I would love to do something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyS5qm60gk
But the only mountains around here are these...
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I would love to do something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyS5qm60gk
But the only mountains around here are these...
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Chris.... make an excuse to come to Tucson..... mountaintopping is fun
As soon as my sisters wedding is over in October, Kenny and I are planning some serious road trips. I have a Jeep, and a tent, and by God I do plan to use them extremely soon!!!!
See if you can get permission to set up a rooftop DXpedition on one of those buildings.
A trip up to Mt Lemmon would blow his mind. We used to do keggers there.Quote:
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Broadcasting?
I did one better. I MOVED to a mountaintop so I can VHF Contest from home!
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More like broadchasing.
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One of our locals has a repeater on top of the tallest. I wonder if he'd bring me up there?...
There's a phrase that's older than dirt; it doesn't hurt to ask. There is a catch though, mountains, towers and tall buildings aren't called vertical real estate for nothing; you'll be smack dab in the middle of an intense RF field generated by an antenna farm. RF exposure limits pertain to receivers more than to you, you'll need bandpass filters to get rid of intermod that would render the effort futile. It seems like the best products come from Canada, a diplexer made to my specs by Tin Lee works better than expected but what you need are bandpass filters and my DCI-146-4H I still have kicking around somewhere fixed a knotty pager problem for me quick and easy. When I set up my first station 2M was crap from end to end thanks to a 250W Pager a block away. That filter killed it clean and solved my problem. I quickly discovered the best mountain tops were antenna farms, brought the filter along and again it was clear sailing. They have a filter for whatever ails you, here are the stock Amateur filters submitted for your approval... in The RF Twilight Zone.
http://www.dci.ca/?Section=Products&SubSection=Amateur
When you get to the roof it just might look something like this familiar building so be a boy scout and be prepared.