Dear Hams

 

Yes we do love to play with 5 whiskey and this is what I learned being a ham to hit with the weakest link and improvise. Yes we did hit you before and will hit you again with 5 whiskey ;)

 

Last night AP2SBA came to my (ARS-Delta) QTH to check my new antenna set up. We had nothing to test as already R4 Lima repeater was 5 9. We switched frequencies to R1 and started getting clicks and beeps on my handy. It was late night 2300hrs. We heard a call "ARS-Hotel calling and Standing by". Cant share the level of excitement and joy on establishing a contact with my co Aliens. The QSO went for good 1 hour non stop. Yes we were transmitting only 5 watts and signal report was 5 7 a good readable signal. After 20mins of QSO we attached an Amplifier giving output of 35watts to handy and signal report was 5 9 loud and clear both rx tx. And we continued transmitting for another 40mins when AP2EE joined us from Indiana. Just to remind you all that we did hit R1 from Lima area with 5watts from home brew yagi but this time we were using an Omni directional antenna. 

Here is list of junk we were using in Lima area.

. Handy talkie Icom V80 not fully charged.

. Dual band antenna Diamond X50.

. Mast 31feet bamboo. From ground height of antenna is 55feet.

. Cable Coleman RG213 80feet

. PL259 connecter Diamond gold plated.

. Amplifier Mirage Dual band for HT.

. Power supply-car battery.

Thank you AP2SBA, ARSHOTEL, ARSALPHA and AP2EE for getting up in late hrs of Ramazan for this successful test. 

 

Now I dont find a reason why R1 can not be connected to R4 directly. if we can make a contact with 5watts in poor propogation times then 50 watts of Repeaters should do the magic!

 

Sleep tight because new hams are awake.

 

73s

ARS-DELTA and AP2SBA