We hope you will join us this Saturday for the annual Freeze Your Buns Off winter QRP outing. Some of our more balmy climes appear to sitting under a coating of ice this year. Zonies might even need an umbrella this year. Conditions should be good for a welcome change from the past few years. Ten through 20 meters has been especially good and even the lower frequencies as it approaches evening. Lots of DX early in the morning and shortening up in the late morning hours. 40m might be a good place to start in the earliest hours. The rules are our same Rules Almost Forever. Work anything that walks, crawls, or flies and it counts as a Q. Even SSB is tolerated. K7DD is the bonus station and worth 100 extra points per band. He’s worth a lot.
Mike, K7DD, and perhaps Norm, N9AV will be at White Tanks again this year at Site 4. Join them in person if you can, there is plenty of space with tables and ramadas. Bring your own trees or something to hold your antennas up. Verticals work well also, but be sure to throw in a few radials for those.
The auto log has been updated for 2024 and appears to be working. You can enter your scoring summary online as well as soapbox comments. There is even a way to enter pictures. We’d appreciate as always having those to enjoy. If you would prefer to send pictures or comments by email or links to where you post adventures, you can send those to me at jwstevens+FYBO2024@gmail.com and I will post them up on this website.
Our usual admonition applies again this year. This is not for an episode of Survivor. Please be very careful as the colder temperatures can be dangerous. You’ve made it this far in life, keep it that way as we will need stations to come back for next year.
Solar Forecast
Contest Calendar
- 222 MHz Fall Sprint2300Z, Sep 30 to 0600Z, Oct 1
- Phone Weekly Test0230Z-0300Z, Oct 1
- A1Club AWT1145Z-1300Z, Oct 1
- CWops Test (CWT)1300Z-1400Z, Oct 1
- VHF-UHF FT8 Activity Contest1700Z-2100Z, Oct 1
- Mini-Test 401700Z-1759Z, Oct 1
- Mini-Test 801800Z-1859Z, Oct 1
- CWops Test (CWT)1900Z-2000Z, Oct 1
- UKEICC 80m Contest2000Z-2100Z, Oct 1
- Walk for the Bacon QRP Contest0000Z-0100Z, Oct 2 and 0200Z-0300Z, Oct 3
- 222 MHz Fall Sprint
ARRL News
- Hurricane Imelda Strengthens, Threatens Bermuda
- The ARRL Solar Update
- ARRL Wants Every Ham to Help Us Pass The Bill
- National Preparedness Month: Use Your Ham Radio for Public Service
- Hams Needed to Track NASA Moon Mission
- NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Extra-Class Question E6D07 From Use
- The ARRL Solar Update
- ARRL Launches Nationwide Grassroots Campaign to Pass Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
- Gear Packed for 3YØK DXpedition to Bouvet in February 2026
- National Preparedness Month: Know Your Risk