[VHFcontesting] K5QE and the Jan contest....

[Marshall-K5QE]

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 18th - 20th, 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 only have a few schedules this time, so if you would like a specific 
schedule, please write and I will make a fixed schedule with you.  When 
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.

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 primarily be doing EME since the moon rises at 0215Z = 
8:15PM CST which is perfect for us since we can run EME all night long 
without bothering the 2M tropo operations. We operate 2M EME on 
144.142MHz.  Please call us there or look for us working others.

We will operate 2M meteor scatter from 0100Z = 7PM Saturday until our 
moonrise at 8:15PM.  We will be operating WSJT FSK441 digital meteor 
scatter on 144.142MHz, grids, single tones ON.   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 PingJockey 
reflector whenever we are doing meteor scatter type operations.  When we 
are doing EME, we will be watching the N0UK EME-1 page.  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