Hello Roger and the 222 group
I tried to answer your e mail about having 222 EME activity periods
spread over a few weekends, but clicked on something I should not have
clicked, and Bill Gates promptly sent your email into Limbo. I am
thinking that Memorial Day is not the time for a 222 activity period, so
I dropped back to April. April 5 and 6 are not as good as the May dates,
but it is not a national holiday. Here is a snap shot of the April weekend:
April 5 2025 00:00 UT (Friday evening) The Moon is well up in the
sky and Guys like KL6M have 36 degrees of elevation.
06:45 UT Moonset in Maine.
19:00 UT Moonrise in Alaska
April 6, 2025 16:00 UT Moonrise in Maine
07:30 UT Moonset in Maine
17:00 UT Moonrise (Sunday) in Maine.
21:00 UT Moonrise in Alaska
24:00 UT Moon is not quite due South
of me.
April 7, 2025
08:00 UT Moonset in Maine Moon is
well up in Alaska
The weekend looks OK but the extra dB of degradation tends to hurt.
I am thinking that we should extend the activity period into late Sunday
evening/Monday early AM. This gives moonrise only stations more of a
chance to work stations in HI, AK etc. If we stop at 24:00 UT on Sunday
the guys in AK and HI have no chance to work any moon rise stations in
the USA on Sunday. We could have the period end in the Sunday evening
on the West Coast.
April is not as good as May, and the degradation is about 1 dB worse for
the weekend. What does everyone think? Lets try to get a plan done in
concrete as soon as we can. Would two weekends make sense? Is early
April too close to winter or some? I am leaning towards just one
weekend to keep things simple. My XYL will kill me if I am on the radio
on Memorial Day weekend. She has all the grandkids up to the camp then.
If I miss it, I am a ded duck.
Comments?
April 5 Start 00:00 UT until April 7 at 08:00 UT (This is late Sunday
evening.)
Band: 222 MHz only
Categories: CW Digital or combination of CW & Digi
Exchange: Grid Square
100 points per QSO Grid squares count as multipliers Just like the EME
Contest. For example, I work five stations in four separate grids. My
score is 5 X 100 points X 4 grids for a total of 2000 points.
It does not matter if you are in two different spots, except that you
can work the same stations from each spot and grids will count as new
grids. Some people may want to be portable for part of the time.
Did I miss anything?
Dave K1WHS
On 11/24/2024 2:34 PM, Roger - W7TZ wrote:
Also Memorial Day weekend. No complaint from me, but I'm old and don't
go nowhere anyway.
I'll still be happy to help with certificates when you get to that point.
73, Roger
W7TZ
CN83ia
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