[VHFcontesting] Using limited gear

[Tree]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:40:19AM -0400, Buck Calabro wrote:
> > ...operate on frequencies (such as 908 MHz) that 
> > nobody else uses, which further impedes their 
> > capability to make QSOs with other stations.
> 
> This is a very interesting point because it directly bears on my
> situation.  I am using 10GHz Gunn (wide band) gear loaned to me.  As I
> understand it, the choice of IF is crucial to making contacts with
> other wide band gear.
> 
> Should I not take out the wide band stuff and not make those contacts
> even though there are a very few people I can talk to?  Sure I could
> buy narrow band gear off the shelf right now, but She Who Must Be
> Obeyed has a little something to say about that.  Especially since I
> have a pile of unfinished radio work still to do...
> 
> My choices are like me, simple.  I can go out with that loaner gear
> and talk to 2 or 3 stations (for sure) and thus use the band, make
> points, learn how to point and troubleshoot in the field, er, operate
> <grin> , or I can wait and buy/build a narrow band rig to talk to many
> more 10g stations.  If I wait, it'll be a couple of years at least
> before I get on the high bands again.
> 
> What is the benefit to me to wait?

I don't think you need to wait.  It is very easy to establish "non exclusive"
status as a rover on the other bands.  

Tree N6TR