Welcome to the VE3WCC VHF+ Rover Page

Old link: June 2006 ARRL VHF Contest

For the Sept 9-11 2006 ARRL VHF QSO Party 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.

* Current Schedule for Sept 2006 ARRL VHF QSO Party Contest *

* Results/Soapbox for the June 2006 Contest*

The September 2006 VE3WCC/R Team

Rover Team Members:

Tom VA3NFA
Steve VA3SAX

The Goals

The primary goal for this contest is to experiment with a modest Rover setup and to have a lot of fun! Idealy we want to make several QSO's per band from each grid.

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.

The Station

Here is an overview of the planned VE3WCC station:

Vehicle

Super-Charged Custom 2000 Ford Winstar proudly owned and operated by VA3NFA

Rigs

FT857 for 50(100w),144(50w),432(20w)
HR2600 IF and Demi Transverter for 222(10w)
FT817 IF and DownEast Microwaves Transverter for 903 (10w)
Kenwood FM Mobile Rig for 1296 (20w)
Tellurometers for 10Ghz FM Wideband (~100 mw)

Mobile Antennas:

50: PAR Omni Loop
144: Horizontal Loop for SSB, Verticle for 144/446 FM
222: Horizontal Loop

Stationary Antennas:

432: Homebrew (by VE3CVG) 9 element yagi
903: Directive Systems 13 element looped yagi
1296: Homebrew (also by VE3CVG) 13 element looped yagi

The Route and the Plan

NOTE: We are only operating on Sunday, Sept 10th, for this contest!

On Sunday morning we will be driving to the Almonte area to setup for FN15.

After lunch we then drive to a great spot in FN14 near Numogate and plan to operate from there in the afternoon working the locals and turning the antennas South to work into the states.

Mid afternoon we are setting up be setting up in FN24 near Oxford Mills.

early evening we will be driving to Cumberland (FN25) and then work our way back to Kanata.

To keep things simple we will be using paper logs for this contest. We expect that we will take numerous "survival" items along with us including a spare car battery, tool kits, spare coax, connectors, compas, GPS, water, pop, food, bug repellent, etc.

Rover Resources

Here are a bunch of sites that we found very usefull in planning and setting up the VE3WCC Rover station:

VHF Site

So, you want to be a Rover?

Rover Resource Site