Activity breeds activity… Don, congrats on getting a 432 station on the air!!
We all started like that… my first Aurora contact with 10 w was with K2RTH on
Long Island on 144 Mhz in 1970.
I chased him for over an hour…when we finally worked and I told him I was
running 10 w he was amazed from there we worked
on tropo 3 or 4 times a week on a regular nightly sked.. you might want to try
skeds with stations … check in on ON4KST chat.
Don, get a rotor on that beam, a few more watts and point it up here to FN03!
73 Dana VE3DS
> On Apr 30, 2015, at 6:48 PM, Donald Fox via VHFcontesting
> <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> It is quite sad to read and observe the lack of VHF/UHF activity these days.
> This Sprint was my first ever 432 MHz event from my QTH (EM79ol). I worked
> one person ~16 miles away between 7 and 8:30pm local.
> With my M2 beam only at 30 feet, no rotor, and 25 watts, I guess I could not
> expect too much. I did hear several other stations in the noise, but not well
> enough to get their attention.
> I would like to put the 220 module in my 736, but that is a lot of money if
> the activity level will be the same or worse that 432.
> Having recently acquired this radio, I cannot confirm that it is working 100%
> either.
>
> Don N8ECH
>
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