The Magnolia ARC will host the 2024 Repeater Roundup on November 9, 2024, from 7AM
to 7PM. All call signs are welcome to participate; club membership is NOT required to take
part.
Three files have been uploaded to the FILES section of the Magnolia ARC Facebook page,
and these are the files you will need to download and print. They are Instructions, Log Sheet, and Repeater List. The files can be found here:
INSTRUCTIONS REPEATER LIST ROUNDUP LOG SHEET
Logs can be mailed using the postal service, or they can be scanned and emailed. Check
the instruction sheet for those addresses.
All stations, mobile, portable, and home rigs can participate.
The goal is to work as many contacts as you can on as many different repeaters as
possible. There are bonus points for making contact with YL/XYL operators, and youth
operators. Bonus points for your first UHF and your first VHF contacts. Bonus points also for
your first contact on a specific repeater.
Some of these repeaters are rarely used, so you may need to plan/schedule your contacts
on these repeaters to make sure you can make the QSO count. The repeaters being used
for the Roundup cover a wide geographical area, from Grenada, to Philadelphia, to Monroe
County. While a ham can certainly have a good time racking up points sitting at home, the
best point totals will probably be possible by going mobile and getting within range of every
repeater on the list. (Making the first contact on a specific repeater is worth an extra 250
points!) Working in small teams of two or three hams may make contact on rarely-used
repeaters more likely than hoping someone’s listening when you get within repeater range.
If possible, scheduling a contact with a ham local to those repeaters may make it even more
fun.
The goal of this contest, other than having fun, will be to introduce hams to some new
repeaters, re-learn how to program our VHF/UHF rigs, and expose newer hams to the idea
of contesting, without having to have a $5,000 transmitter on top of a 7,000’ mountain
somewhere. This whole event can be done with a Baofeng handheld and a tank of gas.
We’ve never done a contest like this before, so we are sort of figuring it out as we go along.
I’m sure there will be some modifications needed to the process, so please feel free to offer
suggestions via email to AG5ND@ARRL.Net. If there is enough interest to do this again, in
2025 we may add more repeaters to the list, including (possibly) some DMR repeaters.
INSTRUCTIONS REPEATER LIST ROUNDUP LOG SHEET
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