The Virginia QSO Party offers hams of all capabilities and license levels the opportunity to participate big. The usual HF opportunities avail themselves to Generals to Extras. However, the high three-point-per-QSO nature of mobile QSOs make FM voice operation with 2M and 440 mobile radios effective.
My welder friend and I were examining the possibility of making the One Person Antenna Raiser (OPAR)…
…and described here…
If you are considering operating as expedition for the Virginia QSO Party you have choices. You could rent a van, bolt in a table, bring along a portable mast, throw in a generator, chairs, heater and you are all set. Or if you are like me and have to settle for doing something with a Taurus get these things:
If you are planning on Expedition for the Virginia QSO Party you are certainly planning for Near Vertical Incident Skywave (NVIS) communications on the lower HF bands. Great. The good news is you do not have to have your antenna wire up all that high to have a workable NVIS antenna. Great.
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