2023-01-28, 10:25:49
I'm glad the QRZ article is provoking lots of discussion.
John listed some good ideas. Building on those:
1. Antennas: build a 2m ground plane with copper wire & SO-239. It can be done inside. Figure out how long to make the elements, assemble the ant., use an analyzer to trim it for resonance for OSR, take it outside with a HH and make a repeater contact.
3. Operating: how about an Echolink demo? I bet some of the members have not used Echolink. We can do that inside, with a laptop & the venue's WIFI, or maybe they would let us run temporary coax to an outside ant. and use OSR's Echolink.
Either of these could also be demos to our indigenous hosts if they're interested.
73
Dave, VE3WI
John listed some good ideas. Building on those:
1. Antennas: build a 2m ground plane with copper wire & SO-239. It can be done inside. Figure out how long to make the elements, assemble the ant., use an analyzer to trim it for resonance for OSR, take it outside with a HH and make a repeater contact.
3. Operating: how about an Echolink demo? I bet some of the members have not used Echolink. We can do that inside, with a laptop & the venue's WIFI, or maybe they would let us run temporary coax to an outside ant. and use OSR's Echolink.
Either of these could also be demos to our indigenous hosts if they're interested.
73
Dave, VE3WI