It will be fun to work you guys even if we don't need the grids!
Chuck W5PR
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 4:22 PM af5cc2 <af5cc2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Will you be using SSB and/or CW if we get some good Es?73 John W5TD (ex.
> AF5CC)Sent from my U.S. Cellular® Smartphone
> -------- Original message --------From: Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com>
> Date: 6/26/19 3:25 PM (GMT-06:00) To: VHF Contesting <
> vhfcontesting@contesting.com> Subject: [VHFcontesting] First Announcement
> for the July K5N Grid
> Expedition... Hello to all interested in chasing grids on 6M. The K5N
> group is planning a grid DXpedition to three of the most wanted grids in
> the Big Bend region of Texas. We are planning to activate DL79, DL89, AND
> DL88. Our plans are NOT completely final, but here is the best estimate
> that I can give at this point.Arliss-W7XU, Bill-N5YA, and myself-K5QE will
> depart east TX on July the 2nd and drive to Study Butte, TX. We believe
> that we will arrive late on the afternoon/evening of July 3rd. However, it
> is quite possible that we will not get there until mid-day of the 4th of
> July. We will probably setup in the evening of the 4th, when it is not so
> hot. So, it is possible that we will be on the air the evening of the 4th.
> If not, we will finish setup on the 5th and then get on the air then. The
> RV park supposedly has WiFi, but I have been told that it is "spotty".
> That probably means that it does not work....HI.Dan-N5TM is planning to
> drive over on the 5th, but will not arrive until the evening. Kyle-KA5D
> and Ivan-KG5UNR will arrive on the evening of July 6th(Saturday).After I am
> firmly established in DL89, Arliss and Bill are going to drive down to DL88
> and put that on the air. There will be NO cell or Internet in DL88, so you
> will just have to watch out for them. I should be able to post when they
> leave, but I will not be able to tell when they actually arrive OR when
> they are able to get on the air.I believe that Arliss and Bill will return
> to Study Butte on the 8th of July to help us pack and move to DL79. Again,
> this is NOT the final word on all this, it is just as close as I can
> estimate.Assuming all of the above, we will move to Presido, TX on the
> evening of the 8th. We will setup on the morning of the 9th. In Presidio,
> we will have Internet, either via the RV park or via an AT&T hot spot. On
> the morning of the 13th, we will tear down and begin the long drive home.We
> have not decided on which calls we will use. Remember, we will have two
> stations on the air at the same time. While I have secured our traditional
> K5N call from July 6th to July 13th, we cannot use that call for both
> places at the same time, because there would be mass confusion about which
> grid folks were working. I have applied for the K5N call from July 3rd to
> July 5th, so we could use that call for the entire time we were down
> there. ARRL is being a bit slow on that, however. We have not decided on
> the frequencies we will use. Some have suggested that we just get into the
> pile and run FT8 on 50.313MHz. Others say that we should adopt a frequency
> close to that but not right on .313. Of course, we are hoping for a big Es
> opening while we are down there...most especially for Arliss and Bill while
> they are in DL88. I cannot speak for the DL88 crew, but when FT8 and Es
> are dead, we will entertain the troops with meteor scatter using MSK144,
> most probably on 50.260MHz.This is the best that I can come up with right
> now. Things can and probably will change. Hopefully, the changes will be
> small.73 es GL....the K5N
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