[VHFcontesting] 222 MHz Activity Night

[Fred Stefanik]

Over the weekend I ran with Arliss W7XU 4 times on meteors....We
finally completed on the 4th try with a giant blue whizzer that lasted
almost 30 seconds!
I hope to be on tomorrow night.

Reminder that Wednesday night is 432 activity night.  Seems to start
about 8PM on 432.100 and migrate to 432 .150 about 830 to 10+ PM.
Hope to hear even more activity there.

73
Fred, N1DPM

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 11:51 PM David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello 222 people
>
> There was a pretty fantastic VHF opening in the midwest this Sunday
> evening. I would hope that it moves eastward but it will probably not
> and we will be stuck with normal summertime conditions on Tuesday. The
> good news is that normal summertime conditions are a lot better than
> wintertime!!!
>
> I have always had a little voice inside my head, telling me that I
> should have a menial job at some point in my life. The closest I came to
> that was in Army boot camp. We had to coordinate our barracks cleanup to
> pass the morning inspections. My job ended up as cleaning and polishing
> the copper pipes in the bathroom. I got pretty good at it and still have
> the urge to polish a pipe or two in my old age.  I thought about being a
> dish washer in a restaurant if only I could do it for maybe two days at
> the most. There is something about such jobs that rests your mind and
> you can think to your heart's content while doing the mindless work. Why
> do I mention this?
>
> I just got a temporary menial job and will have to miss the Tuesday
> night 222 activity night. I will be away in New York state along with a
> work crew to remove two rather large 600 KW diesel Caterpillar
> generators from a large building along with all the copper cables and
> switching gear. So while I am pulling cables from large conduits while
> standing on a scissors lift, I can be thinking about all of my new
> hamster projects! I will be away until about Friday. I should get very
> dirty.
>
> So by missing the Tuesday night activities, I will be bummed out for
> sure, but secure in knowing that there are many people who can take up
> the slack and the evening should go along great!  Activity starts about
> 2300 UT and goes on for about two hours (or more if the band is good).
> The ON4KST Chat page is a common meeting place for coordination. Choose
> 144/432 Region 2 Chat.  Please make a point to get on.
>
> I made a couple of MS QSOs in the Perseids and many others had some luck
> as well. I know N1JEZ worked W0PN, W7XU and K9MRI on 222. I ran with
> ND0B in ND before the peak. He copied me OK, but I did not hear much
> that could be decoded. That is a longish haul. The meteors should still
> be good on Tuesday evening so don't be bashful! Make a sked or even two
> skeds!
>
> After seeing KA6U's portabobble EME setup at CSVHFS in LaCrosse WI., I
> decided to employ checkbook engineering to duplicate it, and now have
> the same dish AZ-EL system here all checked out and working on the bench
> at least. The system is a Sub Lunar AZ-EL gear box controlled by a Green
> Heron dual AZ EL RT-21 controller. With some simple added software, I
> have it auto tracking, following the Moon, and it works just fantastic!
> The plan is to mount it outdoors with a 4 meter dish on counter weights.
> While I am doing all that menial work later this week, and getting very
> dirty and oily, I can dream about how I want to mount the dish. Either
> it goes on my old 20 ft Maine Monster EME tower, or I make a new 10 ft
> Rohn 45 with some concrete in the base.  The cash might even pay for the
> new AZ-EL gearbox!
>
> So remember to be on 222 MHz on Tuesday evening. 222.100 is a good
> stating place, and see what you can work. Maybe that midwest tropo will
> surface a bit east on Tuesday. If you are not there, you will never know!
>
> 73
>
> Dirty Dave K1WHS
>
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