[VHFcontesting] Rover for June VHF

[Detrick Merz]

Howdy Folks,

A few of us are planning to try June VHF as rovers. Never done VHF
contesting before, and obviously not rover. But it sounds like fun so we're
going to give it a go. Planning on 6m, 2m, & 70cm. Omnis in the bed of the
truck, some yagis for stop-and-shoot. If you care, we're planning two
rovers (two trucks), 2 ops in each, running limited class. I'm sure we'll
cause all kinds of problems for each other doing it this way, but we'll
learn a lot too. And camping is more fun with friends.

Yesterday I finished up the base for securing a mast into the truck bed.
The mast tubing recesses into this base and gets guy lines from near the
top to 4 existing anchor points in the bed.

The question of the day is: how tall is too tall for going down the road?
The truck bed is 3' off the ground, and the tubing as it is is 10'. Is 13'
too tall, should I cut the tubing down to 8'? Should be no problem on major
roads, but I'm wondering about tree strikes on smaller roads.

Thanks for any insight,

-detrick
K4IZ