Text 11425, 74 rader
Skriven 2005-04-13 01:54:16 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 11396 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
Ärende: Off to the Wilderness
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Sean Dennis -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 SD> *** Quoting Ed Hulett from a message to Sean Dennis ***

 EH>> That is an all-mode HF/VHF/UHF radio. It is made for mobile, not
 EH>> portable use.

 SD> Okay, I wasn't sure.  I know there was one that was to be used for
 SD> portable use.

 EH>> Unless Vern has a General or Extra class license, he can't use the HF
 EH>> feature of either radio. That is why I recommended the VX-5R HT.

 SD> Well, if he took the code test with his Tech, he could have Novice HF
 SD> privs, but I don't know if that would be satisfactory for that.

That would give him a small part of 10meters for phone and small parts of 10,
15, 40 and 80 meters for CW. Ten meters is ok some times, but propagation isn't
always good enough to get out of a deep valley in the Ozarks.

 EH>> Being up in the mountains, he could easily bring up most repeaters
 EH>> even up to 50 to 70 miles away. Around here, they call that "mountain
 EH>> topping" and it's a favorite passtime for some.

 SD> I've done that before with my little VX-150.  I just stick my "big"
 SD> antenna (it's a multiband transceiving antenna with a load in it) on it,
 SD> pop it up to 19.5" height and proceed to whack repeaters from all over
 SD> the place.  I go up on Kennesaw Mountain here and do it.  I try to do it
 SD> on low (340mW) power as often as I can.

I have both the VX-2R and the VX-5R and I am impressed how well the VX2 does
from inside my house talking to my friend driving around town.

The VX-2R has 1.5Watts with the internal battery. It's only about the size of a
large pack of gum too. :-)

 SD> But I can definitely agree with you on "mountain topping".  I bet if he
 SD> got the ARRL repeater directory, he'd find repeaters all along the
 SD> trail. <G>

Most likely. I can even send him a free directory. I got 6 of them when I
ordered a couple of their large books. I couldn't figure it out why until I
read that the 2005-2006 book was to come out. They must have decided to unload
the 2004-2005 directories by using them as packing material. :-)

 SD> Have you heard about the VX-7?  A few locals were talking about it on
 SD> the repeater here and evidently it's got enough bells and whistles to
 SD> kill someone. My parents both bought Kenwood tri-banders a few months
back.

I like my VX-5R, it was only $199 while the VX-7 is over $300.

 SD> On a seperate note, looks like I'll have to get a dual-band for the car
 SD> if I'm gonna get into ARES here.  The local chapter uses 440 a lot.  Oh
 SD> well, that's a long ways down the road.

Heh, I just bought 2 Icom IC-208H dual band mobiles. One for my car and one for
the HAM shack. I got the cloning software to make setting frequncies a snap.

 SD> On one more note, I pleasantly discovered that where we're planning to
 SD> move (Douglasville, about 45 miles south of here), I can hit the
 SD> repeater up here with 10 watts, even with my lil' bitty antenna on my
 SD> car.  I have a Diamond 5/8 wavelength 2 meter whip that I could put on
 SD> the car, but I'm afraid that I'd never be able to get it in the garage.
<G>

LOL in the latest "Logger's Bark" (the newsletter for the Radio CLub of Tacoma)
they had a little single pane comic that showed a house with an attached
carport. The car sitting in the carport had a huge HF antenna sticking up off
the bumper. The roof of the carport was cut out around the antenna. :-)

Ed

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