[SCCC] January VHF Roving Sites

Mon Nov 6 22:57:47 EST 2017

I just remembered another DM04 location that I have used to minimize driving.

The parking lot of Schurr High School in Montebello is pretty good.   There are

high tension lines to the northwest, but QRN has never been a problem.   Never

had anyone chase me out of there.  At least in June, it is always open during the

day on Saturday.  Sundays the gate is locked.

Altitude is about 350 feet above sea level.

Brandon - I would suggest roving to populated areas like Phoenix, Las Vegas, LA metro area, and San Francisco.

The Calif Central Valley has been VERY unproductive for me.  Very few stns to work there.

73,

Tim N6GP

P.S.  The June VHF results are out!   Bruce  KG6IYN, you did great on 3 bands!

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From: treen6tr at gmail.com <treen6tr at gmail.com> on behalf of Tree <tree at kkn.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2017 7:58 AM
To: Wayne Overbeck
Cc: Southern Cal Contest Club; brandonclark84home at outlook.com; Tim Goeppinger
Subject: Re: [SCCC] January VHF Roving Sites

The mention of Saddle Peak brings back found memories.  I once worked a guy in San Diego (who had a large antenna) with a modified Motorola brick while sitting on the ground up there.  Excellent site.

Tree N6TR

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Wayne Overbeck via SCCC <sccc at contesting.com<mailto:sccc at contesting.com>> wrote:
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<mailto:timgep at hotmail.com>> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [SCCC] January VHF Roving Sites
 To: "Southern Cal Contest Club" <sccc at contesting.com<mailto:sccc at contesting.com>>, "brandonclark84home at outlook.com<mailto:brandonclark84home at outlook.com>" <brandonclark84home at outlook.com<mailto: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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