[CTSARA] Comms Test Help Needed Week of 6/13

[Jon Perelstein]

I need one or two people to run a communication test up to Lake Waramaug.

A consortium of clubs is thinking about providing support to the CT
Challenge bike ride at the end of July.  The ride starts in Westport and
goes all the way up past Danbury to Lake Waramaug.  It mostly stays off of
Rt. 7 the entire way.  The question is how to provide coverage on a route
that long.   One thought is the Danbury area repeaters linked in via
Echolink to Norwalk -- and maybe something else (not sure yet).

I need someone to help me test repeater access along the route (see which
repeaters we can hit and where the dead spots would be).  I was thinking of
driving the route some time next week (the week of June 13).  I thought that
mid-day on a weekday would be better than on a weekend.

Anybody want to ride shotgun and do the transmitting?  We can use my car (a
Prius) and I have a 50 watt radio with a 1/2 wave antenna.

73s
Jon
WB2RYV

P.S.  If anybody has any suggestions for how we could cover it, please speak
up.