[Fourlanders] Pack Roving

[Jim Worsham]

Yeah, N6NB has dropped some serious money into this.  Why?  You will need to
ask him.  Cost would depend on how much you can find surplus, at ham fest
flea markets, etc.  The question of microwave equipment available to rovers
is one I will need to take up with W4ZST.

 

73

Jim, W4KXY

 

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are.  If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Richard P. Feynman

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From: Bob Mantell [mailto:k4esa at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 6:36 PM
To: 'Tom McElroy'; wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
Cc: fourlanders at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Pack Roving

 


I am guessing it takes deep pockets to set up a pack of 10 band rovers? 

  

How much would it cost to put one of those tool box kits together, if you
already had an FT-857d ?  Did you notice they are using FM??

 

Is there any used surplus Microwave equipment available to rove with that is
getting dusty on anyones shelves during contests?  

73 de Bob,

 

 K4ESA EM74qc

 

Bob Mantell

k4esa at yahoo.com

 



--- On Sat, 9/19/09, Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:


From: Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Pack Roving
To: "'Tom McElroy'" <tommcelroy.mail at gmail.com>
Cc: fourlanders at contesting.com
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 10:02 PM

Yeah, I posted that with the hopes that it might encourage some folks to
consider doing the roving gig.  One of the biggest disincentives to W4NH
working the microwave bands in contests is the lack of rovers in our
geographic area.  If you go back several years we used to have several guys
who roved many of which had at least some microwave capability.  Now there
are none and it is becoming harder to justify putting the microwave bands on
the air to just work the 7 or 8 fixed stations that are available to us.
Anyone want to be a microwave rover?



73

Jim, W4KXY



It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are.  If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Richard P. Feynman

  _____  

From: Tom McElroy [mailto:tommcelroy.mail at gmail.com
<http://us.mc599.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tommcelroy.mail@gmail.com> ] 
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:11 AM
To: wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
<http://us.mc599.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wa4kxy@bellsouth.net> 
Cc: fourlanders at contesting.com
<http://us.mc599.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fourlanders@contesting.com> 
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Pack Roving



I really dig that.

Tom
KI4WOU

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
<http://us.mc599.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wa4kxy@bellsouth.net> > wrote:

Check this out:



www.packrovers.com <http://www.packrovers.com/>



73

Jim, W4KXY



It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are.  If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Richard P. Feynman



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