[Rover] Laser operation during roving

[K0MHC]

Rick, thanks very much for the response. It's good to know that someone's doing
laser roving even if the pay back in marginal.
We'll take your advice into consideration for our January rove.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

73, Jim, K0MHC
"HAVE YOU FED A ROVER TODAY?"

Rick R wrote:
> 
> A tripod set-up, or something similar to hold the laser transmit steady and
> be able to adjust it is essential. The receive section should also be
> separately adjustable to move the capture sensor to where the incoming laser
> beam is best received. Here in the denser ham area of the radio club, where
> many ops have laser capability, the rovers with laser preschedule a laser
> contact route, and use some odd-ball FM freq for coordination, so as not to
> tie up the regular activity freqs. Depending what ur set-up is, you may want
> to mount this so you "open the door" for QSO.
> It's also nice to be able to meet up with other rovers and QSO with them on
> laser--especially when in those more remote grids.
> Remember that no internet or telephone use during contest to arrange scheds
> is allowed. Also, equipment must be capable of 1 Km QSO, but the actual
> distance covered by any QSO does not need to meet a minimum distance.
> Best to evaluate laser capability in your local and rove area. It took us
> about 4  hrs to cover a route to hit 5 stops last year, just for laser QSOs.
> You'll have to do the point multiplication math to see the "value,"
> depending on whether your other QSO point and grid mults make it worthwhile.
> Gas is cheap this year---as G3PHO said at MUD 2000, "when we rove, we often
> have to gauge the gas price per QSO in the UK."
> Good Luck, and I'd like folks to share their laser experiences, so that I
> might use them for an article in CheeseBits (The Packrat radio news.)
> Rick, K1DS
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