[MAMS] Central States VHF conference

[Zack Widup]

Thanks for the tips on driving. I've never been to Cedar Rapids
before. I heard some talk about the bicycle race but didn't know the
details.

I had my 10 GHz antenna tested at the conference in St. Louis a couple
years ago but I'm curious about my 24 GHz antenna and the little Yagi
I use for portable operation on 144 MHz. I don't know if I'll bother
with any preamps for testing. I'm curious about the WD5AGO/W5LUA
preamp I have been using on 902 MHz but I have to tear the transverter
all apart to get it out of the transverter. I might bring my rather
ugly but functional 24 GHz transverter for the homebrew display.

73, Zack W9SZ


On 7/22/12, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson <geraldj at weather.net> wrote:
> I'm going. I'm on the program Saturday morning, with 6 papers, some very
> short. With RAGBRAI arriving in town Thursday evening its going to be a
> traffic madhouse, some 15,000 bicycles and many support vehicles. They
> will be coming in from the west on county roads for the bicycles and
> likely US30 mostly for the support vehicles. That makes using I-380
> probably the best access to the conference hotel which is 2 blocks from
> exit 17. Friday morning the mob leaves going east on a county road. I
> expect a fraction of the bicycle mob will wander off on other roads just
> to be different from the planned route, that I found in a file titled
> "CR-Ragbrai-Route-Map.pdf" on the official Cedar Rapids Ragbrai web
> page. Be careful about speed on I-380, the city is raking in lots of
> cash from automated speed cameras along that road.
>
> One of the on-line directions programs says I'm 130 miles by US20 and
> I-380 and US-20 is ten miles north of here so it should be 110 miles by
> IA 175 and county roads and a bit of I-380. I plan on an early Friday
> morning start. Antennas I'll bring and probably on the 10 G transverter
> for NF testing, won't have the rover assembled or along.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
> On 7/22/2012 3:34 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
>> Who's going? I will be leaving right around noon on Thursday for the 4
>> 1/2 hour drive from here. I have a room booked at the Clarion Inn and
>> I'm all set. I might take along a couple antennas for testing and I'm
>> going to take my portable microwave setup for the Dish Bowl on Friday
>> morning.
>>
>> 73, Zack W9SZ
>>
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