[ADXA] W5VY

[jayw5jay]

Hi Pat,I sure enjoy seeing pictures and articles from our movers and shakers within the adxa Club. Hopefully I can work you when you are roving but I am not equipped yet on VHF.   It is on the radar screen.I think Kathy and I met Andrea a few years back at the Austin 6m BBQ?By the way did you take your gear with you traveling around all those national parks? :-)73 jaySent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: Pat Patterson <patw5vy at gmail.com> Date: 8/19/19  11:53 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> Cc: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [ADXA] W5VY Thanks for the heads up Jay.  I hadn't opened the August issue yet.  My XYL, Sunnye, and I just got back from a 25 day road trip "Out West" to check out some National Parks/Monuments.  Nice of Tony, K8ZR, to share the gang of Rovers pic.  Dave, KQ8FL, had his 11 Band Rover on display.  It was really well done and if I remember correctly, he had about five radios and quite a few XVTRS/AMPS lashed together with cascaded manual band select switches!  He uses a PVC pipe roof rack to support yagis and loop yagis for 6M through 3456.  His tripod microwave rig has Downeast Microwave XVTRs for 5 and 10G and a DB6NT 24Ghz XVTR.    Andrea, K2EZ, lives in New Jersey but spends quite a bit of time in Southern Texas with her Job.  She tries to time her trips to Texas to coincide with VHF Contests and I'm pretty sure she holds the record for Grids activated during a test.  I've worked her several times as she transits the state on I40/I30.  She's manages four or five radios, is a great CW op, logs her Qs on a Surface Tablet Velcro'd to the center of the steering wheel....all while driving down the road.   She wrote her own logging app and it is very intuitive for rover operation.  She normally operates in the Limited (6m thru 70cm) category but has added microwave bands lately and roves around the Northeast as a Classic Rover. I'm still a new comer to VHF and up.  I made my first 6M QSO in 2012 and was hooked after a few 2M/70cm tropo openings. I gravitated to Roving due to antenna restrictions in my neighborhood in North Little Rock.  It has been a challenge to get things working on the higher bands (and keep them working).  It's a lot of fun to sit on Magazine and work guys in Austin, TX on 1296 or Georgia on 222.  Several of our members have given me lots of Qs during the contests.  Joel, W5ZN, is a big time VHF/UHF contester and makes a point to listen for Rovers.   I think he has VUCC on 6M through 24GHz.   I almost always bump in to Dennis, W5RZ, who works me on 6M thru 70cm.  Steve, N4JQQ, has a great VHF/UHF/Microwave station and gives me a shout when I'm in his territory.  George, WB5JJJ, has also jumped in and given me some Qs on 6, 2 and 432.  My buddy, Steve, AG4V, in Memphis is a very active Rover and we have made a bunch of Qs over the years. Before Rick, K5UR, became ARRL President he would pop-up from out of the blue to work me during the contests. Yes, he was loud! His weekends are now spent at Ham Radio Conventions all over the country!VHF and up is just another facet of a GREAT hobby!  Check it out.73,Pat, W5VY/ROn Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:53 PM Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:Good evening.   Nice picture of Pat W5VY in August CQ on page 83 under the VHF column.   73 de jay/w5jay..______________________________________________________________
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