Pilgrim Amateur Wireless Association
Brand – New 2 Meter Spring Simplex Event
Amateur Radio A Good Way To Stay In Touch
Subject – PAWA Tag Team Spring Event – 2 Meter Trail Communications – A Brand New Adventure
Goal – To Keep Simplex Active / And To Just Have Fun, Working The Bands
When – Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Time – 1:00pm
To Start – 146.775mhz NA1R West Bridgewater Repeater (For Check In’s) Along With Details
Contacts – FM Simplex on the 2-meter band.
Frequency – 147.480mhz / For A Back Up – 146.535mhz
Note – I Will Be On a Trail With Two h/ts – One On 147.480mhz – The Other One Monitoring 146.775mhz NA1R Repeater
With Frank, W1FIC Setup In His Mobile The Picnic Table Would Be Nice, But Looking Ahead They Say Rain of course lol
No Worries If It Does Rain, We Will Still Get On The Air Simplex
As we know — line of sight is usually about 5 to 7 to 10 miles and then the curvature of the earth begins to limit your ability to transmit to another person by simplex / But depending on radios / Antennas / Power used let’s see what we can do to start out the spring
Exchange – Exchange items include your call sign, the name Location you are operating from, and your power level.
City or Town – Name of the city or town you are operating from
Location – Your Choice / I Will have details of my location, during our first round of check in’s on 146.775mhz
How – Your Ham Shack / Mobile / H/T
Antennas – Your Choice
To Log Your Contacts – Paper / Pencils / Pens
• QRP – 5 watts or less
• Medium Power
• High Power
• Medium Power
• High Power
Note For This Event
Lets all have our h/ts on stand by on NA1R Repeater if possible, so we can monitor and so we will know when we have returned back
To the repeater and for massages if needed
Note – For KC1BEK – After making contacts and returning back to 775mhz would you be net control until we all get back there – Thank you
To Wrap up This Contacts Event – We will all return back to – 146.775mhz NA1R West Bridgewater Repeater – To Exchange Notes
Thank you, Team PAWA
Talk to you soon
Mike, N1NTM / KB1WCK, Joe
Pilgrim Amateur Wireless Association