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For the Northern California QRP Club, "QRP To The Field", April 27, 1996 (a.k.a. "QRP Field Day") a number of us ( more than 13) will be operating from a Historical Old Ghost Town in New Mexico, by the name of Riley. This town was famous for the bandits that hid out in the nearby Ladrones Mountains. Legend has it that over $50,000.00 in loot is still buried in the nearby mountains. Guess where we will be at night?
Riley, New Mexico (Ghost Town) Lat: 34 deg. 22' 50.35" N Long: 107 deg. 13' 47.55" W
Paul Harden, NA5N (pharden@aoc.nrao.edu) had suggested, for this event (NorCal "QRP To The Field"), that a multitude of stations (QRP & QRPp) operate from historical sites. There will be several in Colorado & Arizona too. Those stations will probably post where they will be in this newsgroup & the QRP-L reflector.
With the multitude of QRP stations, that will be in Riley, NM, we will offer a special QSL Card, if You work any of the stations there. If You are interested in the NorCal "QRP To The Field" details, send a SASE to WU7F at his callbook address. The flyer is 1 page. If you are interested in QSL information for the Riley, NM event, stay tuned for details & check into the QRP-L reflector (The URL is in Webcrawler & the other search engines.)
This event in Riley will start off on April 26th with the viewing of 2 comets. One of the comets maybe visible to the naked eye. Then on the 27th of April, You will hear quite a bit of activity from this Ghost Town, and hopefully others.
Listen for us, we will be near the QRP calling frequencies; 21.060 MHz (if 15 is open), 14.060 MHz, 10.106 MHz, 7.040 Mhz, 3.710 MHz & we will be on 6 meters & 2 meters SSB too. We will indicate that we are in Riley, NM. Try to work all of the stations in Riley. With QRP, and the size of the Ghost Town, we will be spread out across several canyons & one River (Rio Salado). Yes, there is an old Church, grave yard & Rock School House still standing. As for the Ghosts, well, maybe we will have a few more stations than we had anticipated, or less ;-)
Again, mark Your' Calendars, April 27, 1996, send a SASE To WU7F for the 1 page flyer & listen for all of us. We had heard a rumor that the Arizona QRP Crowd will not only be in a Ghost Town, but they will finance their operation by panning for gold too 8-)
72 (QRP 73)...Jay, WA5WHN, Albuquerque, NM
(Too bad that we are not doing this on Halloween)
GH0ST de WA5WHN K
P.S. For those of You in California, no extra points for Metaphysical contacts :-) (snicker-snicker).
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