This Saturday, Septemeber 17, 2005, there are three events taking place:
- Amateur Radio Awareness Day and Emergency Power Operating Event and
- the QRP Afield Contest.
I’m planning work all three events with a single operation: my KX1 running off a battery from a picnic table in Gallup Park.
Amateur Radio Awareness Day is an annual event, and this year they’ve decided to shoehorn in the Emergency Power Operating Event. For the first part, I plan on having brochures near me on the picnic table. And, of course, I plan on evangelizing anyone that happens to show even the slightest interest. My emergency power will be my 12V battery pack.
The QRP Afield Contest is a contest run by the New England QRP Club. The contest officially runs from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm, but only your highest-scoring six-hour period counts. Another interesting thing about this contest is the way they score the contacts. You get:
- 1 point per contact if you are QRO (above 5 watts) and operating from a permanent location,
- 2 points per contact if you are QRO and operating from a field or mobile location,
- 5 points per contact if you are QRP (5 watts or less) and operating from a permanent location, and
- 10 points per contact if you are QRP and operating from a field or mobile location.
So, operating portable with four watts should put me in good stead if band conditions are good.
Anyway, I’m going to put this out on our club net tonight and send out a message to our club maililng list and see if I can get some other people to join me.
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