[Laser] Field Day 2004

[Phil Lefever]

At 08:04 PM 1/7/2004, you wrote:
>Our amateur radio club is starting to plan for Field Day 2004, and I am
>planning to set up a laser communications station (it is worth a voice=20
>contact, a
>CW contact, and a digital contact, plus a 100 point bonus if we use a
>non-traditional mode (like pulse width modulation).

I'm not sure that PWM by itself will qualify you for a "non traditional=
 mode".
When I queried the ARRL contest division a year or so ago they replied that
it could only be a mode of contact that didn't fit under the "normal"
categories (phone, CW or Digital). SSTV over the LASER would be cool and
count though!

>If anybody knows, does MCW count as CW or Digital under the field day=
 rules.

If you are sending Morse Code it would be classified as CW. PSK31 or RTTY
would work well as digital modes. Even standard AX.25 Packet could be done!

73

Phil

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Phil Lefever    KB=D8NES                          Twin Cities Repeater Club
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