[Fourlanders] September Contest

[Bob Lear]

Gentlemen, We've just come back from the UHF contest (I'll put out a 
report soon) and realized that it's time to start serious planning for 
the September VHF contest.  It is only a MONTH away.

Let me know what you want to do.  My recommendation is once again to go 
limited multi and pretty much do what we did in June which we should all 
be pretty well ready for without too much more preparation.  Comments or 
suggestions are requested.  I have some really good ideas to implement 
before next years contests that should allow us to do full-multi every 
time we want to with much less work, but it will take some time to get 
it all implemented.

One major issue we had for June which we did solve was pulling trailers 
to the mountain.  We had more trailers (Cargo, tower and generator) than 
we had folks to pull them up.  We will have the same situation again for 
September.  We need a couple more volunteers to pull trailers to the 
mountain to keep me from having to double load them.  ANY VOLUNTEERS?

On a related note, I had another good idea for adding towers to trailers 
that don't currently have them, which will help with this problem.  With 
Ivan's input today, I think I've come up with a very viable solution, 
that will not be expensive and will be very versatile.  I don't know if 
I'll be able to complete one before the September contest, but by next 
year, I forsee we won't have this problem.  Those of you thinking about 
tower trailers (Ron and Steve) wait until you see my new design sketches 
before committing to anything yet.

Current status:  W4KXY has asked to be 2m band captain, NX9O has a 
standing order to continue as 222 band captain and I think WW8RR told me 
he wanted to do 432 again in September (confirm that with me Ron) and I 
am volunteering to again do 6 meters pending other volunteers coming 
forward.  Ivan has also said he's definitely coming with trailer and as 
a 6m op.  I think Kim said he's also planning to be here as usual 
(please confirm) and I think Bob Crone also said he was coming (also 
confirm).  Others, please let me know so we can get the list updated and 
let everyone else know what the plans are.  Jeff has told me he did put 
this contest on his calendar so he should be coming along to cook and 
operate.  We saw Paul this weekend on the mountain when he came up to 
visit and I'm sure he'll come operate some in September too.

OK, that kicks it off.  73, Bob  K4SZ