Quote Sentiments like the one below make me think that quite a few people have not yet encountered HFpack, one of the largest ham radio interest groups.
To the contrary. We have studied widely on portable operations. As we live in a remote area of Australia HF comms is not a novelty, it is absolutely vital to assist S and R people to find you when something happens. It is not a game. We (Australia) gave the world (the UN also) the Codan and Barrett radios and antennas. Australia gave the US military some sophisticated communications technology and the testing of this type of equipment is done in Outback Australia, not a convenient few hundred square miles of *desert* and because we live in an area such as this we do practice all types of HF mobile and portable comms. Backpacking around these parts can be quite difficult and dangerous, we have had many deaths over the years because communications were either inadequate or a lack of proper planning was not done correctly or worse, not done at all. I repeat, I do not expect anyone I know would be so foolish as to enter my property talking on ssb @ 100W if they bothered to look up the tower and saw the HF Quad (5 bands) and had any anticipation of a warm greeting at the door. The next multi-op operation by way of *remote* will be at Conjuboy Station (Con_jew_boy) (Ranch) which is large enough that it is marked on the road maps of Queensland. We will be running: K3 and FT-897D 10/15/20m 4 element triband yagi 80M full wave loop 40m full wave loop 30m full wave loop FT-847 6m 5 element wide spaced yagi 2m 9 element yagi 70cm 13 element yagi All within a small clearing beside a creek fed by a natural spring. I do not think we will have any issues this time either, again due to planning the operation. We all have a wide view of the hobby and I for one respect that, however I believe that NO mod is required and if done by FW then some very intense testing will need to be done as we have seen with the latest FW Beta releases the testing period was rushed and several changes had to be done. A single FW change can be fine for the intended change but can lead to problems for many owners who had no need for the change to be done. Gary Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
