Mark, I've operated 2 metre FM parachute mobile. Even with a lightly loaded 240 my mic picked up a lot of wind noise and made it difficult for other stations to understand me. I was using a speaker mic cupped in my hands to try to block the wind but still had some problems. I no longer own any big slow parachutes (I have a 135, a 120, and a 97) so I'm sure it would be a lot worse now. Something to think about if you haven't done this before...
It would take some coordination to get the timing right, but if I could get my hands on a DSTAR handheld (my only DSTAR radio at the moment is a 2820), we could make a parachute to parachute DSTAR contact - now *that* would be neat! Blue Skies, Brian CSPA D-661 - oh, and VE7NGR ;-) On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 18:32 +0000, boeing377 wrote: > > We will try again this Saturday Sept 5, 2009, likely jump window is > between noon and 2:30 PM California time. Will be aloft over Byron > CA. > > Will announce on K6MDD through two meter repeater about 30 minutes > prior to liftoff. Will make the world's first DSTAR parachute mobile > call to Tim K6BIV to thank him for K6MDD and then work the rest. I am > hoping for moderate winds on Saturday. Safety has to come first and if > winds are over our limits we will probably have to postpone again. > > We can take higher winds in a freefall jump but it leaves very little > time for comms. If I do a freefall from 13-14K I'll open around 3K and > try to get a few QSOs done, but I have to quickly focus on getting > back to the DZ, avoiding other canopies and setting up my landing > approach. > > 73, > Mark > AF6IM > > > > >
