Hi Erich,
Yep, I plan on being active at least one weekend of the 10+ GHz contest
and hopefully both weekends.
I've been choosing sites in the Chicago area. Some people will be on both
shores of Lake Michigan. I'm planning on a few choice hilltop locations.
I expect a few curious passers-by as we had in my Bald Knob excursion in
the June contest. Hopefully none of them think I'm a terrorist! I'm all
set with the "emergency communications drill" routine as we discussed on
the microwave reflector recently. :)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, KA6AMD wrote:
> Hello Zack,
>
> There is already an ARRL contest that has all of this. Its the 10GHz
> contest. You exchange 6 digit grid coordinates, scoring is by distance, you
> have to be at least 1 km from other station, you get points for each unique
> call you work, and you have to move the station 10 miles before you can
> contact the same stations again.
>
> Seems like this would solve the problem of grid circling completely, but
> allow the rovers significant freedom. The biggest downside is that it could
> skew the contest to 6M with high distance scores if prop was good. You
> would probably have to keep the increasing point mults with frequency.
>
> Erich
> KA6AMD
>
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