[VHFcontesting] Activating FM13

[Dave Agsten]

Hi Bill,

Maybe the website will help too. I'd keep posting everywhere you can to make folks aware of your operation. When I went to FM13 I thought a few posts would be enough but it wasn't. I did much better operating from a rest area on I40 - think it was FM04, but don't remember for sure. I'll be looking your way for sure.

Where exactly are you guys operating from? The State Park?

73 es GL,
Dave N8AG


--- On Fri, 7/4/08, Bill Fisher <wvfisher at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Bill Fisher <wvfisher at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Activating FM13
> To: "Joe Crawford" <crawfish at surfmore.net>
> Cc: w4txs at yahoo.com, vhfcontesting at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 2:47 PM
> Hi Joe,
> Thats interesting.
> Bill AA4R was past president of W4BFB club,  many Charlotte
> locals have
> operated from Fox Mike 13
> with W4BFB years ago..In fact Ted W4VHF and Paul AA4ZZ are
> advising us on
> their past experiences,
> and Nyles KS4S is a Fox Mike 13 veteran and will be joining
> us..for this
> effort.
> Hope conditions are such, that we can work you again this
> contest.
> Have been warned that we will be talking to ourselves,
> unless the bands open
> up, so hoping WSJT
> will help fill some of those gaps..
> 
> Have tried to put together a webpage where folks could see
> what we are
> planning
> http://nfourbx.googlepages.com/fm13dxpedition
> Once again will be operating as* N4BX*..
> 73 de w4grw
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Joe Crawford
> <crawfish at surfmore.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have FM13 in my logs several times. Seems like AA4R
> and maybe W4BFB were
> > operated from there.I remember AA4R operated from FM02
> on the Isle of Pines
> > several years ago. He was extremely loud here in
> southern TN. I think the
> > salt water helped his signal, as I could not work
> anyone inland from that
> > area.Maybe next year will be a good time to activate
> EL58 as the sunspots
> > increase.
> >                                                      
> Joe W4AAB
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Agsten" <w4txs at yahoo.com>
> > To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Activating FM13
> >
> >
> > >I hope Bill & Company have better luck from
> FM13 than I did a few years
> > >ago. I posted my Rover plans on here and other
> lists in hope of getting
> > >folks to point their beams that way. It didn't
> work. I traveled to Ft.
> > >Fisher State Park and transmitted until the cows
> came home. I managed to
> > >work 3 or 4 local guys and that was it. I had
> planned to cross the river
> > >into FM03 but didn't bother due to the lack of
> activity looking that way.
> > >I've since given up roving for the ARRL
> contests due to their "new" rules.
> > >
> > > 73 es GL,
> > > Dave N8AG
> > >
> > >
> > >
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