Although it seems my first rigs seemed to be used, very used mobiles, (save the Kenwood twins for HF) most of them crystal-controlled FM things no less, (couldn't afford the big bucks for even the us
The big problem with doing microwaves as a singleop rover is the time demands placed on the operator. This removes available time from operations on lower bands where more QSO's can be made, but with
Such a station would have no choice but to work as many other stations as possible... A possible operational scenario would look something like this: One operator on 6 meters, one op for two, one for
Much here depends on what antennas are you using. Most rovers use some sort of omnidirectional "radiating dummy load", either vertically or preferrably Horizonatlly polarized... I have learned that Y
Guess that would depend on how much forest you have to blast thru to get to clear air... This is where the higher gain directive arrays help out... A few trees here and there or a small thicket in so
ZZZZactly... If you are roving as I do most of the time, "like a bullet without a target" a good time to head for a new grid is when the QSO rate falls off dramatically, or, you have worked everyone
Yes, I did... I also built new 2 and 432 antennas, drilled up a new boom for the 903 looper and transferred all 40 elements, replaced the feed and respliced the boom on 1296, replaced the boom on th
Well, an 11 station rover pack would possibly not make it out of one grid corner during the short contest periods we currently enjoy, unless of course they only employed a minimum number of bands. Pa
Lessee.... Rule would read something like: Rovers Only:....... Unique calls appearing in your log in excess of 20% of the total stations worked per band per grid square activated will result in a (in
Y'all don't forget-- The first weekend of the 10 GHZ and up contest begins this Saturday! Gotta work saturday, but would like to hand out some points to VE7DXG on Sunday. Should be lots of shots poss
The diode isolators work OK provided the alternator is externally regulated. Alternators with internal regulators with external sense wiring require a special diode isolator with the sense wire outp
Best thing I ever did was putting the rover station in a bus... especially when I put it into the Bigger One... Eric KB7DQH http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfcontesting ________________
W7GLF and myself (KB7DQH) may have heard some reflections as far North as CN87... We both heard some very brief activity on 6... then nothing. At the time we were on 144.240, I had just switched on t
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That thought has crossed my mind, or just keep heading South and work all the rovers and mountaintoppers in Califronia. Hear there will be lots of stations out and doing microwave stuff too... Once i
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Oh by the way... Reporting... Figure out what your "NFC Championship Challenge" score is and send it my way... Then I can figure out who won, and I will let you all know just as soon as I get back fr
Modest stations? Well, compared to W5UN..... But, the 50-160Watts and single 2-3wavelength Yagi that most people have I would consider "average". In CN87QL I ran a severely modified Cushcraft A147-11