[VHFcontesting] poll

[frank bechdoldt]

is that geosycronis? I know I spelled that wrong.....

even if the rover and portable cant be real time I imagine they would be in 
a differnt class than the home station.


>From: Frank Brickle <brickle at pobox.com>
>Reply-To: brickle at pobox.com
>To: frank bechdoldt <k3uhf at hotmail.com>
>CC: croseman at usc.edu, vhfcontesting at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] poll
>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:00:43 -0500
>
>frank bechdoldt wrote:
>
> > I like the real time scoring idea if there is a way for rovers and
> > portables to play along.
> >
> > I have also thought about passing messages along for points.
> >
> > Ie a messge starts in Las Vegas and should be sent to Phillidelphia.
> > Each call involved in the relay would be given points if it made it ok.
>
>AMSAT Eagle is being designed with a fairly powerful
>text-messaging facility to be accessible with a minimal ground
>station. That facility could probably be used for rover and
>portable scoring updates without much hassle at all. It would have
>the advantage of being reachable from anywhere in the bird's
>footprint, and it's a big footprint.
>
>73
>Frank
>AB2KT
>

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