -0400
Subject: [Rover] W2EA High Knob,
	FN21KH - 2018 ARRL September Contest Operation!
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Hello VHF+ Enthusiasts!

What are you doing the weekend of September 8th & 9th?

The South Jersey Mountain Toppers ARC consisting of several Pack Rats and
SJRA members will once again trek to High Knob, grid FN21KH, a remote
location in the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains. We will be operating as W2EA
for the September Contest  at 2047 feet ASL on all bands 50 MHz thru 10 GHz
with good antennas and power.

We know that some of you may only be on for a short time, so we will be
monitoring the ON4KST chat page as well as Ping Jockey Client. We are
generally on 50.133 and 144.185 + or - QRM. Give us a call there and we
will run you up the bands! In addition, any other acceptable assistance
methods can be used to alert us of your availability during the contest.
Please see our listing in the W3SZ / K1RZ Database at the link below:

http://w3sz.x10.mx/k1rz/K1RZDataGridTablesAll.php


By the way, if you operate in the North, Mid or South Eastern Atlantic
geographic areas and have not entered your info in the Database, please do
so for others to see at the link below:

http://w3sz.x10.mx/k1rz/getUpdateForm.htm

Those of you who have been to a remote location in June or September know
it takes quite an effort to plan, set up, operate, and disassemble a
mountain top station. We look forward to working many of you and possibly
giving you a new grid (FN21) on all 10 bands!

*NOTE:* To Pack Rats and all ARRL Affiliated Clubs: Don't forget, all your
club member's logs submitted add to the combined ARRL Club Competition
score for your club!!


Tnx, GL, es 73,

Bob, W2SJ & Bill, K3EGE

For the W2EA team