Florida State Park Marathon for FLSPOTA Contest & RaDAR Challenge April 7th

Dennis WA6QKN and Greg N4KGL will start at St. Andrews State Park near Panama City, Florida, head West along the Gulf Coast activating as many Florida State Parks as we can in eight hours. We will try to get at least five and up to ten contacts at each park. Our kick-off will be the SO-50 satellite pass at 1300 UTC/ 9 AM CDT. While still at St. Andrews, we will try the HF bands below and 2 meter FM Simplex on 146.565. Then we will hit the road with stops at Camp Helen, Deer Lake, Grayton Beach, Eden Gardens, Top Sail and other state parks as time permits. We will be passing out the park info for FLSPOTA, POTA, and RaDAR at each park. watch our progress via APRS under callsign N4KGL on https://aprs.fi

40 meters 7.200 LSB, 7.050 CW

20 meters 14.250 USB 14.050 CW

15 meters 21.300 USB 21.050 CW

10 meters 28.450 USB,  28.050 CW

60 meters Channel 4: 5371.5 USB (Not for Contest or Challenge credit) 

We will monitor the AC4QB repeater at 145.330 ( Not for Contest or Challenge credit )

Although there are times and frequencies listed above, the better way to know where we are is to enter our calls as triggers in HamAlert https://hamalert.org/login Please register and you can also get the HamAlert App for Android. 

If you want to chat with us and other RaDAR Ops get the WhatsApp App. Go to this link to join the RaDAR Chat https://chat.whatsapp.com/BS1fAbRG2E5LTpeRGWzI8Q Spots are appreciated at https://www.dxwatch.com/

The RaDAR Challenge Rules are at http://radarops.co.za/index.php/radar-rules/ and FL State Parks On The Air rules are at http://flspota.org/rules/  Also see Parks On The Air (POTA) at https://parksontheair.com/

This replaces our previous plan to go to St George Island. Let us know if you will be out portable or chasing.us.

Good Luck and be safe,

Greg N4KGL