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| Spruce Goose Special Event Station Detail Information |
| Thank You For all of those who participated! |
W7RXJ Special Event operators worked from either their QTH, or the City of Newberg Public Safety Building. All were located in Yamhill County and just a few miles from the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum where the Spruce Goose is housed. As operator times were reserved, their sign-up times, frequencies and modes were listed at the bottom of this page. Our operators are not contesters and took a relaxed approach to collecting contacts.
In FT8 mode we used "CQ SES W7RXJ CN85". Tail-ending was discouraged, as after each contact, our operators would be reviewing auto collected data to ensure correct information has been logged. For other modes we asked for the first name, but with FT8 we understand there is no easy way to get the Contacts first name, so we did't have any requirement for that via FT8 QSOs. Thus the necessity of the extra care for logging. This probably resulted in some delays before the next CQ call. This delay may also lead to the transmit offset frequency changing as other FT8 operators start using the frequency the SES operator was using.
Similar situations may cause operating frequency changes with BPSK31. Attempts would be made to keep the transmission offset near 1800 Hz from the standard BPSK31 dial frequency for the band.
You were welcome to work our Special Event Stations on multiple modes, bands, and days, though only one QSL request per Call Sign would be given out.
| Band/MHz | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 2m FM | 70 cm |
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| CW | 3.538 | 7.038 | 14.038 | 21.038 | 28.038 | 50.038 | -- | |
| Phone | 3.838 | 7.238 | 14.238 | 21.338 | 28.338 | 50.138 | 146.580 Simplex | -- |
| Digital FT8 | 3.573 | 7.074 | 14.074 | 21.070 | 28.074 | 50.131 | -- | -- |
| Digital BPSK31 | 3.580 | 7.070 | 14.070 | 21.080 | 28.120 | 50.290 | -- | -- |
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