Hello VHFers
Circle the dates of May 24 and 25 for the first ever 222 MHz only EME
weekend. I was in hopes of presenting this idea to the Northeast Weak
Signal Group members at the latest meeting, but, as circumstances
unfolded, I decided to run the weekend activity period by myself. I
picked the weekend in hopes that it would not conflict with other ham
adventures so that 222 Hz would have our undivided attention. As it
turns out the CQ WW WPX CW Contest is the same weekend. That was the
best I could do. Declination is rather positive in the +12 to 18 degree
range. Degradation is very low and it is on a weekend! Hopefully with
benign weather!
Scoring will be the same as for the ARRL EME Contest. Each contact is
worth 100 points and grid multipliers are added up You need to exchange
your grid for the contact to count. I am not sure about categories, but
CW and digital modes are encouraged. The point of this exercise is two
fold: 1 Accommodate large (and small) dish stations to be active on 222
without worrying about changing feeds in a limited amount of time. and
2. To insure that as many great 222 EME signals are represented so that
small stations have a chance to work the larger stations.
Certificates will be mailed to all winners in the following categories:
Digital
CW
In addition, a certificate will be sent to any and all single yagi
stations that can complete at least one QSO via the Moon Route.
As for the categories, you can mix the modes so that it would be
possible for the same station to win for both categories. In that case
you et an overall winner and one certificate. That gives me the winter
to design a certificate and get them printed. This is all preliminary,
so please forward any comments negative or positive and maybe a few
tweaks can be made. I juggled the times so that winter weather is gone,
but the family vacation period (starting in mid June) is not impacted.
There are only so many weekends in the Summer!! Here in northern New
England, we joke that Summer starts on July 4th and ends the following week.
I just hope that my 222 MHz array survives the winter.
73
Dave K1WHS
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