Folks:
I would love to participate from my home QTH in SD. It may interest some
folks that I am only 7 miles from the WY border, and about 1 hour from
the MT border. ND border is about 2 hours away. I have a small camper
set up for Ham Radio and especially the digital modes, like RTTY. I can
run 50W or so with a screw driver antenna. I can also erect a low dipole
with fiberglass poles, in the case f no trees being available. Not a
world class portable contest station by any means. But with the sun
spots returning, probably would be OK to give folks needed states,
especially on 15M through 10M when they open.
My biggest problem is that the contest season begins exactly when we
begin to get our bad WX. This has prevented me from operating from those
states in the last few years in winter contests since I moved here.
However I now have obtained an old Jeep with which I may be able to use
to operate from those rare areas in the future. It is old and ugly, but
it can just about climb trees, and the heater works FB!
If some one would organize the event, I would love to try and operate from
those areas in order to give LOTW QSL's to those who may need them. I
would really be interested in LOTW QSL's only. Maybe a summer event, or a
summer continuation of the event is also in order?
Brian K7RE
Western SD
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