[ILQSO] Mobile coordination

[jim funk]

That seems to be the general consensus.  It doesn't work very well and would
probably be a source of irritation rather than accomplishing anything.  My
cell number is headed your way in a separate e-mail. 73, Jim N9JF
----- Original Message -----
From: Mel Crichton <kj9c@iquest.net>
To: IL QSO Party <ilqso@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:08 AM
Subject: [ILQSO] Mobile coordination


>
> ****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
>
>
>
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