[Fourlanders] Pack Roving

[Rogers, Ron]

Wayne used FM in his multi-band package because (1) a 2 meter FM rig used for the IF radio is the least expensive "foundation" radio you can find and, (2) the rovers in the pack are always within sight of each other, therefore they are always "full quieting" to each other. 

That way the microwave transverters don't need a lot of gain in the front end and can almost be of simple mixer stage design.

Wayne did not design this "rover package" for weak signal microwave DX record setting.


Ron 
WW8RR 


-----Original Message-----
From: fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob Mantell
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

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From: Tom McElroy [mailto:tommcelroy.mail at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 8:11 AM
To: wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
Cc: fourlanders at 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> 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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