Awesome info Mtn Man.
I'm building the coverage map now, I'm using a 5mi max radius for HT, 10mi for Mobile, and a 25mi repeater coverage. This won't be perfect, but will give us a general idea of what we should be able to do.
The Engineer Mtn repeater should give us coverage of almost all the runs.
Ham Question: Didn't the FCC lower the qualifications for 10 meter? Will there be any support for those frequencies (unless the repeaters listed above cover 10 meter; pardon my Ham ignorance)?
These repeaters are only on 2m, I MAY have a 10m rig by then, but not promises. If we can manage to get a couple of HF radios, we could put one at base and have one in the field.
I really think these repeaters will give us the coverage we need though.
Thank you Mtn Man and shane for doing all the prep work. I wouldn't mind making a small donation to help with the maintenance costs of these repeaters.
Awesome info Mtn Man.
I'm building the coverage map now, I'm using a 5mi max radius for HT, 10mi for Mobile, and a 25mi repeater coverage. This won't be perfect, but will give us a general idea of what we should be able to do.
The Engineer Mtn repeater should give us coverage of almost all the runs.
Coverage maps will come today
Looking forward to seeing the coverage map. Thanks guys. BTW FJ-Ollie has a HF machine amongst others in his mobile service station he calls the FJ. It sounds like we will be covered well.
Ollie also has two 8800 portable rigs set up in cases for quick setup of a base station. He's away on business again but I'm sure he'll be into this thread bigtime.
Caveats:
I've included the 25mi radius from the Engineer Mtn repeater, but coverage will be VERY spotty at that range.
The 5mi coverage (red) and 10mi coverage (yellow) for the repeaters will, obviously, depend on radio, antenna, and exact location. This map is to give us a general idea of what we should expect.
I'm quite sure that with a good mobile/base station in Ouray and (hopefully) 1 HAM per group, we will be able to have good comm back to base pretty much all the time.
For location reporting, I've attempted to contact "The Spot" (Home - SPOT Satellite Messenger) to sponsor the event, without luck. Maybe Jason or someone else on the committee could contact them. They're 'check-in' feature could be AWESOME for this type of event.
Great map Shane, it looks like we should have very good coverage. All of those repeaters are linked too? That's awesome. I guess we should post a thread asking for people who are HAMS to post their runs times, and days info this way we will know which runs will have HAMs and which runs don't.
Caveats:
I've included the 25mi radius from the Engineer Mtn repeater, but coverage will be VERY spotty at that range.
The 5mi coverage (red) and 10mi coverage (yellow) for the repeaters will, obviously, depend on radio, antenna, and exact location. This map is to give us a general idea of what we should expect.
I'm quite sure that with a good mobile/base station in Ouray and (hopefully) 1 HAM per group, we will be able to have good comm back to base pretty much all the time.
For location reporting, I've attempted to contact "The Spot" (Home - SPOT Satellite Messenger) to sponsor the event, without luck. Maybe Jason or someone else on the committee could contact them. They're 'check-in' feature could be AWESOME for this type of event.
Thank you Mtn Man and shane for doing all the prep work. I wouldn't mind making a small donation to help with the maintenance costs of these repeaters.
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