[VHFcontesting] Contest Next Weekend w3sz

[w3sz]

Hello, All,

I will be operating the contest next weekend from W3SZ in FN20ag, entering  
as SOHP, as usual [though the station is really SOLP for all PRACTICAL  
purposes].  My QTH is just south of Reading, PA.

I will have all bands 50 MHz thru 24 GHz, and would like to work you.

I would very much like to arrange skeds with anyone who is interested in  
doing so.

My plan is to work SSB and CW, both random contacts and skeds during the  
normal 'active hours', probably up until 11 pm or so.  I would be  
available in addition for JT65 or other WSJT mode skeds from 11 pm thru  
6:30 am.  Skeds on SSB or CW would also be welcome during those hours.  If  
you have a moonbouce capable station and want to get that otherwise  
unreachable grid by setting up a moonbounce sked [either CW or JT65]  
during the nightime hours, just let me know.  I will have moon here [20  
deg el] at 0730Z Sunday {0230 EST}, and could do moonbounce between then  
and 1130Z {0630 EST} Sunday AM.  My moonbounce station has 1500W out and 2  
x 2 2mxp32; the array should give a bit more than 21 dBd gain, with both H  
and V pol available, so if you are moonbounce capable we should be able to  
work.

The station is set up to minimize interference to others, so I am [except  
for EME] low power on the low bands; about 100 watts on 50, 144, and 222  
MHz, 50 watts on 432, 10 watts on 903, and 20 watts on 1296.  I then have  
15 watts on 2.3 GHz, 50 watts on 3456, 2 watts on 5 GHz, 2 watts on 10  
GHz, and 1 watt on 24 GHz.  I enter the contest as "High Power" because  
that is what the rules require given my power on 903 MHz thru 3 GHz.  I  
think the ARRL power designations for the higher bands have become  
obsolete, but that's another story.

903 MHz and 2.3-24 GHz are GPS-locked, 50-432 MHz and 1296 MHz are not.

I look forward to working you!

73,

Roger
W3SZ

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Roger Rehr
W3SZ
http://www.nitehawk.com/w3sz/