Shameless Promotion but interesting story: Two years ago in the Florida QSO Party, our local "Mad Scientist" and mobile operations God Chris, NX4N, decided to do something that had never been done before:
A Multi Multi mobile entry! In his Chevy Suburban, we had four radios: A K3 in the front seat (K0LUZ), a Pro2 (W4BP) and a K3 in the second row (K4KM) and me with a K3 in the third row. 20m, 40m, 15m and 10m in that order. Chris did all the driving. It was an all CW operation. Lots of filtering and coax stubs installed. Four separate antennas on the corners of the roof. Four separate computers. The KX3 was feeding a KPA500 in the back of the Suburban which turned it into a 100w radio. Power supplies and other sundries were installed in a bread rack in the back and secured by Bungie cords. Feeding power to all of this was a Honda 2kW generator with an external fuel tank mounted on a carrier attached to the trailer hitch. The generator was covered by a plastic tub held on to the hitch carrier with Bungie cords. This cover was for rain abatement. The cover was adorned with special vents on the side. Yes, crazy and a gray area of mobile legality, But all of us survived to tell the tale. And it was Great fun! And I remember working OM2VL at almost every single county line. It's the only time I have seen a KPA500 mobile. I have since bowed out of this glorious extreme mobile engineering achievement. But it continues with others to this day. And it will be on this coming weekend in the Florida QSO Party's 20th anniversary celebration. The call sign used by this intrepid crew is K4OJ (in honor of FCG Founder Jim White (SK)). Look for them this coming weekend! Lu - W4LT (W4I in the FQP - Spell "F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-U-N" with our 20 "letter multiplier" stations -2 for each letter - for a special certificate!) ______________________________________________________________ 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]
