[SixClub] [FFMA] Talk about timing!

[Al]

Good Morning John and the FFMA group.
When I read John's email about FM25, I immediately went to my worksheet for the below mentioned trip! I'll be there.
Even though I am not very active on 6 meters from home, my XYL and I for the past two years have been planning an RV trip from EM70 (home) up the east coast all the way to Nova Scotia. Our plans are to try to stop in almost every square we pass through for at least one night. The "rare" ones more. 

Even though our departure is not scheduled until mid August, and I don't think Es is real good, I will do my best on SSB. HSMS is my 'forte', hi. N5SIX is going to loan me his 6M brick, and I will run either a 3 element beam or if possible a 5 element beam. I have a push-up mast that is (can be) mounted on the back of the RV with a rotor. 

I will have internet all the way, and will be on PingJockey.

Here are the proposed grids in order. (Note that the return trip has not been planned, but will come south through the smokies.) 
EM90, 91
4 grids: EM92, 93 and FM02, 03 intersection hopefully. Never been there, so don't know the lay of the land.
FM13, 14, 25, 26, 27,28
FN21, 43, 54
Cross the border into Canada
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FN65, 75, 85, 84
FN74.
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I think FM13 is the rarest, and since there is no RV park there, we will stay in a motel for about 3 days and operate from the RV in the parking lot. 

Total route distance up is 2,700 miles. 

I hope that this trip comes to fruition! Like I said, we have been planning to do this for a couple of years. 

You know, when people from the "north" come south, they are called "snow-birds". Now, when we, who live on the gulf coast, go north, we are called "oil-birds"!

Best 73,
Al
WA4EWV



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Geiger 
  To: ffma at yahoogroups.com ; sixclub at mailman.qth.net ; 6meter at yahoogroups.com ; 50mhz at mailman.qth.net 
  Cc: WD5USA ; stanw5zf at hotmail.com 
  Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 11:31 AM
  Subject: [FFMA] Talk about timing!


    
  FM25 has long been a blank spot in my 6 meter grid map. It looks like it contains part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina and some (probably marshy) mainland. I can't recall even hearing a station on from FM25 before.

  This morning I was on pingjockey.net getting some things set up to run WSJT (If necessary) for the K5N expedition to DL88. WB3BEL was logged in there and listed his grid as FM25 but it didn't click at that time. He had a successful 6m QSO with EM13 which is just to my southeast. I then go to the DX cluster and see WB3BEL being spotted on 50.153 and as being in FM25. Suddenly that clicks! He was just on pingjockey.net. I go there and send a message to him but he has logged out. Have the radio on 50.153 but not hearing a thing. 

  Figure it is time for the morning shower. It is already 11 am but hey, I am on summer break. Can't do that, the XYL is in the bathroom but I do hear my Daughter's Guinea Pig, Lollipop, squeaking loudly because I haven't given him his daily carrot yet, so I go to the kitched to get them. Feed Lollipop one carrot and realize it is pretty big, so I figure I will save the other piece for later since we are almost out of carrots. I walk through the shack on the way to the kitched to put the other carrot back in the refrigerator and and suddenly on a Es burst I hear WB3BEL weakly calling CQ! Work him quickly, he gives me a 52, and he is about the same here. By the end of the QSO he is back in the noise and gone, but I have FM25 in the log!

  Out pets give us many wonderful things in life, mine just gave me a rare grid square! 

  73s John AA5JG



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