Mike, awesome activity, I know you've done exceptional work on mountains. We
rovers in the Pacific NW have challenging terrain to work around. Thankfully
we're often rewarded from the higher hilltops although we'll never have the
ham density of the East Coasters to run up the score. I admire all you've
done.
You are so, so spot-on to note it's all in the planning and preparation.
Once the wheels start turning, all I want to do is execute the plan; I don't
want to stop to think and decide things, because I don't have any better
routing information on the road than at my desk with all the resources at my
fingertips.
Driving up and down freeways in metro centers? Boring! For sure, it's the
best way to rack up contest points and I've done it, and I know it's a lot
of work to do it well. But for me, to have real fun is to explore new grids
and mountains, and hand out grids to the truly crazy guys that chase them.
So I drive hundreds of miles away from metro centers and carry a kilowatt
and a big 6m5 and tackle the highest places I can find. Ah, now that's real
living. As my father often told me: "To each to his own," said the farmer as
he kissed his cow, lol.
Barry Hansen K7BWH
<mailto:barry@k7bwh.com> barry@k7bwh.com
mobile 425-503-5548
Seattle, WA CN87us
From: Mike Lewis <k7mdl@hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2019 5:36 AM
To: k6yk@juno.com; barry@k7bwh.com
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Subject: Re: [PNWVHFS] activating grids DN27, DN26, DN07
We Rovers actually do crawl up gnarly 4x4 roads and do up to 5 or 6 grids a
day. All in the route planning and for me, no set required. I turn the truck
to point the 5 or so beams and use omnis and verticals as well.
Station operation is streamlined to a single button push for band change, I
use 2 radios to ensure I can liason while running the bands or monitor
activity on the major bands.
My bands above 1296 are tripod setups still, but when you are hitting 10
grids in a weekend, most are remote and microwave contacts are unlikely so
no time spent on those spots.
I will be set up at the first stop by start of contest then attempt to keep
to schedule.
Mike
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Subject: Re: [PNWVHFS] activating grids DN27, DN26, DN07
Hi Barry,
The rovers around here go up & down I-5 , I-80 and Calif. 99 through the
central valley and
bay area. And they do make QSOs when driving along ... That's one way they
get so many grids
into a weekend !
73
John K6YK
CM97
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:54:10 -0700 <barry@k7bwh.com <mailto:barry@k7bwh.com>
> writes:
I'm driving into northern Idaho to light up grids for FFMA and anyone else
on 6 meters:
* DN27bn - Sunday 7/21
* DN26gg - Monday 7/22
* DN07pc - Tuesday 7/23
I'll have high power, a big antenna and good mountaintops; 6m only.
This trip is only coincidentally on the 2019 CQ WW VHF contest. So if you
want DN27 in the contest, come find me on Sunday around 50.313 FT8 or if the
band opens up then 50.125+ ssb/cw.
One day = one grid. My goal is to work as many people as possible so I'll
spend as much time as I can at each spot. This means at 10 am - 4 pm Pacific
at a minimum. This gives me time to move the next grid for the next day and
find a good spot. (Hey, how the heck do those rovers activate a big handful
of grids every day?? I bet they don't 4wd crawl up mountains to lookout
towers!)
Track me on APRS at www.aprs.fi/k7bwh
<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aprs.f
i%2Fk7bwh&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd7fbba14cda14bda8b3408d70cc8a6e8%7C84df9e7fe9f64
0afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636991928237254198&sdata=ZIG0up0hcuQ8zYKKe7Vl8
2CU9PPbNn6eVtqQXKPDPIo%3D&reserved=0>
DN26-27 are remote Idaho mountains in or near a big Indian reservation. Lolo
Pass and Hwy 12 is scenic and marvelously uncluttered by cellphone towers;
please spot me if you hear me.
If I have internet, I'll announce when I'm on the air to the email
reflectors and vhf-chat Slack channel https://vhf-chat.slack.com/
<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvhf-chat.
slack.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd7fbba14cda14bda8b3408d70cc8a6e8%7C84df9e7fe9
f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636991928237264202&sdata=AJQeNNKCov1DS9aHe4
qys6JmsQveI%2BJWWr0l9gw0sy8%3D&reserved=0> . Text messages to my cellphone
is preferred. I give preference to people who tell me their six-digit grid
square. Don't make me guess who/where you are! You won't like me when you
make me guess your callsign or location, lol.
Barry Hansen K7BWH
<mailto:barry@k7bwh.com> barry@k7bwh.com
mobile 425-503-5548
Seattle, WA CN87us
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