[FQP]Mobile Window

[Jim Smith]

I liked it.  I knew where to look for the mobiles.  Heard the odd fixed 
station near the top end of the window but it wasn't really a problem. 

I expected to find fixed stations just outside the top end of the 
window.  I found a few were quite a bit higher.  Perhaps there were 
others in between that I just couldn't hear.

Unfortunately for us, for a good chunk of time the mobiles were few and 
far between.  VA7IRL, one of the other ops here, went to the trouble of 
printing a C size map of Fla for me.  I taped it to a large draughting 
board, taped a plastic overlay over it and marked all the routes on it 
with O/H transparency pens, green for cw, blue for ssb and red for 
mixed.  (Wife and daughter both thought I was nuts.)  However, the 
mobiles were so spotty that we couldn't really use it to plot their 
progress.

Not all routes were plotted as some mobiles listed their itinerary in 
alphabetic order.  I didn't have time to figure out their chronologic order.

We had a good time and accomplished some things we wanted to try.  I 
hope to have a writeup on 3830 in a week or so.  Going flat out trying 
to organize Field Day using Incident Command System.

OJ de Jim   VE7FO

Ron Wetjen wrote:

> Now that the FQP has come and gone ...
>
> what are folks' impression of the "Mobile Window"?  Did it seem to 
> help?  I know when looking for a run frequency, several "pileups" were 
> heard in the "window"!
>
> 40 Meters was a different story.  With a digital contest going on 
> above 7.035, seemed like everyone was mixed in below 7.035!
>
> 73, Ron
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