[TMRA] 3 upcoming TMRA Operating Events - Aug 21, Aug 26 and Sept 9

[Robert Hall]

As mentioned the last couple weeks on the Newcomers and Elmers Net, and as
posted on the club facebook site and other locations recently, TMRA will be
hosting operations for 3 events in August and September coming up.  Please
mark your calendar and join us if you can!

*Summary*

   1. *HamSCI Total Eclipse Party* - Monday, Aug 21st (Operating 10am-6pm
   Eastern) - Wolcott House, Maumee (1031 River Rd. Maumee, OH  43537)
   2. *Ohio QSO Party* - 12 hour Op. available - Saturday, Aug 26th
   (Operating Noon-TBD, contest until midnight) - Wolcott House, Maumee  (1031
   River Rd. Maumee, OH  43537)
   3. *Ohio State Parks on the Air *- Saturday, Sep 9th (Operating
   10am-6pm) - Maumee Bay State Park (1400 State Park Rd. Oregon, OH  43616)

More information follows on each:

*HamSCI Total Eclipse Party details:*
TMRA is planning an operation event to support the Solar Eclipse QSO Party
operation, sponsored by the ARRL and HAMSCI (Ham Radio Science Citizen
Investigation), set to begin at 1400z on Aug 21st.  TMRA has secured the
Wolcott House for this event.

On Monday, August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will cause the shadow of
the moon to traverse the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina in just over 90
minutes causing dramatic changes in both the ionosphere and HF propagation.
The Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP) is a HamSCI-ARRL sponsored operating
event to generate data to study ionospheric changes during the eclipse.

CW, PSK, RTTY, Phone, & WSPR on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, and 6 meter bands.
Signal Report and Grid Square are the exchange.

Some members/non-members may bring telescopes out for this event (w/ sun
filters), and you are welcome to bring yours as well.

Steve W8TER is the organizer for the event. Please contact Steve W8TER at
W8TER at arrl.net with any questions of if you can contibute for this research
operation event.

Full Rules: http://hamsci.org/seqp
Ham Radio-Eclipse Info: http://hamsci.org/eclipse
http://www.hamsci.org/articles/2017-total-solar-eclipse

More information re: our local Maumee operation is pending.  However,
please add this to your calendar if your schedule will allow!



*Ohio QSO Party:*
TMRA Plans to setup a couple stations for the Ohio QSO Party (Sponsored by
the Mad River Radio Club) from the Wolcott House in Maumee on River Road
(secured for this event). Other details are pending as we firm up the plans
for this operation.

CW and SSB on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. Stations may be worked once
per mode on each band. For our Ohio operation, multipliers are the 49
American States (excluding Ohio, also District of Columbia is combinded
with Maryland), 11 Canadian Provinces (NL, PEI, NS, NB,VE2-7, YT/NWT/NU),
88 Ohio Counties and 1 DX. Total of 149 multipliers for Ohio Stations.
Members’ scores from Ohio stations will be credited towards their Ohio
club, so any contacts at home can be applied to TMRA as well.

See https://www.ohqp.org/
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and
Contact Steve Bellner (W8TER) at W8TER at ARRL.NET for further
planning/information for this event as the date draws closer. We will post
more information about this event as more information becomes available.

Please reserve the date!



*Ohio State Parks on the Air:*
TMRA is sponsoring, and has secured the Maumee Bay State Park for operation
as W8H during the 10th Annual Ohio State Parks On The Air (OSPOTA) Contest
Operation on September 9th. Operations setup will begin at 8am and the
contest starts at 10am. The contest will run on SSB on 80, 40, 20, 15 and
10m only.

This will be a unique event for TMRA in that it will be our first attempt
at setting up and using all free standing antennas (no trees used), to help
test our strengths in operating under no tree support conditions. Also,
setup and operations efforts are expected to be organized by some of our
newest operators, with support from our long time elmers (as needed). This
should provide some great learning opportunities for everyone involved.

This event organizer for TMRA is Toby Hiteshew (KE8CZO) who is available
for sign-up and info at KE8CZO at gmail.com. Toby will be providing more
details over the coming month and will be presenting more specifics on the
plans during the August 2017 TMRA meeting. Stay tuned for further info, but
please save the date. Toby is currently seeking sign-ups for setup crews
and operators for this short event.

More event info available at http://www.ospota.org/ospota/index.php
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73!  Rob - KV8P