For the Jan 20-21-22 ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes the West Carleton Amateur Radio Club (WCARC) is putting together a Contest Rover station. This project is being led by Tom, VA3NFA. Check out Tom's rover page here: VA3NFA Rover.
For the January contest I will be breaking the cardinal rule of Roving and I will be heading out on my own! To make this easier I will be running a more limited Rover setup with only vehicle attached antennas.
The VE3WCC Rover is planning to operate from four grids: FN14, FN15, FN24, FN25, and be active on 7 bands: 50, 144, 222, 432, 903, 1296, and 10GHz.
Here is an overview of the planned VE3WCC station:
Rigs
Mobile Antennas:
NOTE: I am only operating on Sunday, Jan 21st for this contest!
On Sunday morning I will be driving to the Almonte area to setup in FN15.
Next stop is in FN14 near Numogate and I plan to operate from there late morning and early afternoon.
Mid afternoon I will setting up be setting up in FN24 near Oxford Mills.
Early evening I will be driving to Cumberland (FN25) and then working my way back to Kanata.
To keep things simple I will be using paper logs for this contest.
Here are a bunch of sites that we found very useful in planning and setting up the VE3WCC Rover station: