My first time HF mobile operation in 25 years!!

[Nan and Sandy Sanders]

You could run mobile satellite but it would cut the gas mileage too much.
                    Sandy



----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain McFadyen" <mcfadyenusa at yahoo.com>
To: <tacos at amrad.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: My first time HF mobile operation in 25 years!!


> I'm looking forward to my first HF mobile operation in over 20 years:
>
> I have just received confirmation that I shall be flying to Austin, TX on
> Sunday 11th, and leaving Texas on Sunday 18th, driving back to VA.
Possibly
> arriving back on Tuesday 20th (really depends when we leave TX on Sunday).
>
> I'll be in one of these: http://www.ecrv4703.org . Hope to have 500w SGC
HF
> linear running, with auto ATU and either a Kenwood TS-2000, or Icom 706.
(The
> Icom 706 is accessible from the passenger seat, the TS-2000 is only
accessible
> from the radio operator position in the back).
>
> I also wish that there was a method of overlaying the VHF/UHF repeater
> coverage prediction charts over the GPS moving map display... for the
whole
> route TX-VA! Otherwise I'm going to be going loopy fingering through the
ARRL
> repeater directory!
>
> Iain  KI4HLV
>
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