After a little deliberation, I have decided to use my bicycle as my mode of transportation for today's RaDAR (Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio) Challenge. I am fortunate to have several city parks nearby that I can utilize as operating positions. Since my Icom IC-705 is in for repair (disappointing story), I will be using my Recent RS-918. It has been a while since I used this little rig, so I figured I'd give it a little excercise today. My antenna will be an endfed and 9:1 unun. I will be a Category B station meaning I will be operating for 4 hours.
I plan to start at 9am at my home. I will then bike to Memorial Park for my second location.
The next planned stop will be Kinsaul Park, one of my favorite places to operate and a venue for many of my past YouTube videos.
If I make it this far in the challenge, I will cross State Road 77 to arrive at Sheffield Park.
From there, I will bike back to the house.
Each segment is just over 2 KM, the minimum distance needed according to the RaDAR rules. I will change locations once I have made my required 5 contacts at each location. This should be fun today.
If you are interested in RaDAR, you can find out more about it by reading Eddie's ZS6BNE Blog here:
https://zs6bne.wordpress.com/2021/10/11/the-new-radar/
73
-Bob
