2011 plans for MAD days and contests

I had planned to be out this Saturday (April 2nd) but other plans came up out of the blue from the xyl…:(

Hopefully I won’t have other things crop up for the rest of the year.

 

So here are my current ‘plans’ for the rest of the year.

 

May 7th – GP Hill
Testing of new portable antennas for 6m, 2m, 70cm, and 23cm
3.4 and 10GHz
Spring Sprint contest day also

June 4th – Sterling State park
Same as April plans
finalizing of plans of staging and packing car for June VHF rover plan

July 9th – MI Section outing weekend – Lupton, MI
Demoing VHF/UHF/Microwave roving
Possible forum about VHF/UHF/Microwave in Michigan
Would like to see if I can entice a few others up here to show off equipment
and what a rover does for fun
This would replace MAD for this month

August 6th/7th – UHF Contest/MAD
Last chance to test and fix equipment before first weekend of 10 GHz contest

 

August 20th/21st

10 GHz contest – roving along bottom half of Lake Erie from Buffalo, NY to Monroe, MI

 

September 3rd – Port Clinton, OH
Last chance to test and fix equipment before September VHF and second weekend
of 10 GHz contest

 

September17th/18th

10 GHz contest – Roving from Traverse City area to Muskegon area along Lake Michigan

 

October 1st – GP Hill
Last planned trip of year to operate

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