[Mich VHF UHF Society] June vhf party get-out-of-the-house plans?

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From: James French <w8iss1 at gmail.com>
To: mivus at mivus.org
Sent: Tue, May 26, 2020 4:27 pm
Subject: [Mich VHF UHF Society] June vhf party get-out-of-the-house plans?

With our esteemed governor making more proclamations and extending the stay at home decrees (yes, I have my opinion about her but that's not for here  😉 ), I have this idea that just might get around those decrees.
What about those that want to go out and be rovers and those that just need to get out, how about starting a rest area (rest stop) activation party within the state?
The state parks are open so I looked at the mdot site to see what rest areas were open and only one showed as closed, that being out in Chelsea on east bound I94. If Chelsea was open, you could activate two grids from there.
This would give those of us as rovers the chance to operate from different grids plus still social distance and those who just need to get out that chance also.
Same basic rules as the June vhf contest except that along with grid square in the exchange, you also give out the name of the rest area (or state park) with it. If said site was in two different grids, you get extra points for activating the same site , i.e. Chelsea would count twice, once for each grid. Just show it in your logs with site name and grid square.
One other thing, you could activate city or county parks and rest areas if you wanted. Same basis. Name of city/county along with name of site.
This is a suggested extension of the contest for Michigan operators just to get operators the chance to get out and about instead of being cooped up.
I'll lay out my planned route next weekend. Thinking i75 north towrds gaylord and the west to lake michigan and then bouncing between grids on the lake coast.
Remember, there are 14 grids that can be worked in just the lower portion and 9(or 10?) grids in the U.P. along with all those rest areas along the roads.
If your interested, announce your plans here and then pass those modified logs afterwards to me and I'll look at them and then send a message out to the list with results. I won't be sending out any awards, plaques, or trinkets for this.
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