{"id":10,"date":"2014-03-23T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T10:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ffc3337d-0856-41f8-b13b-ea4b26840582"},"modified":"2016-03-21T06:52:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:52:05","slug":"21-23-march-2014-fmca-amateur-radio-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"21-23 March 2014: FMCA Amateur Radio Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right after the FMCA convention, we headed across the street to the Fair Harbor RV Park<\/a> for a gathering of the FMCA Amateur Radio Club. What a great time! Fun people, interesting conversation, and a lot of time to talk about how to operate portable from the MH.<\/p>\n

My radio setup consisted of an IC-718 (temporarily, pending moving my IC-706MkII-G out of the truck), an LDG AT100-Pro autotuner, and a Samlex 35 amp power supply, all of which was mounted in a custom box that also serves as my portable setup, such as on Field Day.
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\nThe setup fits quite nicely in the fold-out desk on the passenger side (my computer goes in front of the box) and I simply run the coax out through the window and to the antenna. This works just fine and, with headphones, I don’t disturb the XYL.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking that using a simple hamstick dipole<\/a> (or maybe a BuddiPole<\/a>) is the way to go … acceptable performance, no worry about insolvable RF ground problems, and easy enough setup and takedown. I have a 15′ expandable painter’s pole with the hamstick adapter<\/a> mounted at the top. So, all I would have to do is screw in the hamsticks, attach the coax, and mount the painter’s pole in the flag pole mount already attached to the MH ladder.<\/p>\n

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I operated that way on 20m for a few hours and got about a dozen contacts, including W1AW-New Mexico (!). 40m didn’t seem to work as well (barely made contact with the RV Service Net<\/a>), but that may have been an imbalance in the two sides of the antenna. Further investigation to follow. After talking to folks here who know a lot more than I do, I’m convinced that is indeed my best option, at least for a while.<\/p>\n

All things considered, I’m OK.<\/p>\n

Overall statistics for the combined FMCA Convention\/ARC trip:
\n283 miles
\nFair Harbor RV Park cost: $44 x 2 nights
\nFuel costs: $167.34
\nAverage mileage: 6.72 mpg (only towed 1\/2-way due to problem with transmission pump)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right after the FMCA convention, we headed across the street to the Fair Harbor RV Park for a gathering of the FMCA Amateur Radio Club. What a great time! Fun people, interesting conversation, and a lot of time to talk about how to operate portable from the MH. My radio setup consisted of an IC-718 … Continue reading “21-23 March 2014: FMCA Amateur Radio Club”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmca","category-ham-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68mhx-a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}