I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday!
The 2003 ARRL January VHF Sweep Stakes is rapidly approaching. I hope
everyone is getting their plans together for the contest. As a service to
all VHF contesters I gather the plans of stations planning to be active and
post them on the Rover Resource Page.
http://www.qsl.net/n9rla
This started out to help folks plan for Rover operations in their area, but
has become popular for all categories. If you plan to be on please send me
the call you plan to use [this sounds obvious, but with multis, rovers,
clubs and such it's not easy to tell!], the grid or grids you plan to
activate, and any other station info you care to share. An email address
you can be reached at to set up scheduled contacts can also be helpful. I
won't include your email address unless you put it in the body of the
message [some folks are touchy about privacy issues, and such]. Send me
your plans as soon as possible! Also, if you know of any stations that will
be on but don't use email, send me their plans so we can spot them as well.
My own plans for the January 'test are in serious jeopardy. In September,
my homebrew ladder racks that support my antenna system suffered serious
damage, and two of my three antennas had problems! Switching to backup
antennas is no problem, but I still haven't had time to replace the racks.
And if that wasn't bad enough, now the transmission has gone out of my
truck! So, it's doubtful that I will be able to overcome all of these
obstacles before the contest. If not, I'll likely be on 6 & 2 as a single
op from my very limited home station, hi hi.
73
Dan
Dan Evans N9RLA
Scottsburg, IN 47170
{EM78}
N9RLA /R no budget Rover
Check out the Rover Resource Page at:
http://www.qsl.net/n9rla
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