#psota — Public Fediverse posts

Up early so I should be able to make the 0800 #N8DUY weekday morning roundtable on 2 meters. 145.15- PL100 in Ann Arbor, the repeater has very wide coverage over SE Michigan.

The plan is to bicycle into town, then go up to the top of the parking structure that is next door to the coworking space I belong to, and operate from there.

Previously in parking structures on the air, my notes from 2014

https://vielmetti.typepad.com/w8emv/2014/07/operating-notes-using-a-parking-structure-to-great-advantage.html

#psota

@n2rj

parking structures on the air (#PSOTA). drive or take the elevator to the top of the ramp, point your antenna far away, see what you can get!

amazing how few milliwatts on an HT you need to hit a 2 meter repeater when it's actually line of sight, even if it's completely unreachable on the same rig from ground level at the same location.

also planning more #BicycleMobile operations, still need to sort out a reasonable battery + antenna + rig for that but I have the bike ready to go.

Fantastic morning 2m net on #N8DUY

From the 8th floor of the parking structure I have clear line of sight to the repeater and got good reports at 30 milliwatts! Bumped it up to 300 mw and it was full quieting.

Thanks Jim #W8STX for running the net.

Now inside with the morning coffee.

Scheming to do AREDN portable next as there is line of sight to a station there as well.

#PSOTA (parking structures on the air) 🅿️ :radio_handheld: