activating grids DN27, DN26, DN07

[ba...@k7bwh.com]

I’m driving into northern Idaho to light up grids for FFMA and anyone else on 6 meters:

• DN27bn – Sunday 7/21
• DN26gg – Monday 7/22
• DN07pc – Tuesday 7/23

I’ll have high power, a big antenna and good mountaintops; 6m only.

This trip is only coincidentally on the 2019 CQ WW VHF contest. So if you want DN27 in the contest, come find me on Sunday around 50.313 FT8 or if the band opens up then 50.125+ ssb/cw.

One day = one grid. My goal is to work as many people as possible so I’ll spend as much time as I can at each spot. This means at 10 am – 4 pm Pacific at a minimum. This gives me time to move the next grid for the next day and find a good spot. (Hey, how the heck do those rovers activate a big handful of grids every day?? I bet they don’t 4wd crawl up mountains to lookout towers!)

Track me on APRS at www.aprs.fi/k7bwh

DN26-27 are remote Idaho mountains in or near a big Indian reservation. Lolo Pass and Hwy 12 is scenic and marvelously uncluttered by cellphone towers; please spot me if you hear me.

If I have internet, I’ll announce when I’m on the air to the email reflectors and vhf-chat Slack channel https://vhf-chat.slack.com/. Text messages to my cellphone is preferred. I give preference to people who tell me their six-digit grid square. Don’t make me guess who/where you are! You won’t like me when you make me guess your callsign or location, lol.

 

Barry Hansen K7BWH

ba...@k7bwh.com

mobile 425-503-5548

Seattle, WA  CN87us

 

 

 

[k6...@juno.com]

Hi Barry,

The rovers around here go up & down I-5 , I-80 and Calif. 99 through the central valley and

bay area. And they do make QSOs when driving along ...   That's one way they get so many grids

into a weekend !

 

73

John K6YK

CM97

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[Mike Lewis]

We Rovers actually do crawl up gnarly 4x4 roads and do up to 5 or 6 grids a day. All in the route planning and for me, no set required. I turn the truck to point the 5 or so beams and use omnis and verticals as well.

Station operation is streamlined to a single button push for band change, I use 2 radios to ensure I can liason while running the bands or monitor activity on the major bands. 

My bands above 1296 are tripod setups still, but when you are hitting 10 grids in a weekend, most are remote and microwave contacts are unlikely so no time spent on those spots.

I will be set up at the first stop by start of contest then attempt to keep to schedule.

Mike

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[ba...@k7bwh.com]

Mike, awesome activity, I know you’ve done exceptional work on mountains. We rovers in the Pacific NW have challenging terrain to work around. Thankfully we’re often rewarded from the higher hilltops although we’ll never have the ham density of the East Coasters to run up the score. I admire all you’ve done.

You are so, so spot-on to note it’s all in the planning and preparation. Once the wheels start turning, all I want to do is execute the plan; I don’t want to stop to think and decide things, because I don’t have any better routing information on the road than at my desk with all the resources at my fingertips.

Driving up and down freeways in metro centers? Boring!  For sure, it’s the best way to rack up contest points and I’ve done it, and I know it’s a lot of work to do it well. But for me, to have real fun is to explore new grids and mountains, and hand out grids to the truly crazy guys that chase them. So I drive hundreds of miles away from metro centers and carry a kilowatt and a big 6m5 and tackle the highest places I can find. Ah, now that’s real living. As my father often told me: “To each to his own,” said the farmer as he kissed his cow, lol.

 

Barry Hansen K7BWH

ba...@k7bwh.com

mobile 425-503-5548

Seattle, WA  CN87us

 

[ba...@k7bwh.com]

A week ago I activated some relatively rare grids in Idaho and Washington.

Here’s a trip report with photos on my website: https://www.coilgun.info/travel/2019-07.htm

For more pictures, follow my links on that page into the rover location database details.

All contacts are uploaded to LotW so let me know if something doesn’t match up for you. I want to be sure you get credit for all your QSOs.

I like paper QSL cards too so I’ll snail-mail out a small number over the next week or two.

Thank you everyone for an exciting and productive trip!

 

Barry Hansen K7BWH

ba...@k7bwh.com

mobile 425-503-5548

Seattle, WA  CN87us