Thanks for the replies!
Certainly the cited rule serves well it's primary intent. At this point I'll
provide the second radio to whoever locally is more likely to make use of it
during the contest (locally there is little 1296 activity, so the whole
endeavor will probably yield just a couple of QSOs anyway.)
Re better antenna - the project radios are intended (with some packaging
improvements) to help *casual* hill/mountain climbing types (thinking a local
ham friend who is an avid hiker) to carry a completely self-contained
transceiver/antenna, deploy it hand-held style, and make a few QSOs, all in a
very few minutes without any on-site setup. The use of a patch antenna allows
the antenna to be part of the body of the radio itself (a small PCB-material
box with antenna on back side, user interface on front side, and
batteries/radio inside.)
Thanks again,
73 Dave WB0GAZ wb0gaz@yahoo.com
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