[Fourlanders] FW: [VHFcontesting] KO4MA/R plans

[Jim Worsham]

FYI.  These guys are going to be driving right through our neck of the
woods.  Given the decline in rover activity in recent years we need to work
these guys all we can so everyone be listening for them.  I just wish they
had eight bands.

73
Jim, W4KXY

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are.  If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. Feynman

-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
Glasbrenner
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:28 PM
To: FLWSS at flwss.net; vhfcontesting at contesting.com
Cc: Dave- AJ4LU
Subject: [VHFcontesting] KO4MA/R plans

AJ4LU and I will be on as a Limited Rover with all four bands as KO4MA/R. 
The current plan is run and gun, starting the contest from near the EL88/89 
border, head north on I75, then northeast on I85, with an overnight stop 
near Greenville or Spartanburg, SC. Early morning Sunday we'll try to be on 
from EM85 and 95 before heading down I26 to I95, and back to Florida. If we 
have time and are still awake, we'll cross back on I4, do the loop around 
the EL87/88/97/98 corner, and back home to Tampa.

Grids we hope to be on from:
EL88
EL89
EM80
EM81
possible detour to EM71 and EM72
EM82
EM83
EM73
EM84 (overnight)
EM85
EM95
EM94
EM93
EM92
EM91
EM90
EL99
EL98
possible detour to EL97 and EL87
EL88

FT-857D and Par Moxon on 6m, and 146.55
IC-910 and 180w amp to 5 element yagi or M2 loop on 2m
IC-910 to 11 element yagi or M2 loop on 70cm
FT-817 and XV-222 to 5 element yagi on 1.25cm (new to us gear, no amp yet)
Yaesu G-800 to point the antennas.

We'll be heavily relying on your 6 digit grid to stay pointed while in 
motion. If the tropo situation over the Gulf is as good as it looks it might

be, we may head out US98 through the panhandle before looping north. If we 
do this I'll post a note before the contest starts.

Hope to work many of you, many times.

73, Drew KO4MA, and Dave AJ4LU

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