[MLB-WIRELESS] Mountain Radio Challenge

[Chris Bellmont]

>
> > > Dandy's the worst, because of proximity.
> >
> >
> > HELL YES
>
> :)
>
> > >
> > > 3 hours country drive a big difference to city drive. :)
> >
> > Hell Yes
>
> 3 hours in the country seems a LOT less hassle than 1 hour in the
> city.  :-)
> >
> > >
> > > > Generators are only about .....I think $65/day.
> > >
> > > Bit overkill for a laptop.  I could spend that or not much
> > more on an
> > > inverter for keeps! :-)
> >
> > Just for a lappy ...yes.........
>
> Yeah.  Sounds rather funny hehe
>
> >
> > We tend to hire a 3kva for the weekend and run the computer
> > gear plus 2 or
> > three radios and usually a foot warmer for good measure....oh
> > and flouro
> > lights and whatever other electrical equipment we can pack in the
> > cars.......,over.  :-)
>
> Hehe, we use a lightweight approach.  I'm very well setup for
> portable work
> anyway.  As a test, we actually "split" our station for a while
> and compared
> the carpark performance with spots I knew were the best.  I took a 27 MHz
> handheld, UHF, 12V  SLA, UHF Yagi and home made 27 MHz 1/2 wave
> mounted in a
> fibreglass telescopic squid pole.


Yeah I remember talking to you on the last MRC when you where using the
squid pole....
I was on Mt Fatigue.


>
> On 27 MHz, the two stations were roughly equivalent.  On UHF, the portable
> one ruled! :-)  As they say in real estate - location, location, location.
> :-)
>
> A lappy and inverter would make a nice addition and something to carry the
> lot in. :-)
>
> Portable operation - more specifically, lightweight portable operation,
> where the only access is by foot, is my speciality.  I hope to
> continue that
> tradition into 802.11b one of these MRCs :-)
>
>


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