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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

August was RaDAR Active

RaDAR is Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio originated by ZS6BNE. The Monthly RaDAR Challenge is on-going. My best RaDAR Challenge Ops point wise was August 3rd from Top Sail State Park. I walked 2.5 kilometers to the picnic area and made 5 QSOs. In the the Radar challenge if you walk 1 kilometer and setup the QSOs are 2 contact points each.I got bonuses 7 for at least one digital contact, 3 for at least one CW contact and 5 for at least one QRP contact. So contact points plus bonus is 10 + 15 = 25 total.

August was a very rainy month but as you see below I got outside fourteen times. The most operating was the Skeeter Hunt in Dothan AL. I operated with Tom WD0HBR. Notable also was the 40 meter RaDAR On-The-Air Meetup on August 24 and a semi-pedestrian mobile outing on August 31st. Both were at Top Sail State Park

Of course a highlight of the month was attending the Huntsville Hamfest, attending the Monte Sano event. I gave a on RaDAR talk for the QRP forums. A special thanks to Eddie ZS6BNE, Marcus NX5MK and Craig NM4T for help with the RaDAR talk. I also enjoy posting and reading posts on the Google+ Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio Community. There are 63 members in the community now.

Radar Outings:

8/1 EM70DE97QB Night ops in front yard Alexloop
30M CW OH
40M CW GA
8/3 EM60UI Top Sail State Park AlexLoop
17 PSK Cuba
17 CW ME PA
17 USB MO Mexico
8/5 EM70CE82 RaDAR Lunch Alexloop
20 CW PA
8/8 EM70CE82 RaDAR Lunch
20 CW NJ Alexloop
8/11 EM71HE Dothan AL Skeeter Hunt with Tom WB0HBR Broadside Doublet & Alexloop
  20M CW CO, PA, MO, ON, WI, ON, ON, DE, TX
15M CW France
40M CW NC, NC, GA
8/16 EM64QR Huntsville, AL Alexloop
20M SSB Cuba
8/19 EM70CE82 RaDAR Lunch LNR Trail Friendly Endfed
40M CW GA
8/20 EM70CE82 RaDAR Lunch LNR Trail Friendly Endfed
20M CW MO
8/24 EM60UI 40 Meter On-The-Air Meetup 40 meter Dipole
40M CW OH, FL, AL
40M SSB FL, MS, AL, FL
8/26 EM70CE82 RaDAR Lunch Alexloop
20M CW OH
8/27 EM70CE83 Pete Edwards Field
20M CW NJ
20M SSB CA
8/29 EM70CE82 RaDAR Lunch LNR Trail Friendly Endfed
20CW OK
8/30 EM70CE82 RaDAR Lunch LNR Trail Friendly Endfed
40M SSB GA,
20M CW VA, WI
8/31 EM60UI Top Sail State Park On foot RaDAR Alexloop
17M SSB ME, El Salvador, MA, MN, MN

EM70DE97QB Night ops in front yard 


EM70CE82 Lunch Site

EM64QR Huntsville behind La Quinta

EM60UI Topsail State Park 40 Meter Meetup

EM70CE83 Pete Edwards Field

EM60UI Topsail State Park 8/31 On-Foot RaDAR

EM71HE Dothan AL Skeeter Hunt