[VHFcontesting] Gee....I wonder what there is to do on a Tuesday night?

[David Olean]

You know the feeling. Life has been good to you. Your meth lab has been 
cranking out product and you are rolling in cash. Your Smartphone has 
been keeping you in touch with all your 17,452 friends, and you are worn 
out from texting them all about how wonderful your dinner looked at Taco 
Bell last night.   Boredom has set in. The Ho Hum Blahs are upon you. 
You need some excitement in your life. You are craving for something 
new.  I would suggest that you turn on your 222 MHz rig and get in on 
the excitement that always comes from a night of unbridled mayhem on 222 
MHz.  After all it is Tuesday and every  VHFer should know by now that 
Tuesday night is a code word that instructs you to fire up that 222 Mhz 
rig and make some noise.

I don't know about you, but I am craving contacts on the band, 
especially now, after hearing about our midwest and western NY friends 
working tropo day and night for the last two weeks straight!  I want to 
get in on the action....any action. I will be on 222.100 starting at 
about 22:30, and hope to work as many 222 fanatics as is humanly 
possible. Over the past weeks, there have been so many tropo sessions 
for some folks that they are probably worn out, but us yokels up here in 
the pine forests of northern New England caught very little of the 
action. I really had one evening and the following morning up to about 9 
AM. VE3DS and his buddies in the Toronto area must be sick of hearing 
loud signals on the band. They were so busy, that at one point I 
understand that they were telling callers to take a number and they 
would notify them when their time slot was open.  I hope they appear 
this evening and they can sprinkle magic DX water on us to conjure up 
some more tropo. They obviously have the gift!

The weather looks pretty good across most of the country. Some rain is 
located from Oklahoma City northward up into the Dakotas, but it looks 
pretty benign.  East of there it is beautiful weather everywhere.  The 
action starts after dinner and can continue for a few hours. Many folks 
use the ON4KST Chat page for liaison and setting up long haul skeds.  
Use the 144/432 Region 2 Chat.   I will be on and exercising my 500 watt 
solid state amp starting around 22:30 UT.  Conditions are the best of 
the year around now. It is also a good evening to check out your gear 
before the big September VHF Contest this coming weekend.  I hope to 
work a bunch of folks tonight. If you are busy, just get on for  a few 
minutes. The more, the merrier!!

73

Dave K1WHS