My experience is with the "electronically similar" FT 897D... Runs circles around my Icom 706 MkIIg... I now have TWO of the FT 897's in my "super rover". Shortly after the CQ Ham Radio Japan writeup
Similar problem in a 2252G... Reflow ALL the solder joints on the RF switching board... Chances are there is a bad one. Wouldn't hurt to look for short circuits on the preamp, as the DC power for the
Yes! I got one way back in March, and used it for the 6 meter sprint, all following contests, and a few band openings. It is currently installed in my rover vehicle, and outperforms the FT 897 with t
Other than treelimbs and the occasional improperly installed CATV drop wire, the long boom yagis (including FULL SIZE 6 meter 4 element Yagi!) sure work well! Generally can work stations 100-200 mile
My rover vehicle involves rotating antennas, all feeders are LMR 400, the standard non-stranded copper-plated aluminum center conductor stuff. I do have large rotator loops to compensate, some of the
Heck, the ROOF of my current rover vehicle is at 10 feet:-) The antennas run at around 13 feet, 3 inches. On most roads well-travelled by commercial trucks, their 14 foot height generally keeps the t
Kind of assumes there is some sort of "wireless" feedline? Whaddyamean I can't feed my 2 meter horn with waveguide?-) http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfcontesting ______________________
N7MX, when roving thru the grasslands of Eastern Washington, caught a sparrow with a 1296 loop yagi... bird got swallowed up right thru the center of all the loops! I guess the antenna survived, but
Got tons of 66-88Mhz stuff left over from the other users of the space between TV channels 4 and 5... Paging companies!!! Many systems, back in the "dark ages" before satellite data communications, u
Hmmmmm.... This is first VHF contest I ever really participated in, from start to finish. I went out to a local mountaintop with a barefoot Icom 202 and a Cushcraft 11 element Yagi, and had an absolu
Well, glad to hear the rest of the country had decent DX on 6... Out here in the PNW, there were some brief, weak openings into EN and FN, which kept those of us serious about working it scrambling w
Ditto! A fellow rover here in the Northwest corner is drawing up rules for a contest which may end up being run nationally.... your input sure would be appreciated. I have been invited to attend the
AMEN! I like the "shore power" rule change also, then I got to thinking about it for just a second and realized that any abuses such as visiting inactive fixed stations in different grids and running
Buried in the APRS thread and left more or less intact below are sound arguements for allowing multi/multi rover operations... The "disappearance" factor suddenly becomes a non-issue if the "lowband"
Not sure about that... another "rule change??" Been stuck in snow (twice!) and sand roving in contests... My first rover vehicle was named as the result of one particular misadventure during a Spring
Had great fun in the sprint despite lackluster tropo. Activity was excellent for such a contest here in the Pacific Northwest.... Speaking of rare grids: There has been some discussion locally about
Hmmm... Uniden HR 2510/2600??? Similar "motherboard" as the HTX100 but has ALL modes! Not sure what you mean by a "hostile" environment. I assume a hostile "RF" environment, not just because you are
How about this for a "wrinkle"... I know of a multiop that entered in the Unlimited class, but because they operated fewer than five bands they were "reclassified" as limited, although their score wa
My best guess is one no longer has to fit all the junk needed to make an amateur radio station into a single vehicle. Note the "old" rules said nothing about "vehicle combinations" which would imply
Hmmmm.... 40 minutes for a 2304 QSO? I suppose if you gotta dig the gear out of the trunk, set it up, warm it up, find frequency, figure out where the other guy is and get the antenna pointed... Yeah