[MLB-WIRELESS] Mountain Radio Challenge

[Will Lanigan]

bah you people just dont know how its done... take motorbikes with your
laptop+inverter+radio in your backpack and then set up shop at the
destination of your choice hooking up the inverter to the motorbike - if
your bike has a battery you can leave the bike off, otherwise let it idle :D

this is a leet way to do some testing and you can set it all up very quickly
and test wireless reception at many different locations in a short period of
time.
yes... i do know this from experiance :)
mwahahahahah that was the most kewl wireless testing setup i've ever
witnessed, the motorbike owns

(i went testing in the middle of the bush and had to go for a 1hr ride on
some ghay cut up 4x4 tracks :/  twas kewl though coz i got many successful
links with just 2 cantennas over a 5km distance - on green signal too!)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Langdon" <tlangdon at atctraining.com.au>
To: "Wireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Mountain Radio Challenge


>
> > > Dandy's the worst, because of proximity.
> >
> >
> > HELL YES
>
> :)
>
> > >
> > > 3 hours country drive a big difference to city drive. :)
> >
> > Hell Yes
>
> 3 hours in the country seems a LOT less hassle than 1 hour in the city.
:-)
> >
> > >
> > > > Generators are only about .....I think $65/day.
> > >
> > > Bit overkill for a laptop.  I could spend that or not much
> > more on an
> > > inverter for keeps! :-)
> >
> > Just for a lappy ...yes.........
>
> Yeah.  Sounds rather funny hehe
>
> >
> > We tend to hire a 3kva for the weekend and run the computer
> > gear plus 2 or
> > three radios and usually a foot warmer for good measure....oh
> > and flouro
> > lights and whatever other electrical equipment we can pack in the
> > cars.......,over.  :-)
>
> Hehe, we use a lightweight approach.  I'm very well setup for portable
work
> anyway.  As a test, we actually "split" our station for a while and
compared
> the carpark performance with spots I knew were the best.  I took a 27 MHz
> handheld, UHF, 12V  SLA, UHF Yagi and home made 27 MHz 1/2 wave mounted in
a
> fibreglass telescopic squid pole.
>
> On 27 MHz, the two stations were roughly equivalent.  On UHF, the portable
> one ruled! :-)  As they say in real estate - location, location, location.
> :-)
>
> A lappy and inverter would make a nice addition and something to carry the
> lot in. :-)
>
> Portable operation - more specifically, lightweight portable operation,
> where the only access is by foot, is my speciality.  I hope to continue
that
> tradition into 802.11b one of these MRCs :-)
>
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