[FADCA] It was faster than it seemed!

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 20:05:05 -0800 (PST)

Great news. This kind of demonstration is what we need. The
integration of VHF, HF and Internet is the kind of
communications support I have been talking about. I will be
discussing this with Bud by phone.

Russ

On Sun, 31 March 2002, "bud Thompson" wrote

> 
> Deltona 
> Sunday March 31 1800EST
> 
> This morning we had 123% success with our pre-demo vhf/hf
demonstration for tomorrow's show at the Deltona EOC.  For
the HF WL2K/Airmail test I prepared a short note addressed
to the FADCA email group with cc: to John Fink, the contact
at the EOC who was working with us.  Six minutes after I
finished linking with WB5KSD near Dallas on 20M, John came
walking down the hall with a printed copy of the message.
> 
> I wondered what happened to the FADCA copy - then it
arrived just a few minutes ago here on my e-mail.  I realize
now that the input to the fadca mailman was not from my
normal e-mail but from [email protected] which is not
registered on fadca.  I was surprised that it came through
at all... bet Bill did it- Thanks, Bill.
> 
> The message was received by [email protected] at 10:58
EST- about four minutes after I finished the link with
WB5KSD.
> 
> We'll do it again tomorrow and include the Chief's e-mail!
> 
> The G5RV antenna at the EOC is only about 25 ft off the
pavement - and has 4:1 VSWR on 40 and not much better on 80.
 It is too high to use on 30, but great on 20m.  I'll be
meeting with the City later this week to discuss antennas at
the new EOC - we'll have a better HF wire then.
> That said, we worked WL2K stations in TX and IL between
1020 and 1050 EST.  Three others we tried were probably busy
on other frequencies.
> 
> 73,
> bud N0IA
> 
> 
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