[VHFcontesting] Emailing updates during portable operations

[Mark Spencer]

A few comments:

My track record making contacts from rare grids with no prior notice by calling CQ on 50.125 for example has been very poor.   A system that allowed me to notify interested amateurs when I happen to be in a rare grid (without Internet access) would be useful.   It would make these trips more fun for me.  I don't believe there are enough people listening to calling frequencies and continually circling their beams listening for weak signals to make random cq's very productive outside of sporadic E or F skip or similar openings on six meters.

Even if I do give prior notice of a visit to a rare grid it would be nice to be able to confirm that I am actually on the air.  More contacts would make the trips more fun for me.

I am willing to make a reasonable effort to at least get the ability to send short  emails from the back country but the bulk of the internet based systems that "like minded" amateurs seem to be using these days to coordinate VHF and up contacts appear to cater to users that have broad band Internet connectivity which makes them limited use for me at times.   That being said I am grateful for these systems and use them when I can.

73

Mark S

VE7AFZ


mark at alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099

> On May 2, 2017, at 9:10 AM, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Mark Spencer <mark at alignedsolutions.com> wrote:
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>> During one my grid expeditions last summer when I announced I wouldn't have Internet access I received emails after the fact asking why I wasn't using ping jockey so I believe there is a perceived need for this type of system but I realize the effort may be non trivial and the user base would be small.
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> So, reading between the lines here, it's no longer enough that people
> hearing the DX/rare grid/whatever post to a cluster, now it's up to
> that DX/rare grid/whatever station to personally notify The Deserving
> that they are on the air?
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> Um.  Yeah.
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