[VHFcontesting] Ready for January VHF SS?

[Hoffman, Mark]

Those videos are the brainchild of W2EV, who's been documenting all sorts of
neat-o VHF+ activity in the Rochester area for the past number of years. The
N2WK M/M video was old stuff, shot in 1995 - the year we won June from
Wayne's house. The N2JMH/R is much more recent vintage footage.

The N2WK M/M is gone now, but the video shows just what goes in to a
successful M/M environment. Bodies, metal and electronics galore. What was
NOT shown, was the party afterwards - which I think is the ENTIRE reason we
do what we do. Even if we were LAST place, it wouldn't have mattered. What
was important was the cameraderie, challenge of getting all that junk
working, and actually making it play the way we wanted.

If that's evident from the video - then Ev's job is done!

I think they rock! 

Mark, K2AXX

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth E. Harker [mailto:kharker at cs.utexas.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:27 AM
To: VHF Contesting
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Ready for January VHF SS?


On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:16:57AM -0500, Hoffman, Mark wrote:
> Those were the internal PBX station to station intercoms. 

Ah, I guess intercoms would make sense - although in the many multiops 
I've done, I've never seen intercoms used like that.

> I'll betcha there's a telephone in EVERY bloody shack in America, too.

Perhaps, but you never see them right next to the keyboard and radios 
during a contest, and having telephones as part of a setup in a trailer 
in the yard seemed odd to me, too.  Naturally, one can look at that and be 
suspicious about their use for making skeds during the contest with other 
stations.  I know this used to happen all the time in the northeast before
people began to realize that the telephone should not be a part of radio
contesting.

I think the videos were great, though.  I can easily imagine certain 
local guys making their own videos like that someday, too :-)  Maybe
without the snow, though...

> Next thing, It'll be questioning the HF radio as the IF. They CAN be used
on
> HF for bad things during a VHF contest, right?
> 
> Mark, K2AXX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth E. Harker [mailto:kharker at cs.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:49 PM
> To: Ev Tupis (W2EV)
> Cc: VHF Contesting eMail Remailer
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Ready for January VHF SS?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:18:34PM -0500, Ev Tupis (W2EV) wrote:
> > If not...maybe this will help:
> > http://VHFGroup.RochesterNY.org | Downloads
> > Broadband users should try the "Medium" bandwidth version.
> > Dial-up users should try the "Low" bandwidth version.
> > 
> > This is streaming video of the "N2JMH psycho rover" from last January
and
> the
> > "N2WK megamultiop" from several years ago in June.  Be sure to have the
> volume
> > on your PC speakers turned UP. :))
> 
> Very intersting.
> 
> There seems to be a telephone next to every keyboard at the N2WK multi.
> Even the stations set up in trailers in the yard have telephones.  I'm 
> sure those phones weren't actually used in the contest, right? :-)
> 
> -- 
>
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Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker at cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences          Central Texas DX & Contest Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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