[SADXA] Fwd: W1AW/7 AZ planning kickoff - 26 July

Sun Jul 27 01:28:43 EDT 2014

    Yes, Bob, it is NF7E.

    But easy mistake. Bob and I (and one other AZ station with a similar 
call) used to
get a chuckle out of this confusion during the 160m contests!

Jim, KF7E


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "k7bhm" <k7bhm at cox.net>
To: "Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector" <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [SADXA] Fwd: W1AW/7 AZ planning kickoff - 26 July


>        Ned.............You don't really mean KF7E........That's Jim 
> Henderson.
>        Possibly NF7E, Bob Wertz from NADXA in Flagstaff............
>        (The Quality Manager comes out out in me every once in a while).
>        But I'm sure everyone will know who you're talking about.........
>
>        Bob - BHM
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Gail N7BXX
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 5:55 PM
> To: Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector
> Subject: [SADXA] Fwd: W1AW/7 AZ planning kickoff - 26 July
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Ned Stearns" <aa7a at cox.net>
> To: "KC7V" <mike at kc7v.com>, "Bud Semon N7CW" <n7cw at CABLEONE.NET>, "ke7dx" 
> <ke7dx at marketemporium.com>, kf7ez at cox.net, "N7GDP-Walt" <n7gdp at cox.net>, 
> "Tom Kramer" <tkramer at azci.net>, "Tom Lang" <tlang1080 at gmail.com>, "Gail 
> Peterson" <n7bxx at q.com>, "Richard Solomon" <dickw1ksz at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 9:05:16 AM
> Subject: W1AW/7 AZ planning kickoff - 26 July
>
> Hello all...AA7A, again.
>
> It is time to get to work planning for our 2nd week up to bat on the
> incredibly interesting W1AW/X experience. I am fully recovered from the
> last round and ready for round 2. I hope you all are as well. I met with
> Gary, KE7DX, and Bob, KF7E, up at the Williams hamfest and they seem
> ready to go. I have also heard from Walt, N7GDP, and I am assuming SADXA
> and GVRC and also ready to go as well.
>
> There are going to be a few changes for this second round. Let me list 
> them:
>
> 1. AA7A will be doing all scheduling. Bud, N7CW, has other pressing
> matters and will likely provide moral/technical support but does not
> have the time at this moment to support this effort. I know everyone
> appreciated his "no problemo" approach. I will try to meet his high
> marks on availability and responsiveness.
>
> 2. Propagation is deteriorating in this solar cycle peak. Between
> drooping sunspot numbers and summertime propagation found in late
> August, there is likely less time slots to address in our planning. As a
> result, I am not initially planning ANY operation on 12 or 10 meters and
> I am not planning anything but CW on 160 (sure hope Milt is up to the
> task...W8AEF and AA7A's 160 antennas are down). If conditions surprise
> us and improve, we will adapt.
>
> 3. I am still exploring a real-time web planning tool. If I score on
> that, I will convert all our schedules over to that and let everyone
> know. The current plan is to post the Excel spreadsheet plan to the web
> and offer daily updates. The web location will likely change since it
> will need to be a site to which I have ready access. I am still working
> for a living, so the update rate or time will need to fit in my
> available time slots. I cannot do any web work while at work since the
> IT police block nearly everything on the web while accessing the
> Internet from my work computer. (Company management recently wanted all
> employees to "Like" their latest company Facebook page...IT blocks
> Facebook on work Internet access, of course. Go figure.)
>
> Here are the POC's for the AZ Groups:
>
> AOCC: KC7V
> CADXA: NQ7R (alternate), AA7A (primary)
> GVRC: K7VOA
> NADXA: KF7E
> PCOECM: KE7DX
> SADXA: N7BXX (primary), W1KSZ (alternate)
> TBARC, N7GDP
> Non-club: AA7A (from direct emails)
>
> So, once again, I am distributing the allocation time blocks for each AZ
> group. I got a few comments last time that one club or another got less
> access to one band or another. But, in the end, there was plenty of time
> blocks for all. This is the first cut and I simply want each group to
> have a shot at offering time slots that seem to match the capabilities
> of the members of each group. So, please reconnect with all previous
> operators and enlist their interest in participating again in our
> upcoming week starting 27 August (Zulu...that starts on Tuesday evening
> local on 26 August). When you have a list of ops with their initial
> blocks of time to operate in hand, please contact me with the
> information. I will build the planning spreadsheet with this initial
> data and we will go from there.
>
> Please have your initial plans for members of your group by 11 August.
> We will publish the initial plan and then I will ask for all updates to
> go directly to me. I will be on travel on/off until 11 August but expect
> to be home after that. Expect ticklers from me as we get close to the 11
> August date. I want to minimize the panic at the end if I can.
>
> 73 and thanks for helping out.
>
> 73,
> Ned
> AA7A
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