The 2015/2016 Contest Season is about to begin. Our first contest starts tomorrow, Saturday, 12 September, 2015 in the form of the ARRL September VHF Contest. To get the club off to a strong start, let’s see how many entries we can accumulate for this one!
The contest begins on Saturday afternoon around two pm local time, so you have your morning free to fine-tune your antennas, run new coax, or get the lawn mowed one more time before the neighbors notice that it’s getting ragged.
Six meters should yield a few easy contacts – each club contact counts double for the club score – or try the 2-m FM only category. Remember all that wall paper Ken, K3IU has been complaining about – maybe you can grab one or two for your shack!
See you in the pile-ups.
73, Mike, K1DM
With the K-index up between 5 and as high as 7 this week (and maybe into this weekend) some rare but exciting Aurora propagation, esp. on the 6m band, would be very nice during the contest. I’ll put in a little time on 50 MHz for the contest.
Planning on a good effort in Saturday night’s semi-annual 4 hr North American CW Sprint…the most challenging Amateur Radio contest around! No such thing as ‘running a frequency’ in this one. Take a listen! I’m way out of practice for this event but it will still be fun.
Good contesting…73, Bill W1WBB