[WIARC] VHF activity

Mon Apr 6 00:40:54 EDT 2020

I’ll put something together and post here and we’ll see who salutes….

From: Chris Schulz <nr9q at hotmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 11:36 PM
To: wiarc at mailman.qth.net; 'Danny Pease' <dpease at adams.net>; n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com
Subject: RE: [WIARC] VHF activity

I understand on the honor system. Just keep it simple and not make work out of it. I would in for a dry run of this. What do you have in mind? Let’s  see if anyone else speaks up as being interested in the dry run.  

Chris

On Apr 5, 2020, 23:30 -0500, n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com <mailto:n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com> , wrote:

It would be honor system on the scoring. I don’t need any more logs to check!  Scoring could be changed from month to month.  You could operate as many different 4-hour periods as you want and take the best one…or the one with the most interesting QSO…..

I’ll put something together and post it in the next newsletter, and we can kick off the first week of May?  Or we can go ahead and do a “dry run” and see if it’s fun….

It actually gave me an excuse to operate voice modes.

73, Jim N9JF

From: Chris Schulz <nr9q at hotmail.com <mailto:nr9q at hotmail.com> >
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 11:25 PM
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Subject: RE: [WIARC] VHF activity

This sounds like a lot of fun to me. I would like to shoot for evenings for during the week and anytime for weekends. We could try a 4 hour window on a weekend and something during the week the next time. Just see what works and the level of participation amongst individuals on this reflector. This could maybe turn into something.

Maybe explain more on how this use to work back when it was done the first time. Did the rules change month to month a little? One band at a time or several bands? Prefixes or grids maybe. Now this may have limits as checking them could really become a job. So many things could be done with this. Inject other ideas if others have them. Just creating the parameter’s for the next month could be fun. Then again, I don’t know how this was done before. Four hours is a great window. 73

Chris, NR9Q

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From: n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com <mailto:n9jfcountyhunter at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2020 10:38 PM
To: 'Chris Schulz' <mailto:nr9q at hotmail.com> ; wiarc at mailman.qth.net <mailto:wiarc at mailman.qth.net> ; 'Danny Pease' <mailto:dpease at adams.net> 
Subject: RE: [WIARC] VHF activity

I guess one possibility is to bring back the "WIMSPRINT".

For those of you who have forgotten, the WIMSPRINT was the "Western Illinois
Monthly Sprint".  Club members were encouraged to pick a 4-hour period
during the first week of the month and GET ON THE AIR.  Keep track of the
number of contacts, one point per contact regardless of mode, and multiply
the points by the states, provinces and countries logged.  Send your score
to n9jf at arrl.net <mailto:n9jf at arrl.net>  by the 20th of the month for publication of bragging rights
for the month. Also send details of your most interesting QSO.

What say???

73, Jim N9JF

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Subject: Re: [WIARC] VHF activity

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Count me in for this. This would give me of a push to get more ready for
these bands. Love the VHF/UHF bands. Just need to get on there more. Been on
6m quite a bit lately.

Chris, NR9Q
On Apr 5, 2020, 20:33 -0500, Danny Pease <dpease at adams.net <mailto:dpease at adams.net> >, wrote:
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> For the VHF crowd, this Monday, April 6 is the Spring 2 meter Sprint.
> While it typically is an SSB or CW event, you can also do FT8 (on
> 144.174), FM or even AM. The event runs from 7:00 PM local time
> tomorrow night through 11:00 PM local time. There will be similar
> events for 222, 432 and 900 and above coming up.
>
> I am hearing of more clubs and local groups having 2 meter simplex
> contests, that could be something we could start here as well. We can
> create our own event, specify time, power limits and classes and maybe
> even find something to give to the winners.
>
> Thoughts, questions, suggestions?
>
> Danny NG9R
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