[VHFcontesting] Re: [Rover] N2MO/MM to activate FM39 for contest

[Jacob Tennant]

Are you taking volunteers for radio ops! ! !  My wife said she would even go
out and get her ticket if she could contest off of something like that and
she has 0% interest in ham radio!!

Jacob Tennant  K8JWT
----- Original Message -----
From: <mugs at intac.com>
To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>; <rover at mailman.qth.net>;
<microwave at wa1mba.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:08 PM
Subject: [Rover] N2MO/MM to activate FM39 for contest


> To All,
>
> I received the following email from Steve, N2CKH, about his club's
> participation in the contest from FM39 abord the vessel BUMPS. Steve can
be
> reached at N2CKH at optonline.net
>
> 73, Mark, N2MH
>
>
> Hello Mark,
>
>   We plan to be active again during September ARRL VHF contest as N2MO/MM,
>   predicated on good weather of course. We hope to have many more
operators
>   next time around to keep all the stations active 100% of the time to
>   provide even more opportunity to work FM-39.
>
>   The beautiful trawling vessel BUMPS was made available by N2IHN for this
>   high seas adventure. To learn more about the vessel BUMPS visit:
>   http://www.njsr.com/bumps/. The team had a great time contesting at sea,
>   taking into account all the challenges that abounded operating from an
>   anchored boat in the ocean. This effort resulted in a seasick N2CKH,
many
>   happy VHF contesters and a claimed N2MO/MM score of over 45k points and
>   lots of QSL cards.
>
>   The vessel BUMPS will anchor about 200 feet center of 39° 59.652N and
73°
>   59.213W off the New Jersey shoreline in view of land about the area of
>   Normandy beach.
>
>   /s/ Steve Hajducek, N2CKH
>   home e-mail: n2ckh at optonline.net
>   IRLP Node 404, 53.430 PL 131.8 web site: http://www.qsl.net/n2ckh
>   146.730 PL 127.3 {} 224.120 PL 156.7 {} 447.925 PL 141.3
>   IRLP Node 728, 443.000 PL 127.3 web site: http://www.qsl.net/aerials
>
>
>
>
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