[VHFcontesting] Portable in rare grid squares

[Kutzko, Sean, KX9X]

Hi, Kelly-

The newly-created Fred Fish Memorial Award, sponsored by ARRL, is offered to any ham who confirms all 488 grids in the 48 contiguous United States. A very dedicated group of VHF'ers did some analysis and determined what the "rare ones" are of the 488. 

You can find an extensive explanation of their research at http://www.arrl.org/awards/ffma . W5WVO also wrote an article discussing this topic recently in CQ-VHF magazine.

For more specific info, you might want to join the FFMA Yahoo group. There are many folks there who can help answer questions about rare grids, how to mount a Grid DXpedition, and lots of other topics related to operating from a rare grid in the US. You can find them at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FFMA

I hope this helps.

73,


Sean Kutzko KX9X
Contest Branch Manager
ARRL - The national association of Amateur Radio
225 Main Street
Newington, CT  06111 USA
(860) 594-0232
email: kx9x at arrl.org

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:04:06 -0700
From: "Kelly Johnson" <n6kj.kelly at gmail.com>
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Portable in rare grid squares
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Suppose I wanted to do a grid expedition to the nearest "relatively
rare" grid square to my home QTH for a VHF contest.  What would be a
good way of figuring out what grid squares are rare other than to pick
one that I've never worked myself?

Wouldn't it be cool if LOTW will allow you to create a database of
active grid squares that have had QSOs uploaded to LOTW.  That would
help.  Any other efforts out there to create a database like this?