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Hope everyone had a super Easter weekend!

Well, from the folks responding so far, it looks like for FD 2022 we have AE4TQ Eddie, W4MC Eric, WB4SQ Gary, AJ2Y Joe, and KE4UW Dave in for sure, and maybe WK4U Tim, W2SWA? Steve, and KI4YSP Nick for some level of maybe/possibly/part time.?

For those who are interested in participating this year (or anyone who wants to come), how about lunch in a couple weeks to talk about what we might want to do this year.? Some of us may be going to the Calhoun Hamfest next Saturday 4/23 (with a side trip to the shooting range 10 minutes away).? So how about the following Saturday 4/30?? We can pick a place sort of central to those who are coming to lunch.

Feel free to share your thoughts via email as well.? I’ll start . . .? (hee hee):

·?????? With the number of folks we will have, we’ll need to keep the setup simple.? A few wire antennas, the 40m verticals, the 6m yagi, and maybe? a wire vertical for 80m, and call it a day.? Three radios?? Maybe a fourth dedicated to VHF/UHF primarily for 6m?

·?????? I think we learned a lot last year about how to operate off of solar panels and batteries.? It worked pretty well, and we could probably to that again with minimal setup effort, including a wee bit of help from one small generator that I have if the solar panels can’t quite keep up.

·?????? Joe can rack up as many CW points as he cares to, but like last year, it may be the digital modes that gets us the most points.? I’m thinking at least two, maybe three stations set up for digital.

·??????? For much of the day, we will probably have 40, 20, 15, 10, and 6m open.? Three or four stations all on different bands might simmer down the interference problems a bit . . . Or 6m may be dead as a hammer and the solar flux may drop below 100 again and make 10 and 15 useless.? YMMV

·?????? Regardless of the number of transmitters, we have some options in the class we operate in.? We could do the traditional A class, of course.? We could do the antenna setup the weekend before and use shore power for everything and operate D class.? Or we could set up the weekend before and use emergency power sources and operate E class.? Whichever we choose, who you can work and points per Q are the same.

Other ideas?

UW