[VHFcontesting] W1RT/R June plans

[John D'Ausilio]

Here's the more complete schedule ...

1400-1500 FM26 south of Va Beach
1500-1600 travel
1600-2000 FM16/17/27 CBBT
2000-2200 travel
2200-2300 FM28  Deal Island
2300-0030 travel
0030-0130 FM18 Cambridge Hospital

sleep

0800-0845 travel
0845-1000 FM19/29 Ruthsburg
1000-1330 travel
1330-1500 FN10 Pismire Ridge
1500-1600 travel
1600-1700 FN21 Pimple Hill
1700-1800 travel
1800-1900 FN20 Alamuchy rest area
1900-2000 travel
2000-2100 FN30 Palisades Parkway
2100-2200 travel
2200-2300 FN31 Tashua Hill

13 grids if all goes well .. 144.247 .. schedule subject to inflight changes

de w1rt/on4iy

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:37 PM, John D'Ausilio <jdausilio at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK .. enough stuff is working that I feel confident in announcing ...
>
> The East Coast Grid Grinders will once again deploy (a new, improved,
> MK3 version of) the Intergalactic Roving Battle Jitney for the contest
> next week. Operators John W1RT and Xtof ON4IY look forward to working
> you on all bands 50-10368Mhz.
> Current plans call for an FM26 start south of Virginia Beach, then
> 16/17/27 from the CBBT, 28 from Deal Island, MD, 18 from Cambridge, MD
> all on Saturday. A few hours of sleep and then FM19/29, and probably
> FN10/20/21/30/31 on Sunday.
> Hopefully we'll have better scheduling info next week.
>
> The Jitney has been rebuilt from scratch into a new(er) vehicle after
> the original '88 astro spent time underwater last October in the 100
> year flood that hit southwestern CT. Hopefully the '00 Safari
> (extended cargo AWD!) will provide many years of grid grinding for
> Xtof and I. You can see raw photos of the rebuild at
> http://w1rt.us/rover .. I'm working on getting them into a
> wordpress/gallery setup with captions and stuff, but you can get an
> idea of what the process was like ..
>
> We'll post final plans and schedule a couple of days before the 'test ..
>
> de w1rt/john
>