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From: "frank bechdoldt" <k3uhf@hotmail.com>
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:26 PM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] June 2032 intergalatic vhf sweepstakes
Here’s a clip from the future….
June Intergalactic VHF sweepstakes review QST 2032
An unnamed California group bought a surplus ICBM from the dilapidated US
Air force and launched it to the moon. On board was a missile platform that
drops 10 warheads, or in this case , eleven band mobile lunch box stations.
With the exception of melting the picture of Ferrah Faucet off the cover of
the pink Charlie’s Angels lunch box, all 10 lunch boxes arrived unharmed.
This new effort was on account of key VUAC members pushing through a rule
change the new rule allows the use of remote control stations to activate
rare grids. This was done in the name of driver safety, saving the
environment, eliminating wasted gas from rovers and portable stations with
generators, leveling the playing field in the fly/talk over states and rf
safety for all citizens on the highways.
However the ARRL overlooked the possibility of extraterrestrial grid
circling via remote stations mounted on remote control vehicles.
The lunchbox lunar rovers are interfaced to tie wrapped IC 02s and are
connected to solar powered segways. The lunchboxes are designed to receive
commands from earth stations are deployed in adjacent lunar grids grid.
However the Lunchbox coordinator’s plans for interstellar victory were
foiled. None of the earth bound stations in his club had equipment or
antennas powerful enough to work the moon at their home QTHs. So while
conditions for ripe for contacts on the lunar surface, all ten lunar lunch
box rovers (LLBRs) sat idol for the june contest.
However this is only a minor set back as the lunchbox coordinator vows to
build ten, 11 band eme stations and place them strategically throughout the
southwestern desert. Ironically none of these stations are intended to work
stations on earth, but will surely become a powerhouse in the portable
category as well as the other new and old rover categories: QRP rovers,
dummy load rovers, traditional rovers, Limited rovers, Really limited
rovers, honest rovers. Impoverished rovers, rovers with angry wives, school
bus rovers and unlimited rovers.
Meanwhile a vhf group in New England is vowing not to be outscored on the
lunar surface. They are immediately contracting with Virgin intergalactic
supply INC. to set up an exclusive colony on the moon. They plan on
colonizing the Peary Crater of the Moon. It is 73km across and contains
approximately 25 grid squares within the confines of it’s deep crater walls.
(grids are about 6 x 12 miles on the moon).
An unnamed source was quoted as saying. “by ensuring that we are the first
hams on the moon and making sure we are all located in the confines of the
mile deep crater, we will be able to contain our QSOs to our selves, spread
out across several grids in the crater for multipliers, while ensuring we
maintain the population density contest advantage on the lunar surface by
being the only hams there!
However while New England Hams gleam with joy in thoughts of Lunar VHF
dominations, they may meet stiff opposition from Mrs. Hendrickson, the
president Peary Crater Neighborhood association who maintains that external
antennas and foreign structures have always clashed with the natural beauty
of the Lunar surface since the days of Neil Armstrong. While not currently
inhabiting the Crater, or the Moon, Mrs Hendrickson was quick to form a home
owners association and draft a set of CC&Rs when she bought her deed for
lunar property off of EBay in 1998.
When it was brought to the attention of both the California group and the
New England group that they would be both on the moon they were asked if
they intended on working each other. Both said no, its not the spirit of
the contest.
The ARRL is vowing to get it right by the time the Martian surface is
gridded. They are reaching out to NASA on rover rules , citing their
success with some mars rovers in the distant past. They still decline to use
any judgment in the future, citing that they are saving their resources for
intergalactic BPL interference.
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