[VHFcontesting] Any other rovers running MSK144

[Sean Waite]

Thanks for the pointers, everyone. To avoid hijacking Mark's thread
further, I'm also interested in how to send Rover in wsjt-x

Sean

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 19:03 Mark Spencer <mark at alignedsolutions.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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