[SADXA] Fwd: [CADXA DX Talk] W1AW Centennial Party 2014

[Richard Solomon]

Ned (AA7A) has asked me to poll the membership to see if we have any
interest in
participating.

Let's discuss this at the January meeting.

73 es HNY, Dick, W1KSZ

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From: Ned Stearns <aa7a at cox.net>
Date: Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:49 PM
Subject: [CADXA DX Talk] W1AW Centennial Party 2014
To: dxtalk at cadxa.org


CADXA people,

I have been asked by Dave Patton, NN1N, to spearhead Arizona's
participation in the 2014 W1AW Centennial 100th year anniversary. It was
an offer that I could not refuse. This event is part of the 100th year
anniversary of the formation of the ARRL.

I have elected to coordinate activity during two weeks in 2014 when
stations in AZ have the opportunity to operate as W1AW/7 as part of this
Centennial Party. For more details on the event, go here:

http://www.arrl.org/news/get-ready-the-arrl-centennial-qso-party-kicks-off-january-1

During every week of the year there will be activity in one or two
states that will be signing W1AW/X and Arizona's two weeks (I selected
them since there were no other big contests or other big events) are the
weeks of 12 March and 27 August (Wednesday 12:01 AM local to the next
Tuesday at midnight). For the whole schedule of which states are active
in each week, check the table here:

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/On%20the%20Air/W1AW_2014_sked.pdf

My job will be to coordinate the schedule for stations to operate during
our two weeks across Arizona. I will coordinate CADXA activity and I am
getting help from volunteer points of contact in all other participating
clubs across the state. We could operate up to three stations (each
operating a separate mode) on every amateur band (10 or more) 24 hours a
day. To be reasonable, I expect there to be roughly 184 1-hour time
slots every day with reasonable propagation (including all three modes)
every day in our week in March and a little less in August. So, if I
managed to get 40 stations active in AZ, they would each need to be
active around 4 hours a day to fill the prime time slots. So, lots of
opportunities to operate using the W1AW/7 callsign.

I would like input from CADXA members who would like to participate.
There are at least two ways to do so. You can operate your station solo
or share your station for other operators. Please let me know if you
have any interest in this project as an operator or station donor or
both. I am in touch with at least a dozen clubs across the state and I
expect to fill all the prime time slots for each week. This should all
come together by the end of January when I will have the initial
assignment of time blocks to participating stations. Late comers will
get the non-prime time slots such as the 160 meter noon time RTTY slot.

One of the important outputs of this effort is that the logs for each
station must end up in ADIF format. That is a normal output of most
current logging programs. Paper logging might be OK and likely in VHF/FM
operations but someone (hopefully not me) must be responsible for
entering the log data into an ADIF-generating file application (such as
TQSL) at some point soon after the activity.

If you are interested, send me a email.

Join in the fun starting next Wednesday. North Carolina and West
Virginia are first up in the event. LoTW can be used to track your
progress in 'working them all". Or, if you like tick lists, your can use
the one here:

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/On%20the%20Air/Keep%20Track%20of%20Your%20W1AW%20QSOs%20in%202014.pdf

73 and thanks in advance.

Ned
AA7A



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