Hello! Just in case you are in the western North America and still need grid DN25 on 6m, I wanted to let you know that K7VK, K7PX and I are planning to head up to 7800' Bare Cone Mountain in the Bitterroot Range on Monday September 28 for an overnight 6m Terrestrial Propagation Mode mini DXpedition. If anyone wants to see on Google Earth where we will be, the coordinates are:
Latitude: 45°43'9.43"N Longitude: 114°24'44.24"W I am bringing along my K3 with PR6 preamp, laptop computer with GPS timekeeping. Vick has Steve's 5 element backup yagi tuned up, and I have broken down my 6M8GJ and Portable Mast ( http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/6M8GJassembly.htm ) into largish sections for transport and fast assembly up on the mountain top. I will take along LMR600 low loss feedline, just as on a 6m EME DXpediiton - the only difference is that we will not be running an amplifier up there. We hope to just beat the snow up there ;-) Vick says that he also will have liaison on 40m, so we will be monitoring 7133-7136 if people are not copying us and want to let us know to turn the antenna or something ;-) We will NOT have any internet capability up there, but please watch the ON4KST Region 2 6m chat page and the DX CLUSTER spots for information posted by others: http://www.on4kst.info/chat/login.php?band=7 We will monitor either 50.190 or 50.125 when we are not transmitting. Please don't expect us to be transmitting all the time, because we will only be on battery power. If people don't hear us, but are interested in working us, they should call for us. We will come on if we copy anything. Based on my experience and the 7800' high QTH we will have, I am sure we will be able to contact anyone between 600 and 1200 miles on JT65A mode using D layer scatter and under 600 miles on ground wave. This little barefoot (100w) DXpedition should demonstrate the ability to collect grids year-round on 6m using the power of JT65A. We will plan to start out between 1800 and 1900Z Monday on 50.190 beaming NW on JT65A mode (we will always XMIT in the first seqeuence, regardless of mode). I am inclined to stay primarily on 50.190 throughout the day and evening, switching to various modes as is appropriate. We will have CW and SSB capability also in the event signals are extraordinarily strong, and will monitor 50.125 when we are not busy working stations on 50.190. On Tuesday morning we will plan to operate FSK441 on 50.260 (and possibly QSY to some other frequency as required). If we are going to be listening up 10, we will send something like "CQU10 K7VK DN25". Similarly, if we are listening down 10, we will send something like "CQD10 K7VK DN25". We probably won't be on past about mid-morning on Tuesday, since we will have to tear down and leave at least by noon. I hope people who still need DN25 can be QRV at some point during our little mountain top excursion ;-) GL and VY 73, Lance -- Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8, E51SIX) P.O. Box 73 Frenchtown, MT 59834 USA QTH: DN27UB TEL: (406) 626-5728 URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj 2m DXCC #11, 6m DXCC #815 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
