Hi VHFers,
I plan to get on this evening for the fantastic and much celebrated 222
VHF Activity Evening. Yeah, I know that the January Contest just ended
and you are all VHF Contested out, but there will be some surprises in
store for one lucky ham who will be picked at random by the secretive
and all knowing and powerful 222 MHz Activity Commission.
It does look like a memorable Tuesday evening, with temps dropping below
zero this evening and a fair amount of snow on the ground here in Mumbo
Jumbo Land. That makes it difficult for me to get up to the VHF shack.
The road is about 1/2 mile long and uphill for much of it. I am going
to try to make it this evening anyway. I can always use another
adventure. The truck has new aggressive tires and the snow is not
terribly deep. The hard part is getting the generator to work when it is
around zero degrees. Diesels just do not like cold weather. The good
news is that the engine is a Cummins, so it is no slouch in performance.
So the big news is that one lucky 222 MHz VHF participant will be chosen
by the Committee to go on an all expenses paid excursion starting early
next week to world famous Beechey Island. This is the location for the
start of your fabulous vacation adventure tracing the route of the 129
starving and freezing sailors of the Franklin Arctic Expedition as they
left their wrecked ships and tried to reach civilization. None of them
survived. To add realism to your trip, you will visit the area in the
dead of the arctic winter with a sled dog team starting in Temiskiming
QUE. Enjoy the traverse of the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay up to Devon
Island. Hang a left and in a few hundred miles of pack ice an pressure
ridges, you will come to magnificent Beechey Island where you will see
the graves of the first three dead crew members. We will definitely
allow plenty of time for shell and artifact collecting. Then we will
travel South towards King William Island with stops along the way as we
document the final resting places of some of the other unfortunate crew
members. You will get to know your dogs on the dog team as you an
participate in feeding blubber to them as you go along. The 222 MHz
Activity Committee has pulled out all the stops for this trip. From
King William island it is smooth mushing South to civilization in
Nipawin Saskatchewan, 1104 miles South. You should arrive there God
willing in late February or early March. You are responsible for
transportation from Nipawin, SK.
If you have not tried 222 on a Tuesday night, we all appear after dinner
around 00:00 UT and plus or minus 222.100 MHz CW SSB FT8 Q65, Light,
Semaphore, or what ever floats your boat. We use ON4KST Chat (144/432
Region 2) or HB9Q 222 MHz chat for EME. Get on and make some noise. You
could end up on Beechey Island
73
Dave K1WHS
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