Rules are the usual. Make whatever contacts you can with whoever you can find on the air. Bonus station this year is K7DD in Arizona. If the scoring site is not working correctly, hang on we’re resetting it for the new year. Hope conditions are great and you make lots of contacts!! Mike, K7DD, and Charlie, NJ7V, outline their plans below — First Mike…
Sorry for being so late at getting this out here but there have been some things happening behind the scenes that have taken too much of my attention lately, like working more than I would normally like. But for this Saturdays FYBO event the call sign for the Bonus station/Club Operation will not be NQ7RP, it will be my call K7DD. We did this one other year but I don’t recall when exactly but it was several years ago. Reasons for this will become evident in the near future.
I will be packing up for the White Tanks Regional Park, area 4. This will be my first time out with the new IC-705, and a few new antennas. I have enough 12 volts to run a week or more with that radio. Anyone who wishes to join me, if you have gear or not is irrelevant as we can take turns operating. If you let me know early enough I can make sure there is plenty of food and water. If you have a favorite key or paddle or Headphones you can bring them along as well. Temps at the part should be in the upper half of the 40’s at the start and get up to almost 70, maybe more by afternoon time.
As usual up and down a few from the calling freq is a good idea because there are always non-participating stations who will be wanting to use the calling frequencies.
I have been building the field station up so as to be more easily heard. Solar activity has been up the last several days so Saturday could see some openings on the upper bands like 15 and 10 Meters so don’t forget to check them on the hour and half hour for new stations.
Looking forward to hearing all of you on the air.
Best 72, 73 Mike Baker K7DD
And Charlie — A twofer for SOTA and FYBO
Sandy and I are planning on being up in Flagstaff on Saturday for 3 summits. So I’ll be doubling up with SOTA+FYBO on those activations.
