[ILQSO] Mobile coordination

[Mel Crichton]

****N9JF wrote
I think the Indiana people tried an early-evening coordination of mobiles on
40 meter SSB.  Anybody know how it worked?  We could do this in IL, but in
only an eight-hour event, you sure don't want to spend much time shooting
the breeze instead of making contacts!  Maybe we mobiles can just do a "How
is your route going?"  check with each other along the way and make
adjustments if necessary.  I plan to have a  list of who is planning to be
where and when. If you work another mobile with whom you are sharing some
area, how about coordinating amongst yourselves if possible?  Comments?*****

As one of the Indiana mobiles down in the hills at 2200Z (our sked time for
40 SSB) I can tell you that this did not work.  Mobiles rarely hear each
other.... even with a central station doing QSP. Having the big coordinating
station in Indy was a mistake, being too far away to hear for ground wave
and not far enough for good prop on sky wave... a coordinating station at
least 200 miles away would probably have heard us better. If we can get a
volunteer (i.e. somebody wanting to work ALL the mobiles at once) sited in a
neigboring state, it might work.

The easiest station to hear was the aeromobile on 2 meters FM.

Otherwise, I would not mind having the cell numbers of mobiles near me, in
case I need somebody to cover a county. That is not a second op or multi
situation, because it creates no QSOs for me... It just provides more QSOs
for OTHERS

Mel, KJ9C