Its much easier to get a useful ground plane in a car, in my experience. That said, i ran a 5w HT for 4,000 miles summer for APRS and found it worked mostly fine. Going to do it again on my bike next month.
-- Phil kj6pon On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:51 PM, K8JHR <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now I don't mean to sound critical, but is it somehow different for guys > on bikes than for guys in cars? We use 5 watt FRS/GMRS radios for our MINI > Cooper driving club, and we can easily have thirty or forty cars on a tour, > and have participated in groups as large as 400. If cars get out of range, > then we are either too spread out to be a group, or perhaps the group is > too large if the front and rear cars cannot connect, or we cannot relay > info. > > I suppose that is where knowing the route in advance plays a helpful part. > We don't kibitz at every turn; we pretty much know where we are going in > advance ... well... all except for "Wrong Way Joan" who gets lost no matter > what we do. > > Is it so different for bikes you need such a wide signal range? We do > multi state, multi day tours, so it it is not like we don't go anywhere, so > I am wondering why you need more range than what a 5 watt rig might provide. > > Again...not being critical, genuinely curious about this. Might learn > something to take back to our club! > > ------------------ K8JHR -------------------- > > > > > On 5/4/2014 4:16 PM, rgconner wrote: > > 5w is not enough if we get out of line of site. > > > > > 5w on 70cm works great 95% of the time, until we get canyons or lose > line of > > site. > > > ____________________________________________ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
