Hey all,
Many of you are aware of the common "activity nights" listed in the ARRL
Operating Manual:
50MHz Sunday 6PM
144MHz Monday 7PM
222MHz Tuesday 8PM
432MHz Weds 9PM
1296MHz Thurs 10PM
902MHz Fri 9PM
Outside of 222 Tuesdays, I don't know that this drives much actual
"activity"... so maybe this post is partly a reminder about those days. For
example, I don't have an excuse to not be on 432, Weds night.
On the other hand, weeknights at 6-10PM are not ideal times to drive out to a
ridge and operate for an hour or two, or to activate a SOTA site or local
park... so I'm curious if there might be interest in designating some kind of
informal(?) 1-hour, terrestrial-only, "micro-sprints" every month, rotating
through the bands, perhaps. Has something like this been tried in the past?
It seems competition brings out more people than "activity nights" but I
wouldn't want to burn people out.
It just seems there's a lot of dead space in the VHF/UHF calendar, now...
especially in the winter. Not much motivation to test and improve particular
bands.
Thoughts?
Patrick
KB8DGC
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