[ILQSO] Fw: Aeronautical Station

[Dennis Miller]

Tim, yes those are valid points, and that's why I posted the original message in the first place. The rules don't mention aeronautical stations, but perhaps it could be addressed to treat such as a regular mobile or otherwise. 

Irregardless, it would be fun just to do.

73 Dennis KM9O
GROL PG00045411
  Original Message  
From: Tim Childers K9CQ
Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2017 10:29 PM
To: Illinois QSO Party
Reply To: Illinois QSO Party
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] Fw: Aeronautical Station

I still don't think that you would count for any county in the state if your 
not on the ground in that county. That is the way most all of the contest 
score an aeronautical mobile.

If it were to happen, the sunspot cycle and propagation have nothing to do 
with it. You could take an HT up in a plane and work a few hundred miles on 
2 meters. It is all line of site direct so 2 or 10 would work fine. We use 
to work 2 meter aeronautical mobiles all the time from several hundred miles 
away. I still don't believe it would count for a county just a QSO point 
and I don't even see a category that you could place an aeronautical mobile 
in that would be fair to the other contesters on the score end.

Tim, K9CQ

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chuck via ILQSO
Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2017 7:56 PM
To: Illinois QSO Party
Cc: Chuck
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] Fw: Aeronautical Station

2 meters or 10 meters will be a big disappointment I think. Going to find 
very few available QSO's on a dead 10 meters ( remember, we are nearing 
bottom of the cycle).

If you can get 20 meters or preferably 40, it will be pretty neat! But, 2 
and 10 meters, might be a waste of time....

Sent from my iPad

> On Apr 2, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Dennis Miller via ILQSO 
> <ilqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
> We would be using GPS to to know what county we were in. Hopefully do 
> multiple loops around Lawrence County.
>
> We'll make a couple test flights prior to ILQP. Hoping we can do 40m, 
> settle with 10m. 146.55 possibly. APRS for tracking possibly. It all 
> depends on what we can put on a Cessina.
> 

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