[UK-CONTEST] Field Day - was N1MM and IPv6

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To be honest, I usually use the cluster during the SSB FD contest, and 
connect to it over a VHF link. Having a link with higher bandwidth 
capability will certainly enhance things, and in fact enable some other 
possibilities.

I can see the challenges of getting a Microwave link working over a few 
Km. Pondering the rules further,and as Robert's email puts things, I'll 
try a 3G link this time around, although the back up will be a 144MHz 
connection.

Anyhow, this year will probably be the last Restricted SSB FD entry from 
me for a few years, I think I might have a go in the Open section next 
year. Mainly for the challenge of a solo entry.

73

Adrian MW1LCR / GW9X


On 21/08/2012 21:29, Robert Chipperfield wrote:
> On 21/08/2012 21:19, Paul O'Kane wrote:
>> What is the point of setting up an amateur
>> radio station in a field and then connecting to
>> the internet?
>
> Because it's quite good fun, really!
>
> If you find it more fun not to use the cluster at your station, by all
> means, don't.
>
> I quite enjoy the challenge of getting our 2.4GHz link working over a
> path a few miles long, much as I like the challenge of getting the
> generators to behave themselves. Judging by the photos I seem to recall
> seeing in the past of some 5.8GHz links strapped to climbing frames from
> another contest station (sadly I forget whose), I'm not alone.
>
> Field day is a challenge - to be sure, one different than most contests,
> but basically just that. Given a set of rules, the goal is to maximise
> your points within those rules. Currently, the rules allow for cluster
> use, and that adds the challenge of getting Internet access to a field
> in the middle of nowhere if you want to take advantage of it.
>
> 73,
> Rob, M0VFC
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