[ILQSO] Mobile coordination

Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:06:52 -0700 (PDT)

Oops, i'm a week ahead of myself.  But i'm still
confident that the cubbies will still be in
action on the 19th.  :)

/steve n9oh

--- Steve Woodruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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