[VHFcontesting] [222Activity] Tuesday on 222!

[k3sk at buckwalter.co]

I was beginning to think you make have cancelled 222 night due to your recent 432 EME activity.   I'm glad to see you are a multi-tasker.

I will be on from FM07 this evening, but later this week I will be going silent on all but 50MHz VHF for a while.    I've run out of money and the last of the multitude of parts I need to modify my H frame and add X-pol to all of my dual use antennas (weak signal & EME) arrived today.    I'll be widening the H frame to allow for optimum spacing of the stacked arrays for all 3 bands from each other.  Then there is the matter of cutting and installing the 164 additional elements needed to add X-pol.  

When I had this brilliant idea I thought I could do it cheaply.   Man was I wrong.   It added up pretty quickly with 21 ft lengths of structural aluminum for the H frame and boom to mast plates, 40 stainless steel u-bolts, many feet of 1/4 & 3/16 inch element stock, 100 meters of low loss feedline for the added polarization, 56 ferrite cores for 1:1 baluns, and nearly 50 N-connectors. 

Hopefully my Big RAS Alfa Spid rotor and handle the extra weight and this will improve my signals for both terrestrial & EME.    

de K3SK

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From: 222Activity at groups.io <222Activity at groups.io> On Behalf Of David Olean
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 4:32 PM
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Subject: [222Activity] Tuesday on 222!

This is a bit late so I hope it gets read by all the 222 VHF phreaks and is a late reminder that tonight is 222 Night.  Get on tonight and try to make a contact on the 222 MHz band. I did get a note from the 222 MHz Activity Committee, and they have authorized a great prize to be awarded to a randomly chosen participant in tonight's activities. All you have to do is make at least one contact on 222, and you could be treated to a semi expenses paid vacation on the 4th of July to a cute little Bed and Breakfast place in Linden, New Jersey right next to the Rahway River and the SUNOCO Barge Docks. Enjoy water skiing on the Rahway  and a clam bake amid the metal tanks of the refinery while you watch the fireworks arching over the Pulaskie Skyway.   I have included a photo of your accommodations, and I can just imagine the excitement as everyone is now testing out their 222 gear in hopes of completing just one contact to be eligible in the prize drawing. You are only reponsible for getting to the mouth of the Rahway River. The Committee will supply all the rest for the fabulous 4th celebrations in store for the lucky winner.

The activity on 222 starts after dinner around 22:45 UT or so on the East coast and goes up past 0100 UT and later in the middle of the country. Last week was quite active, but with some bad storms in the Midwest. This time aroind, there isa bit of storminess in Eastern Iowa, but most areas are clear and it is beautiful here in the Northeast.  So please get on and make some noise. Last week I easily worked K9MRI via meteors in about 15 minutes. It was a fun sked and I will be looking fir more skeds this evening. After about 00:30 UT things locally slow down and I always try some long haul sked to check conditions.  There was a romor of some tropo in the midwest this AM.  Please check the ON4KST chat page to see what other 222 ops are doing.  I hope to see many stations on the band this evening.

73

Dave K1WHS

Some e mail lists will strip attachments. I hope the cozy B&B gets through to you.


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