[Elecraft] Could this operate on a motorcycle?

[Phil Genera]

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 <jrichards at k8jhr.com> 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.
> >
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