[VHFcontesting] Working K5QE in the ARRL Jan VHF contest....

[Marshall]

Hello to all our friends in the VHF / WSJT world from the K5QE contest 
team....

K5QE will be operating in the ARRL January VHF Contest and would really 
appreciate any contacts that we can make via FSK441 digital meteor 
scatter or EME for that "rare" grid.  The contest begins 1900 UTC 
Saturday and ends 0400 UTC Monday (Jan 19th - 21st, 2013).  For those of 
us still on local time, that is 1PM Central Time on Saturday to 10PM CST 
Sunday night.

For those stations that are outside our normal range, I invite you to 
try to work us on 6M and / or 2M using digital meteor scatter OR 2M 
and/or 432 EME. When the moon is up, we will be operating EME on 
144.142MHz and 432.070MHz Second Sequence.

On 6M, we will be operating WSJT FSK441 digital meteor scatter on 
50.265MHz, grids, single tones ON.  We will begin 6M meteor scatter 
operations at 0200Z Sunday = 8:00PM Sat Night and will cease FSK 
operations at 7AM Local time on Sunday morning.  After that time, we 
will resume normal tropo operations.

We have several schedules this time, but as soon as we complete a 
schedule, we will call CQ K5QE 265 on 50.260MHz, but we will RX on 
50.265MHz and we will complete our contacts there.  If we are calling CQ 
towards the NE, we will be on First Sequence.  If we are calling towards 
the West or NW, we will be on Second Sequence.  We still have a few 6M 
time slots open.  If you would like a specific schedule, please write 
and we will try to find you a 6M slot.

Please remember that the contest requires the exchange of grids not 26 
or 27.  This is a good opportunity for smaller stations to get a DX 
contact on 6M, because the chances of an Es opening late at night are 
nil.  Please give us a try on 6M meteor scatter.  We run 1KW output on 
6M meteor scatter with fairly large antennas.

On 2M, we will be operating WSJT FSK441 digital meteor scatter on 
144.142MHz, grids, single tones ON.  We have several schedules on 2M 
also, but there are some open time slots. Please write me if you want a 
specific 2M sched.  When we operate 2M digital meteor scatter, we will 
RX on 144.142MHz.  We will call CQ K5QE 142 on 144.140MHz, but we will 
complete our contacts on 144.142MHz.  Please call us there.  We will be 
on normal sequence(see above).  Again, remember that the contest 
requires exchanging grids, not 26 or 27.  We run a stacked pair of 17el 
M2's at 160ft and 1KW output on 2M FSK.  On 6M and 2M, we will cease 
digital meteor scatter operations at 7AM CST(=1300Z) on Sunday morning 
and revert to normal tropo type operations.

Since we are a Multi-Multi station, we will be looking at the 
Ping-Jockey reflector whenever we are doing meteor scatter type 
operations.  Due to the ARRL's rules, we can not post there.  If you are 
not in the ARRL contest, you can post to the reflector freely.  Hence, 
you can talk to us, but we cannot answer back. Please feel free to spot 
us AND our frequency on the appropriate reflector if you see us--that 
way, others can find us.

Thank you in advance for spending some time to work us in the contest.

73 Marshall K5QE, EM31cj
www.k5qe.com

East Texas