[WWYC] M/M effort

[Chris Hurlbut]

It's a noble idea, but count me out!  There is no way I can afford to go to
CU.  I wish I could!  I'll work you guys though, GL!
-Chris KL9A (/W7)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marko Holmavuo" <marko.holmavuo@ps1.pspt.fi>
To: <wwyc@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:11 AM
Subject: [WWYC] M/M effort


> Nice to see that we are having nice discussion in this M/M effort.
>
> Juho asked, what would be right contest for us?
> I think, that CQ WW would be the nice. It just depends where we would go.
If
> we will take CQ WPX, we don't need to go so far away, because rare country
> will not help us much. Only good prefix, and good location (out side of
> aurora zone). And propably just single mode.
>
> And what is our goal. My opinion is that, we can lose from home station.
> E.g. in CU-country it isn't impossible to be first in EU, or even make the
> new EU-record. If we would like to go in 3-point location, it's much
> harder...we versus other world=).
>
> And what comes in CU-island, we must make some relations to local hams,
and
> ask them to recommend good location, etc.
>
> Operators..Just like Juho said, we need many operators + propably other
> peoples to make sure that everything will work fine. And propably we
should
> have a quite high operation skill level, there are no change to go "learn
> things"...
>
> Equipments: Propably our team members has own equipments, so we should
find
> out what we have, and what we don't have.
> I think that we can make some of our antennas by ourselves. I think, that
we
> need yagis, and GP's. Both, monobanders and e.g. open-sleeve tribanders.
We
> could use both wire(160,80) and aluminium(40, propably phased array?)
GP:s.
> Of course there are change to make some shortened 40m beams if fullsizer
> would be too big.
>
> We need laptops and network adapters. If we want to connect rig and
computer
> together (freq infos/rig control, cw-possibility?) we need connection
> cables, and couple of COM-ports.
>
> And yes, we must start planning now, if we want to make this in 2001. Of
> course, if it shows up, that we don't have enough time, we can delay whole
> operation and make it in 2002...
>
> Just like Goran said, it would be very hard job to put this all up, but
not
> impossible. I think that money is the biggest question. If we can get
enough
> sponsors, it would be much easier to make this come true.
>
> 73's de OH4JFN
> #59 WWYC
>
>
>
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