[VHFcontesting] Support for KA6U's Grand Tour of the States...

[Marshall-K5QE]

As most EME ops know, Peter-KA6U has been on a "Grand Tour" of the US 
states.  He has operated on 1296, 432, 222, and 2M EME from 45 states in 
the US(maybe more, I lost count).  He has been instrumental in new WAS 
awards for 222MHz and 1296MHz.  There may have been a 432 WAS in there 
somewhere too.

Peter has told me that the costs for this extended rove has been in 
excess of $25,000 and in particular the costs have been 50% higher than 
originally planned.  This is due to the current economic situation here 
in the US--very high gas prices, food prices, costs for motel rooms, and 
everything else.

I want to ask those of us in the EME community that have benefited from 
this historic "Grand Tour of the States", to make some donations to 
Peter to help with his unprecedented costs. If we can provide more 
support for Peter, he can do more roves. Peter's PayPal address is 
petervanh143 at gmail.com.

I have made a substantial donation towards Peter's expenses and I 
challenge other VHF ops to do the same.  I thank you for your help.

73 Marshall K5QE