[VHFcontesting] internet contest

[Zack Widup]

I imagine you'd have to prearrange with others who have a similar setup.

I haven't used anything except the weak-signal modes and subbands for any 
band other than 2 meters in a contest.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Christopher Burke wrote:

>
> Well, this is probably the cheapest way to get on 2.4 GHz like getting a FM
> rig is the cheapest way to get on 222.  It's not popular for contesting, and
> there's a lot of "noise" out there in the form of part 15 stations, but it's
> easy enough to give it a go.  We have a guy in our club that's into
> "wardriving" and his mobile setup consists of a Linksys router and his
> laptop.  If you're roving and you've got a laptop already, it's like $70 for
> the router.  Sticking that bad boy up on a pole with a dish or a beam would
> set you back a little more, but not much.  The hard part would be finding
> stations to work.  You'd need a setup with Kismet or NetStumbler and you'd
> have to look for SSIDs that were callsigns.  It's easy to get that far, but
> I don't know enough about it to know if there's a generally accepted way to
> have a QSO, though.
>
> Hey, it's unconventional, but it's potentially a cheap way to get points and
> possibly another multiplier and it's certainly no sillier than the laser
> transceivers that are out there.  There's not that much range and only like
> 300 mW transmit power, so you'd have to know about another station in
> advance, but then again it's awfully hard to find stations by just calling
> CQ on 10 GHz.
>
> 73!
> Chris N9YH
>