In an effort to promote VHF contesting, the use of simplex for emergencies, and provide a fun activity, I'm planning to encourage Alabama ARES to conduct a "Simplex Test" on June 13th, sometime late
This is an outstnading idea. Give people a reason to get off the repeater and see what that radio can do, repeaters may not all ways be operational. Great Idea, now that is thinking out side the box
http://ka5cvh.com/radio/vhf/contest.htm However our ARES unit http://harriscountyares.org/ is planning for a Saturday only ARES emergency communications event. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com
Mike adds I meant to say "on Field Day" ... we are going to have a few of our served agencies play along with us. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com http://twitter.com/KA5CVH There is only one c
Cool! I would go with 146.55 or 146.49 for 2m. 146.52 is, of course, off limits in contesting... 223.5 and 446.0 73 Dan -- Amateur Radio Emergency Service, Clark County Indiana. EM78el K9ZF /R no bud
Les, I wish you well with the AL ARES VHF simplex test. I hope it opens up some eyes and gets you some new contesters and/or weak-signal ops. I just made a thorough post to my VHF/UHF blog today abou
And, although not many will have it, 1294.5 MHz. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contes