[VHFcontesting] indoor antennas on 50 MHz

[John Geiger]

And if you see the building going mobile on APRS, you
know you are really in trouble.  

73s John W5TD


--- Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Yeah, this makes me remember the time that I was at
> a local radio club
> meeting.  This guy rushes in with a laptop during
> the meeting and starts
> telling everyone how they just installed APRS at the
> local Red Cross
> building and how you can see the location of the
> building on a map on the
> internet.  You should have seen how everyone ohed
> and ahed.  These are the
> same guys that when I gave a presentation a few
> months earlier on VHF+ weak
> signal acted like they could have cared less.  I
> left the meeting and never
> went to another.
> 
> 73
> Jim, W4KXY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Dan_K9ZF
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:06 PM
> To: John Geiger; VHF Contesting eMail Remailer
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] indoor antennas on 50
> MHz
> 
> Hi John,
> I've always wondered that about APRS.  I was pretty
> heavy into packet back
> in the 90's, but when Internet e-mail became popular
> everyone kind of lost
> interest in packet.  I considered getting into APRS
> some years ago.
> Computers have always been a hobby of mine as well,
> so it only seems natural
> to combine the two...
> 
> So if I put all that time, effort, and money, into
> APRS and get a station on
> the air, then what?  Yep, like watching paint dry. 
> That's not for me.
> 
> The most interesting thing I've seen related to APRS
> is W2EV's HamIM.  
> Now that has potential to be interesting.
> 
> Anyway, the point I was trying to make with my post
> is it's hard to get new
> people interested if they turn on the rig and never
> hear anyone.  
> And around here, and I'm sure you can relate to this
> as well, unless it's a
> contest weekend chances are you aren't going to hear
> anyone.  
> Yeah, you can make contacts if you get on and call
> enough but they are few
> and far between.  Compromise antennas will make it
> even more difficult, and
> new people are more likely to listen than to call
> CQ.  
> And heaven forbid they should accidentally call CQ
> in the wrong part of the
> band!...
> 
> Combine that with most of the folks around here are
> "contest haters" and
> it's difficult to get new people started.  I hope
> someday I will be able to
> put together a decent home station so I can invite
> people over to contest
> with me...
> 
> Loops and dipoles have their place.  I have used
> them many times while
> Roving.  But I wouldn't recommend them to new people
> unless they had no
> other choice.
> 
> 73
> Dan
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> 
> John Geiger wrote:
> >>> I think the many hours of white noise between
> >>>       
> >> QSO's keeps a lot of the
> >>     
> >>> new hams away from weak signal stuff.  
> >>>       
> >
> > I used to believe that myself, but when I look at
> how popular APRS has 
> > become in my area (at least) I had to change my
> mind.  Watching a 
> > bunch of locals drive around down on the computer
> screen has to be 
> > slightly slower than watching the paint dry.  So
> boredom can be 
> > addictive.
> >
> > 73s John W5TD
> >
> >
> >   
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