[SCCC] Club competition in Sept. VHF contest: an invitation

[Wayne Overbeck]

The Southern California Contest Club's participation 
in the first-ever club competition in the August 
ARRL UHF Contest went very well--better than any of 
us dared to hope.  Our rovers had very good luck 
and no mechanical or electrical failures.

Now the September ARRL VHF Contest is two weeks away.
It also has a club competition and some of us would 
like to try for the gavel.  The idea that a California 
club could seriously compete in a VHF+ contest seems 
preposterous at first, but with the strategic use of 
rovers we do have a chance against the likes of the 
PVRC (Potomac Valley RC) and NEWS (North East Weak 
Signal Group).

We need more operators/drivers for our 10-band 
VHF-UHF-microwave rover vehicles.  We're shame-
lessly soliciting volunteers.

We need to be in position on a hilltop at 1800z 
Saturday, Sept. 12 when the contest begins.  
When the contest ends at 0300z Monday, Sept. 
14 (8 p.m. PDST Sunday), we hope to have visited 
10 or 11 grid squares in SCCC territory.  We should 
be somewhere near Joshua Tree National Park by 
then (2-3 hours from downtown L.A.).

If you can't devote the weekend to a road contest, 
please consider operating at home and contributing 
your score to SCCC.  We expect to travel across 
the L.A. Basin around 3-4 p.m. PDST Saturday, 
then head up to the Antelope Valley.  We will be 
around the various calling frequencies 
as we travel: 50.125, 144.200, 222.100, 432.100, 
902.100, 1296.100, etc.  Some of us will also be 
on 146.55, 223.5 and 446.0 FM.  Note that 146.52 
is still off limits to contesting.

In addition to the rovers, we expect to have a 
DXpedition to CM94 (N6TEB and friends) and another 
to DM12 (tentatively K6VCR).  Please don't laugh 
at the idea of a DXpedition to San Diego:  without 
it we wouldn't likely work the DM12 multiplier 
on more than 2-3 bands.  These two DXpeditions 
should get every one of the rovers 20 multipliers.
If someone is interested in going on a DXpedition 
to another rare grid square that we won't visit, 
please contact me so we can plan our route 
accordingly.

73,
Wayne, N6NB