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<font face="Arial">Hello Mark and all the LCC ops......I have not
posted anything here because I have been up to my tail in
alligators trying to get ready for the VHF contest. As Mark has
said, it is this weekend--the contest starts at 1PM local time on
Sat and ends at 10PM local time on Sunday night. Last year, we
won the VHF contest for the entire country and we are making a
serious effort to do that again. If any of you have 6M and
higher, please get on the air and work us on whatever bands you
have. Usually, the right thing to do is to call in on
2M(144.200MHz) and then we will direct you to the other bands. We
really would appreciate whatever contacts we can get from the
"easterly direction"....HI.<br>
<br>
There is a new class in the contest this year....the FM only
class. We will be looking for 2M FM contacts at 9PM on Saturday
and Sunday on 146.58MHz simplex. If you don't have any other VHF
gear, please try to contact us on 146.58 simplex. We have a 9el
vertically polarized beam at 170ft fed with 1 5/8" Heliax for our
FM contacts. On FM, we will have to be turning the antenna and
calling in several different directions, so don't give up on us if
you don't hear us right at 9PM. We will be turning the antenna
and calling all around. Thanks for that. NOTE: Someone in LCC
could easily win the FM only class of the VHF contest by getting
on FM and making a serious effort. I don't know of anyone in LA
that actively runs these contests(although LCC should) so some
enterprising LCC member could win this category....maybe for the
entire Division. <br>
<br>
Mark is also right that we are always looking for good ops for the
contests. This time we are especially hurting as two of my
operators have cancelled out at the last minute. Ted-KN5O is
going to be here as Ted is one of our faithful operators. SO, if
any of the LCC group, other than Ted-KN5O, would like to help us
out this time, I would really appreciate it. We will be running
digital meteor scatter schedules on 6M and 2M as well as 2M EME.
We will have a corps of rovers running around over here handing
out contacts on up to 10 bands(some of them) and up to 10
different grids. So, there is a lot of stuff to work. For a look
at what we have available, go to my web site, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.k5qe.com">www.k5qe.com</a>, and
click on Station Video.....as you will see, we do have a serious
VHF contest station....the only one anywhere around here.<br>
<br>
We do have bunks in the contest station and also at Bill's contest
station, so you won't have to foot a motel bill. We feed pretty
well also.....<br>
<br>
Speaking of the rovers, we have the Red Rover that is an 8 band
rover with no driver / operator for that vehicle. It is all set
up and ready to go out, but we need one or two ops to run it. The
Red Rover uses two IC7000s for the IF rigs and has high power on
all the bands up to 3456MHz with medium sized antennas. IF anyone
would be available to drive that, it would be great. Please
contact me ASAP via email or phone me. <br>
<br>
GL to the LCC all the way around, but especially in the VHF
contest....HI.<br>
<br>
73 Marshall K5QE<br>
Phone is 409-787-3830 at the home shack.....if you want to
talk....<br>
<br>
P.S. Mark....thanks for the reminder and the shameless plug....<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/15/2013 10:34 PM, Mark, K5ER
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:5.2.0.9.2.20130115222421.02b39168@mail.comcast.net"
type="cite">Please mark your calendars - in addition to the NAQP,
one of the premier VHF contests is also taking place this weekend.
There are several rules tweaks, including an FM ONLY category, so
those with only a mobile or HT can get on and have fun. Some will
run a couple of bands and modes and at least one club member,
K5QE, who is always competitive at the national level will be
running most bands from 6 meters up. He hasn't posted anything
yet, but Marshall is usually looking for guest operators, and if
you can't travel to his well appointed station, please be sure to
get on and work him and any other stations you can find. Complete
rules can be found at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.arrl.org/january-vhf">http://www.arrl.org/january-vhf</a> <br>
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