[VHFcontesting] 222 MHz Activity Night

[Dave Olean]

Hi VHFers,

It is Tuesday and I should be heading up to the shack for the evening, 
but we are in the middle of the first big snowfall around here. The snow 
depth is predicted to be 6-10 inches, which is quite deep for 
negotiating the woods road that goes up to the shack.  It looks like I 
will probably not make it this evening. Heaviest snow is this evening 
around activity time. I got up early and was hauling diesel fuel up at 8 
AM this morning.  The generator fuel tank was very low and so I hauled a 
couple of fuel containers with 12 gallons of diesel.  It was snowing at 
7 am but had not accumulated much and i got the fueling completed. Now 
the snow is quiet deep and I am not sure that I can reach the shack. 
Temps are in the low 20's and will drop to single digits the rest of the 
week.

Activity has been a bit slow on Tuesdays of late as cold weather and 
poor condx has thinned the herd a bit.  Activity starts around 00:00 UT 
on the East Coast. Lots of contacts are made with coordination on the 
ON4KST Chat page

  http://www.on4kst.info/chat/index.php

Activity spreads out around 222.100 with CW, SSB and FT8 on 222.174.

73

Dave K1WHS