[VHFcontesting] [PNWVHFS] Planning for January....

[Paul Kiesel]

Hi Eric,

Yikes, you mentioned five of the hardest grids to get
from here (CN87). Hope you are able to activate all
those rare grids. I will certainly be watching for you
and the crew. 

73, 
Paul, K7CW



--- kb7dqh at donobi.net wrote:

> 
> Still rounding up operators for an Unlimited Multiop
> Rover operation...
> 
> 
> Although ambitious, there is a possiblility of
> trying to blast RF out of
> at least a half-dozen of the rarest grids in the
> Continental US, which for
> whatever reason lie between two active VHF+ regions,
> which are separated
> by a large pile of mountains... the Siskiyou range,
> in Southern Oregon and
> Northern California...
> 
> Biggest obstacles will be road/weather conditions,
> and the price of Diesel
> in these remote regions.
> 
> The "plan" if you could call it that, is to try to
> get on the road and
> start the test somewhere around the South end of
> CN84, then work our way
> towards the Pacific Coast and CN72, CN71 and CN70,
> then cut over to DN00,
> DN01 and DN02, then head back towards the home grid
> of CN87.
> 
> If the weather is absolutely terrible then the route
> might stay well
> within the Pacific Northwest region.
> 
> However, if the snow isn't piling up on the
> highways, there may be
> opportunities for well-equipped stations in
> Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
> Nevada, and California to work us on as many as 11
> bands... (that is if I
> can convince W7GLF to drag along his 24 Ghz
> station:-)
> 
> More to follow as planning progresses...
> 
> Eric
> KB7DQH
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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