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+<head>
+ <title>CODE Rover Activities </title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<center><h1> CODE Rover Activities </h1></center>
+
+Roving is the act of running a portable VHF/UHF station, often in a contest.
+For ARRL and similar contests, points are awarded for contacting other
+stations, and
+points multipliers are awarded for each "grid" worked. Since many grids do
+not have permanent VHF/UHF/Microwave amateur stations, contest organizers
+often provide a modest benefit in the form of additional multipliers to
+stations that "go mobile" and operate from multiple grids.
+
+<p>
+
+We think operating in contests as a rover is a lot of fun, and it helps get
+around the fact that our homes are not ideal VHF/UHF/Microwave locations!
+Keeping several bands worth of radios and antennas working while bouncing
+around in rural areas can be quite a challenge... but it keeps us from
+getting bored!
+
+<p>
+
+<a href="QSL-small.jpg"> <img src="QSL-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<p>
+
+The picture on our QSL card, above, was taken by WD0FHG in DM89, during the
+August ARRL UHF contest in 1999. Click on the image to see a bigger version.
+Have duct tape, will rove!
+
+<center><h1> Contest Diary </h1></center>
+
+<h2> 2000 </h2>
+<ul>
+<li> <a href="2000-08/">August ARRL UHF Contest</a>
+<li> 432 Spring Sprint </a>
+<li> 2m Spring Sprint </a>
+<li> <a href="2000-01/">January ARRL VHF Sweepstakes</a>
+</ul>
+<h2> 1999 </h2>
+<ul>
+<li> <a href="1999-09/">September ARRL VHF QSO Party</a>
+<li> <a href="1999-08/">August ARRL UHF Contest</a>
+<li> <a href="1999-06/">June ARRL VHF QSO Party</a>
+<li> <a href="1999-04.2m/">April 2m Sprint</a>
+<li> <a href="1999-01/">January ARRL VHF Sweepstakes</a>
+</ul>
+<h2> 1998 </h2>
+<ul>
+<li> <a href="1998-09/">September ARRL VHF QSO Party</a>
+</ul>
+
+<center><h1> Rover Resources </h1></center>
+
+<h2> Equipment Vendors </h2>
+
+Here are a few of the places we've bought equipment for our roving operations.
+
+<ul>
+<li> <a href="http://www.downeastmicrowave.com/">Down East Microwave</a> <br>
+ We like DEM! Their transverters are good mojo, and they're very
+ supportive. They also sell antennas from Directive Systems and others,
+ and they make a bunch of neat widgets for interfacing transverters.
+
+<li> <a href="http://www.directivesystems.com">Directive Systems</a> <br>
+ We've bought some K1FO yagis from these folks, and are completely
+ satisfied.
+
+<li> <a href="mailto:w6oal@aol.com">Olde Antenna Lab</a> <br>
+ Dave's a neat guy, and he makes nice antennas. Our 6m antenna and our
+ 2m omni came from Olde.
+
+<li> <a href="http://www.ebay.com">eBay</a> <br>
+ The premier online auction site. Be careful here, but from time to
+ time we've found good deals on gear in the ham radio and test
+ equipment categories.
+</ul>
+<h2> Other Information </h2>
+<ul>
+<li> <a href="http://www.arrl.org/contests/">ARRL Contest Information</a>
+<li> <a href="http://www.rf.org/crms/">Cedar Rapids Microwave Society</a> <br>
+ These guys get much of the credit for our getting started in roving.
+ Rod K0DAS and friends hosted a rover session at the 1998 Central States
+ VHF Society meeting in Kansas City that gave us a bunch of ideas and
+ the confidence that we could "just do it"...
+</ul>
+<hr>
+<address>
+<a href="http://www.gag.com/~bdale/">Bdale Garbee</A>,
+$Id: index.html,v 1.8 2000/02/16 04:59:02 bdale Exp $
+</address>
+</body>
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