Hmmmmmm......... I've had randoms on 10 Ghz! Mostly someone "tailgating" a "sked" If I could call it that. Lots of "spies" on the "usual" microwave contact coordination frequency of 144.250.... Altho
My 6 meter and 2 meter antennas on my rover are a foot apart. I use a TE systems 0552G on 6 and newer Mirage B "30"16 on 2 meters, and full output on both setups. BUT also a HF/6 duplexer on the outp
Still rounding up operators for an Unlimited Multiop Rover operation... Although ambitious, there is a possiblility of trying to blast RF out of at least a half-dozen of the rarest grids in the Conti
So far, so good... Replaced some stuff, got the trash and extra junk mucked out of the Bus... now in the process of stowing stuff that will not necessarily be needed for contest ops, but, should be k
Look up AA7A... He has construction plans for a ten element unit he uses for 50Mhz moonbounce... I have constructed a similar antenna... works great! Eric KB7DQH _____________________________________
My driver told me as we left, that when we started poking around your 5.7 gig rig, that it did start working... maybe just something loose? As far as stuff non-LOS, worked KB7W, going down the West s
Trick is verifying this so as to prevent "cheating"... K3UHF wondered why we didn't deploy someone with a portable... then I realized that Multiops can work their own members on 2.3 and above... Shou
You are right about the Icom 706. Frontend "broad as a barn door!" My rover station has much filtering on those bands to greatly reduce interstation interference, which helps when at locations with l
Couldn't hurt on Tropo, airplanes, etc. either. Methinks that may be in the works... That 6-way, 4 wire bridge is just aching to get installed in the Bus to do something... Hmmm 5 radios and one DSP
Well, I would hope so... A couple teenage hams set the world WI-FI DX record using 10 foot dishes and "non-amplified" WI-FI gear, over 150 miles! Eric KB7DQH _________________________________________
The "Cold Shrink" is good for tool handle cushions, and that is about it. Have slipped some over some hydraulic hoses to prevent further damage to the hose exterior and they have held up well in that
Its the PF0011 power module. That thing had horrendous internal gain, and may need much additional bypassing of all the DC, shield can added, etc... I "stabilized" mine by loading the input with a wi
Hmmm... There is the rule that permits individual operators in a Multiop station to work each other on the bands 2304 AND ABOVE... provided that each operator uses "separate equipment"... "Stretched"
Unless you are looking for nanosecond accuracy, just use the beacon generator built into the rig!!!! Internal timing is excellent. Just watch whatever clock you got when starting the beacon... RTFM!!
Interesting... Wonder what the measured insertion loss of one of the TOKO filters is... Although physically much larger, there is a 4 section helical resonator assembly buried in UHF Motorola Motrac
The TE systems devices seem to do quite nicely. Only issue I have had with my 2252G (25W in, 225W out) has been a cold-solder joint or two on the relay control board... reflowed and amp like new agai
Hmmm.. Did you a favor I would guess. The JFET preamps in the "brownface" Mirage bricks were not all that splendid... Most did a really good job of masking the antenna/RF background noise with its ow
I agree with most of what has been said about the subject of this thread... And will Add: As an "experiment" one CQ WW VHF contest, I borrowed an APRS tracker and installed it in the rover... It didn
Pretty sure I could swing the 3.4-10 Ghz, I gotta look at the logs and "card pile"... There is at least one fella here in the CN87 area that got a VUCC on one of those bands because I worked him from
If the WX cooperates, tropo shots up the coast work nicely. I worked CN70 from CN77 some years ago during the CQ WW VHF test... Eric KB7DQH _______________________________________________ VHFcontesti