[Wswss] Fwd: [wsjtgroup] Decommissioning two 8 band rovers....

[Lance Collister, W7GJ]

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Subject: 	[wsjtgroup] Decommissioning two 8 band rovers....
Date: 	Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:12:48 -0500
From: 	Marshall-K5QE <k5qe at k5qe.com>
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Hello everyone interested in VHF/UHF roving.  I have decided to decommission two of 
my 8 band rovers.  This means that I will have a lot of "stuff" available for those 
that might be interested.  I don't have a complete list of all the transverters, 
amps, preamps, relays, and other stuff at this time, but I will try to get that soon.

I want to start by offering for sale one of my TV vans that we used for two of the 
K5N grid DXpeditions.  This is a TV van with the 40ft Wil-Burt pneumatic mast, the 
air compressor for the mast, and a 6KW Onan generator.  The van is a Ford F350 with 
the big gasoline engine.  Mileage is high, as you might expect, because the TV 
station did not let these go until they were "well used".  We put this vehicle into 
the shop and "cleaned up, fixed up, and painted up" anything that needed repair.  The 
van runs very well and the Onan does too.  Currently, the Onan is 110VAC only, but 
can be rewired to be 240VAC if you wish.  Any competent Onan shop can do this for you 
or you can try it yourself.  In any case, there is plenty of power there.

I put new oversize Michelin truck tires on the van in 2010 and those tires have only 
had about 5K miles on them since new(the two DXpeditions below).  We have cleaned all 
the TV station "junk" out of the van and built a small operating table into the cabin 
behind the two front captain's chairs.  The cabin has 3 19" rack panels and a power 
distribution panel.  You can put a TON of really good gear into the racks.  What 
comes to mind are 4 rack panel Lunar-Link amps for 6M thru 432.  That would be a 
killer rover / portable station!!  We have put two Type N bulkhead feedthroughs in 
the roof where the old TV microwave cables entered.  There is also a 2M FM cable that 
runs to an NMO mount and 2M FM vertical on the top of the truck.  I will let the 2M 
FM antenna go with the truck(I want everyone to know how big a sacrifice that is....HI).

On the Grid Bandits web pages(created and maintained by JD-N0IRS), there are numerous 
pictures of the first K5N DXpedition trying to get to DL88.  We could not get there, 
because the road in the Big Bend National park was washed out in 3 places, so we did 
DL79 and DL89....but anyway follow this link== 
http://kcvhfgridbandits.com/kc_vhf_grid_bandits_042.htm. Then on the left hand side, 
click on K5N DL79/89 2010 purple button.  When that page loads, there is a bright 
yellow strip on the right with picture albums.  The TV van is in many of those pictures.

In 2011, we took the TV van on the Great Winter DXpedition of 2011 to the DL99/DM90 
grid line.  If you click the blue button on the left, you will see the web pages for 
that expedition. Again, on the right is a bright yellow strip with three photo albums 
of pics from that DXpedition.  There are several pictures of the van, now sporting a 
2 x 6M5X antenna with full AZ / EL(you DON'T get that).  There are good pictures 
there of the inside of the van and the operating table.

Bill-N5YA milled out a special rotor fitting that mounts on the top of the mast.  
That will allow you to mount a Ham 4 or TailTwister rotor.  I think that he also 
drilled it for the M2 Orion 2800 rotor, but I am not sure about that.  The special 
rotor mount goes with the van.  It would cost you a lot of $$ to get this made at 
some local shop.  You can see that in some of the pictures.

A club or a rover group could make a serious rover out of this TV van.  We have 
proved here that elevating the antennas 40ft, makes a HUGE difference in the number 
of QSOs made--especially on the higher microwave bands.  With the pneumatic mast, you 
would just arrive at a new grid, pump up the mast, run your scheds, lower the 
mast(try to remember this part), and drive to the next grid.  Total setup time would 
be a minute or two to pump up the mast.  This is the ultimate in rover vehicles.

Now, what is the bad news??  I want $2500 for the TV van, with mast, air pump, and 
Onan.  I am willing to make arrangements to deliver the van.  If you want to come 
over here and check the unit out, that will be fine too.  We can put you up here at 
the K5QE contest station or the N5YA contest station and save the motel bills.  If 
you want to talk about this van, please call me and we can "cuss and discuss" it.

73 Marshall K5QE
Phone is 409-787-3830



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