PAWA Spooktacular Simplex Saturday, Coming Up October 26, 2024

 

Pilgrim Amateur Wireless Association 


                                                                        
Subject – 2 Meter Simplex     

Topic – On The Air With Team PAWA And Friends

Net Control – N1NTM, Mike  

Date – October 26th

Time – Starting @ 1:30pm

Everyone Is Welcome To Join Us 

 From A Spooky Location Of Your Choice

Optional For Fun – Send Me A Photo Of Your Location With A Halloween Background / Decoration
Something That Makes It Spooky, I Will Share That with Everyone In A Report

Antenna – Home Brewed / Tape Measure Yagi / Sqalo / Shack / Mobile / Or Something That You Bought 

Radio Gear – Base Station / Mobile / H/T / Your Choices 

Additional things needed – Pencil / Pen / Paper, for logging

Note – We Do Not Want To Leave Anyone Out, All Is Welcome To Use What You Have From Where Ever You Can 

Our Goal – To take simplex to a new level, trying different things as we go, you will be surprised what you can do

The one rule that we have – And that is lets have fun 

Frequencies, for simplex – / 146.535mhz / 147.480mhz

Repeater for this event – 146.775mhz NA1R West Bridgewater
Hi Everyone 

Hope you and you’re doing well, so for this simplex adventure I will list below what I thinking we can try

1 / To start lets all meet on 146.775mhz I will take check ins 

2 / Then I will put together two teams / Along with a net controller for each team 

3 / Once we have that in place, team 1 and their net controller will then qsy to – 146.535mhz

4 / Team 2 and their net controller will qsy to 147.480mhz 

5 / Once there, log all contacts that you are able to make / Switch Frequencies if you would like to  

6 / When finished return back to 146.775mhz – Try to monitor this frequency while your on  simplex if possible

7 / Once everyone returns back, I will take a roll call, then we can have a discussion on our results

8 / I will first reach out to the two net controlers and ask them for their reports

9 / Then I will go through our list and ask everyone for their report, and thoughts  

10 / Then one more thing for fun – Seeing Halloween is right around the corner lets use this discussion for
some of the scary things that may keep us up at night / Here are some examples below 

Radio Frequency Interference / Common Mode Interference / Lightning Strikes / Worn and inefficient coaxal cable
Cut fingers for an installation / Pile – ups / Gear ruined by water damage / Poor performing vertical antennas 
Thats spooky stuff for sure / Our goal just have fun  


W1FIC, Frank and myself will be set up in a spooky park and there are some around lol / Our gear will be 
Yaseu FT – 991a / I will bring my Yaseu FT – 2900 for a stand by along with our h/ts

If you would like to try something durning this event that you have in mind, no worries, my friends 
This will be awesome as we all work together as a team and encourage one another and enjoy our hobby

We can also make changes if needed as we go, no worries 
Ham Radio, it offers something for all of us and takes us to some interesting and fun places  
With club members and friends, PAWA A place where everyone is welcome 


Thank you, talk to you soon, my friends, team PAWA

Mike – N1NTM

Pilgrim Amateur Wireless Association


 




 






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