[VHFcontesting] W4NH Contest Plans

[Ron Rogers]

Well….222.174 may be in the West coast repeater portion of the band, but here on the East coast the 8 state coordinating body SERA shows 222.100 - 222.200 reserved for weak signal, CW-SSB, etc. No repeater pairs are coordinated below 222.500. 
 
Even the ARRL band plan shows 222.150 - 222.250 as "Local coordinators option…"  and SERA is our regional coordinator. Unless some historic 222 tropo opening occurs this weekend from the East coast to the West coast I doubt any 222 repeaters will see interference from a handful of FT8 bursts.
 
We can re-visit this after contest….the whole point is to try getting some FT8 terrestrial stuff going on the higher bands out 400-500 miles for this contest and try to make the east coast operating frequencies easy to remember.
 
Ron
WW8RR
 
From: woverbeck [mailto:woverbeck at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2019 12:39 AM
To: Ron Rogers; VHFcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] W4NH Contest Plans
 
There have been several posts about operating FT8 on 222.174.  That is in the repeater portion of the band.  We have repeater inputs centered on 222.160 and 222.180.  FT8 activity on 222.174 is likely to cause interference to repeaters in many areas.
 
73, Wayne, N6NB
 
 
 
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-------- Original message --------
From: Ron Rogers <ww8rr at charter.net> 
Date: 6/7/19 8:34 PM (GMT-08:00) 
To: VHFcontesting at contesting.com 
Subject: [VHFcontesting] W4NH Contest Plans 
 
Tried to post this earlier today but it must have failed.. so trying again >


The W4NH Fourlanders VHF-UHF-SHF-Micro contest group will again be on the
air for the ARRL June VHF contest.

For this June contest the W4NH contesters will be operating  from our
secondary contesting location in Grid EM84 north of Dahlonega, GA.  

We have the usual stacked antenna arrays in the air again and equipment
ready to operate SSB, CW, FT8, MSK144, JT65, etc. on the 50-144-222-432-1296
MHz bands . 
Kilowatt amplifiers on the 4 lower bands provide QRO power. 

And.with all the heavy discussion at the recent VHF Super Conference about
FT8, more activity on the higher bands during contests, etc.  we want to
begin attempting FT8 QSO's on something other than just 50.313 MHz !!

In that light we will looking for random or scheduled FT8 contacts on the
higher bands. Following the lead of the FLWSS we will be using 144.174,
222.174,  432.174, and even 1296.174 for FT8 operations.

We now have EME capability on the 144-222-432 bands so plan to "be on the
moon" during our moon windows.

We will be watching the  Region 2 ON4KST 144, 222, 432 chat rooms and N0UK
(Ping Jockey) for schedules and spots. So if you want to schedule something
(FT8, traditional SSB/CW, or EME) on these higher bands, look for us on
these loggers.

So..get on the air and make some VHF and UHF noise in our direction this
weekend. We look forward to having you in our logs.


Ron
WW8RR
W4NH 432 MHz Band Captain

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