Sounds like you had fun. Obviously your not driving a Chev S10 4 cyl with a dinky alternator like I am. If I talk on my D700, the trucks slows!
But the Flex5Ka performed well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Army Curtis - AE5P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'FireBrick'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:06 AM Subject: RE: [Flexradio] vhf contest Hi Bill, Good to see your note. My wife and I once again went out in our "Flex Rover" to operate the VHF contest. Conditions were terrible! We operate 8 bands (50 - 3456 MHz) from a pickup truck, using an SDR-1000 as the IF and transverters (Elecraft and DEMI) for all bands. All bands have amplifiers, and except for 6M, all bands have gain antennas on a big PVC pipe rack on the back of the truck. We traveled over 600 miles to hit 4 grids on Saturday, and 5 grids on Sunday. We normally will go further into Arkansas to pick up 2 more grids, but conditions were so bad we stopped at Texarkana and headed back south. The PowerSDR software almost makes such a waste of time endurable ;o)) Without the bandscope, I wouldn't dream of trying it. While we try and operate all of the VHF contests to support our friend K5QE near here, I certainly prefer HF contests where you can find more contacts. Not all of the VHF contests are this slow however. We have worked some of them in the past couple of years where conditions were much better, and we managed a couple hundred Q's from the mobile. But it's still nowhere close to an HF test. Have fun. I always enjoy seeing your posts. 73, Army - AE5P -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FireBrick Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio List Subject: [Flexradio] vhf contest 45 years of playing in tests, and this was first ever vhf. trully painful, and BORING! But first attempt with the new Flex5000a without the Flex panadaptor, I would have quit, but the panadaptor showed any signals and allowed quick, no knob qsying. Thank god for the MFJ DVK! Hours of cqing, and tuning and hearing the same few people. Not much of an antenna here, just the 6 meter elements on the Sommer Yagi. Old Wilson rotatable, and 0 degree cold really slowed it's rotor. Only 6 grids, I might have made more q's yelling out the window. 36 qsos, 6 grids 218 points. Don't think it will help SMC totals much. But like the Packer Backers said... "Wait till next year!" "XYL's family's farm was in site of Lambeau" :-((( _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1234 - Release Date: 1/20/2008 2:15 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1234 - Release Date: 1/20/2008 2:15 PM _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
