Greetings, The revamped W1RT/R Intergalactic Roving Battle Jitney will make its maiden voyage in the June contest. Our proposed schedule can be found at http://www.w1rt.us/irbj/june2006.html, and is
heh .. you impressed Jason the ranger at the north gate :) He was describing your rig to me when we got there at about 6 last night, and we were trying to figure out who you were ... de w1rt/r John _
Disclaimer: I'm just a satisfied customer :) Rovers, you need one of these things! I built one a few months back, used it to look at all the leakage from my microwave oven (the jitney was torn apart
Easy to build one .. any old lawn mower engine and a car alternator. Some of my friends in the QRP world had one at Dayton this year that worked great de w1rt/john ___________________________________
Directive Systems shows 21.5"v, 24"h for 903, 24" and 26" for 1296 .. http://www.directivesystems.com/appnotes.htm de w1rt/r john _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing
Finishing up the new H-frame for the crank-up pole on the jitney ... I've now got the 2 foot dish in the center of the H-frame, and I'm thinking about spacing between the edge of the dish and the 4 y
Just got the crank-up loaded with antennas on the new H-frame and cranked it up! http://www.w1rt.us/irbj/p8270359.jpg Now if I can only get the feedline system worked out in a week and a half :) de w
Couple of people have asked about the mast ... I picked it up back in the late 80's when living in the Salt Lake City area. Dugway Proving Grounds was releasing lots of surplus and the markets had lo
In the past I've run my 2 foot solid dish on a seperate rotator from the rest of the microwave stack, and during travel I've had the dish turned edgewise to give minimum wind resistance. Now the dish
The jitney sails late Friday for VA Beach ...all times are WAGs, except the start :) 1400 - 1500 FM26 either Ft Henry or Fake Cape State Park 1500 - 1600 drive 1600 - 2000 FM16/17/27 Bridge-Tunnel 20
p.s. forgot to mention, we'll be on 144.247 as usual for coordination jd _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contestin
Xtof and I took the jitney down to Virginia Beach for an FM26 start from the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, where conditions were great! Unfortunately, by the time we got on the bridge-tunnel a c
Anyone ever taken one of these things apart? I've got a pair of them I'm using on the jitney to switch 903-1296-2304-3456 onto a single run of LMR600UF up the pole. During pre-installation testing, I
Well, I have some time this morning so I think I'm gonna fire up the Jitney and head to hogback FM08us and see what I can hear. I'll listen on 144.260 when I get up there .. de w1rt/r _______________
I've got a dog in this fight (I purchased W3IY's rover a couple months before he passed away), so I might as well join in :) Captive rovers don't bother me at all, they don't compete with me. All ben
Any idea *who* to email? de w1rt/john (also not a member) _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/l
Well guys, it looks like I'm not going to have enuf finished to consider a rove. Modifications in progress will prevent further destruction of the front ends on the Elecraft transverters, as well as
I've got similar problems with the PHEMTs in the front-ends of the 144,222 and 432 Elecraft transverters (50 Mhz has a bandpass filter and seems immune). I've not tried Dave's power meter idea (I wil
For that matter, does it mean that advertising your presence by making qsos during the contest is self-spotting? A simplex APRS exchange is no different than any other simplex FM contact. de w1rt/r j
The assumption would be that we're all on some frequency other than .39, and the intention is only to alert stations in range of our existence. One of the most frustrating things about roving is tryi