Hi Fellow ORCers!
The CW World Wide VHF contest is this weekend, and Bruce, W9FZ, and I (Janice, KA9VVQ) will be participating in the rover category. “Rover” will be Bruce’s Toyota 4Runner with the morass of antennas on it like it was at Field Day. We’d love to make some QSOs with any ORCers who will be (or are considering) participating. Note that you can score a new QSO with us each time we move into a new grid! So point your antennas at us, and if the propagation gods are willing, let’s have some QSOs!
Here are the details:
CQ World Wide VHF contestBegins: 1800 UTC (1 pm Central Daylight time) Saturday, July 20, 2013
Ends: 2100 UTC (4 pm Central Daylight Time) Sunday, July 21, 2013
For this contest, 6m and 2m bands, SSB or CW, only! (Bruce and I will have most of the other VHF+ bands if you’re seeking grid squares for other awards as well…just let us know what you’d like to operate on!)
We’ll be using the callsign W9FZ/R
We will announce on the calling frequencies (6m: 50.125; 2m: 144.200) when we get to a new grid and then
we will move to 50.190/144.230. You will most likely find us CQing on 144.230. If you only have 6m, you will hear us pop up on 50.190 from time-to-time, and we would love to hear calls tailending there. If you have CW capability on 6m, that will come in REAL handy. Remember, we will go as slowly as you send--we want your Q!!!!
We’ll be chirping on APRS, so you can see where we are on our rove by checking out aprs.fi on the Internet. Head on over to:
http://aprs.fi/?call=w9fz-15 to find us!
Our schedule is:
Saturday:
EN43tq 1300L-1430L (1800-1930Z) Hillsboro, WI, (Vernon County)
EN53fx 1530L-1700L (2030-2200Z) Near Coloma, WI (Waushara County)
EN54fa 1700L-1830L (2200-2330Z) Near Coloma, WI (Waushara County)
EN44xm 1930L-2100L (0030-0200Z) Powers Bluff Co Park , southeast of Marshfield (Wood County)
Sunday:
EN45xa 0800L-0930L (1300-1430Z) East of Athens, WI (Marathon County)
EN55aa 1000L-1130L (1500-1630Z) East of Athens, WI (Marathon County)
EN56bc 1300L-1430L (1800-1930Z) Manitowish Waters Airport (Vilas County)
EN46sa 1500L-1600L (2000-2100Z) Butternut, WI (Ashland County)
Bruce and I look forward to working all of our friends in the region AND new stations too!
73!
Janice, KA9VVQ and Bruce, W9FZ