[VHFcontesting] Any other rovers running MSK144

[Mark Spencer]

Hi.   Re roving rules one can (usually at least depending on the contest) enter as an un limited rover and be exempted from rule 3.5.3 

73
Mark S
VE7AFZ

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> On Jan 23, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Roger Rehr W3SZ <w3sz73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think you would really enjoy, be helped by running MSK144 at night.
> I have only 100 watts (at most) and a small yagi on 6 and have only been
> using MSK144 for a week, but
> after midnight Saturday in the early hours of Sunday with this pipsqueak
> station I was able to work on 6 with MSK144 from FN20ag:
> EN35
> EM45
> EM45 again
> EM31
> EN52
> EM48
> FN31
> FN43
> FN44
> EN80
> And during the same time period using various digital modes was able to
> complete with
> FN03 on 144,222,432,1296 and with
> FN25 and FN35 on 144.
> I had LL on 2, but only 90 watts on 222, 40 watts on 432, and 15 watts
> or less on 1296.
> 
> So I think your plan to use MSK 144 etc at night is a great one.  If you
> are a solo rover you could even have a "guest" op come in to do the MS
> stuff overnight while you sleep :)
> Unfortunately, if you are a 2 person rover you couldn't do that, but one
> of you could sleep while the other one had all the fun (and it is GREAT
> fun)  :)
> 
> If you do this, it would be best for you to make sure you set your cell
> phone up as a hotspot so that you can then use your laptop[s] to
> coordinate / advertise on PingJockey (which I used exclusively for this
> rather than going to ON4KST, etc).
> 
> The rover rules do not prohibit you from using commercial power.  They
> do prohibit you from using equipment (including power supplies) that you
> have stashed at a remote site.  This is to prevent rovers from
> essentially setting up "superstations" at a number of fixed locations
> which they then drive to and operate from while claiming rover status. 
> (2.5.3 of General rules for Contests above 50 MHz). 
> http://www.arrl.org/general-rules-for-arrl-contests-above-50-mhz
> "2.5.3. Rover vehicles must transport all the equipment, power supplies,
> and antennas used at each operating site".
> 
> So go to it and have fun!
> 
> 73,
> Roger Rehr
> W3SZ
> 
>> On 1/23/2017 5:15 PM, Sean Waite wrote:
>> Color me also interested. My big hangup at the moment is power. I don't
>> have 110VAC in the rover and even with an inverter, the laptop power draw
>> and the 100% duty cycle of these modes is going to suck batteries. One
>> thing we considered is possibly only running MSK144 at night once we're at
>> our sleeping destination, we can pick a campground or something with street
>> power. I'm not sure if this is legal under the rover rules, though.
>> 
>> Sean WA1TE
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:34 PM n12614--- via VHFcontesting <
>> vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:
> 
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