[SCCC] January VHF Roving Sites

[Wayne Overbeck]

Tim, I agree with your observations--and Dave Glenn's.  In 
response to your specific query, a good site on Saddle Peak is at 
the top of Stunt Road.  Take Topanga Canyon south from 101 to 
Mulholland and go west to Stunt, then up the mountain.  A GPS 
will get you there.  But that takes you a long way off the 101 
freeway.

For Brandon, my thought would be that going to 10 or more 
grid squares during one contest is very ambitious and may be 
counter-productive if you're roving solo (alone or with a partner
in a single vehicle).  You would have very little operating time in 
each grid square and you would likely not end up working your 
own grid square on many of the bands in many grid squares.  
Also, if you want to visit that many grid squares, you won't have 
time to go far afield from a major highway.

Visiting 10 or more grid squares really pays off and yields 
a big score when you travel with another rover (in a separate 
vehicle so you can work each other).  Then you can quickly work
each grid square on every band and move on to the next one.

Over the years, our rover groups had some excellent scores and 
won about 13 gavels (for the highest club aggregate score in 
the country) by roving together and making sure that everyone
worked everyone else on every band in each grid square we 
visited.  We sometimes visited as many as 20 grid squares in 
the early 2000s with as many as 15 rovers.

73 and good luck with your January rove.

Wayne, N6NB
 




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On Fri, 11/3/17, Tim Goeppinger <timgep at hotmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [SCCC] January VHF Roving Sites
 To: "Southern Cal Contest Club" <sccc at contesting.com>, "brandonclark84home at outlook.com" <brandonclark84home at outlook.com>
 Date: Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:04 PM
 
 Brandon,
 
 I welcome other rovers to Southern
 Calif.  More the merrier!  I am usually active in
 the June contest, and make half-hearted efforts in Sept and
 January because the activity is so low.
 
 
 I echo what Dave TEB said.   Can't
 beat Signal Hill for DM03.
 
 
 There is an OK site for DM04 in
 Glendale off the 2 Freeway.   The parking lot for the
 Scholl Canyon Ball Field has a good
 
 shot to the South (Orange County) and
 to the West.  It is very blocked to the north.  OK
 to the east.
 
 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.158717,-118.2047273,17z
 
 
 Another site for DM04 is in the Santa
 Monica mountains.  I operated once off of Mullholland
 Dr, but it is an unofficial motorcycle race track.   I
 operated from the turnout labelled "The Snake Carspot" 
   It is loud there!  https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0988862,-118.8047278,512m/data=!3m1!1e3
  I<https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0988862,-118.8047278,512m/data=!3m1!1e3>
 
 
 Others have operated out there near
 Saddle Peak.   Wayne N6NB do you have specifics on
 that?
 
 
 73,
 
 
 Tim N6GP
 
 
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