[ILQSO] Mobile coordination

Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:33:41 -0700 (PDT)

I thought the ILQP was canceled because the
Cubbies were in the playoffs....?  :)

Just kidding.... i hope to be over my cold by
sunday or else i'm gonna stick to cw.

/steve n9oh

--- jim funk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]>
> To: IL QSO Party <[email protected]>
> 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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 Steve Woodruff, N9OH @ 42.18N 88.34W, [email protected]

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