[VHFcontesting] Limited Roving - Worth the Effort?

[James Duffey]

Marshall - Good summary of rover techniques for he underpopulated.

It gets done pretty much the same way here. I operate in the stop and  
shoot mode, but am getting ready to run and gun. One thing that I have  
learned is that if there isn't too much activity at a stop it is best  
to pull up stakes and move. So if I haven't worked anyone in a half  
hour or so, I pull up stakes and move. And, even if the bands are  
open, I don't stay any longer than 2 hours or so. A rover needs to  
keep moving. A typical atop is an hour or an hour and a half.

Do you run stacked omnis on 6M? Isn't the stacking distance and  
spacing such that the lower one is too low and the upper one ie too  
high? I always thought that you wanted the lowest one on the stack to  
be a half wave above ground and that half or 5/8th wave spacing is  
best. This is doable on 2M, but pretty hard on 6M.

The reducton in angle of radiation is important. Troposcatter depends  
very strongly on the scatter angle, which the antenna angle of  
radiation contributes significantly to (as does the terrain and  
antenna height) and reducing the angle of radiaiton by stacking helps  
a lot.  I was surprised at how much the addition of a 160W linear to  
my 25Watt 2M transceiver helped.

Maybe we can work in some contest? - Duffey
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KK6MC
James Duffey
Cedar Crest NM