[nrv-hams] MOM notes

[Russ Abbey]

Phil, as the PIO for Floyd, it just hit me about your interesting interface
with the rescue squad from Craig County.  That would make a very good
article for the paper and for QST!  I would gladly take the rains and run
on this if you want, but will need a lot more on MOM and the interface with
Craig.

73
Russ Abbey
KG4MAV

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Phil Foster <philfoster at verizon.net> wrote:

> Danny, first let me say that it was fun doing MOM again thisyear and I
> look forward to next years event.
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> The equipment I used this year was the same as last year. Itincludes:
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> Icom dual band mobile radio – 55w with mag mount antenna
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> Icom dual band, dual receive HT – 6w with extended rubberduck antenna.
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> Report for Rest Stop 1
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> I had a good copy from net control on the Covingtonrepeater, although
> there was some background noise. There was also backgroundnoise from Jim
> N6QDO when he was west of my location. I had an excellent copyfrom RS 2, RS
> 3, Chapel and Jim when he was on the eastern portion of thecourse. I had no
> copy from anyone else at RS 1.
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> One interesting note is that we relayed some traffic forCraig Co.
> regarding one of their rescue squad vehicles that had broken down.
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> Report for Rest Stop 5
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> After playing musical chairs with some cars, I was able topark in my usual
> spot. My intention was to use the mobile radio for simplexoperation with
> net control and use the HT to monitor the Covington repeater.After finding
> out that I had no copy with net control on simplex (poor copywith squelch
> off), I changed the mobile radio to the Covington frequency andmonitored
> the simplex frequency with the HT. I could hear Pete and Rogersimplex on
> the HT (Roger was intermittent which I believe was due to adjacentcars
> blocking the signal). We had excellent copy simplex last year.Communication
> with net control was still rough even on the repeater. It wasjust not as
> good as last year. I’m not sure why but I’ll try to better my setupnext
> year. Maybe a mast and beam for simplex.
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> 73,
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> Phil – AJ4HJ
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