Let's Get Real About Emergency Communications

[VA3KOT John]

Yes the club has 2 spectra radios set up on vhf with cavities, with a ringo ranger antenna and a feedline. Frank has this at his qth I think.  I have a pair of spectras also, and can program any pair. What I don't have is a set of cans. That means you would need two antennas and feedlines, one for receive and one for transmit at least 100 feet apart.

Years ago we made a pair of 1/4 wave verticals with a loop at the top. A small rope, slingshot them up in trees, then pull up the verticals. Try to get the receive antenna up a high as possible..... 73

Well this is good news. I think we need to do some field trials in the spring. I was involved in a similar exercise a few years back with Dufferin ARES. We mapped the RF penetration of the whole county, township by township. If an emergency arose we knew exactly where to place a repeater.