[TenTec] Time Sharing, etc

[Ron Zond]

Hi

I did this with a Scout in the late 90s.
How big a vehicle do you need to run an
Orion mobile?

Ron
K3MIY

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Kevin Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:45 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com; w3uls73 at gmail.com
Cc: k9iua at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Time Sharing, etc


John,
Do you still have an automobile?  I'm surprised that no one has mentioned
mobile operation in lieu of having a shack.  When I lived in North Dakota
for a year back in 2000-2001, I spent the equivalent of six months sitting
in my parked automobile everyday operating HF, as I didn't have an antenna
and shack initially set up at the rental house.  (Fortunately I managed to
get a temporary wire inverted vee made out of 300-ohm twinlead up before the
winter came with its cold, below 0 Fahrenheit temperatures.)  You can
imagine the stares I got after work and every evening from neighbors and
people driving by as I would sit in the car in the driveway or out front on
the street for hours on end with big, noticeable over-the-ear headphones on.
I was using hamstick antennas with a Ten-Tec Scout turned down to 5 watts
QRP.  Granted, it was the peak of the sunspot cycle, but it was radio and I
got on the air with it, including contests.  I operated both CW and SSB
 this way.  Not the best, but possibly better than trying to use an indoor
antenna at higher power.  At minimum, if your car is parked just outside a
window on ground level you can use it to mount the antenna that is operated
indoors.

Cheers/73,
Kevin, K9IUA




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