[VHFcontesting] internet contest

[Joe Serocki]

This is where a Rover Flight Plan shines. If people know where you will be,
and when, they can look for it. Calculations state that a workstation with a
standard antenna should be able to work this from a mile or more away if
there is no interference. Picking a channel from 1-6 puts this in the ham
bands.

Now, just imagine line of site with two of these!


On 1/24/08, Zack Widup <w9sz at prairienet.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> >
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