Ham radio operators N2JMH Jim and N2WVK Todd constructed this amateur radio contest ROVER. Roving and hilltoping during contests won the rover many awards. the rover was equiped to cover all bands from 50mhz to 10 ghz and lazer light contacts. We operated modes didital,cw,fm and ssb phone. There is 2 full stations to accomidate 2 operators all bands. 3 rotating masts allowed for multiple contacts fast while grid hopping. One stack was fully rotatable while on the fly and multiple vertical antennas were switched for mobile operation. Miacom dishes for 5 and 10Ghz with homebrew copper waterpipe feeds yealded many u wave contacts. The surplus military 3 section crank up masts were cranked up using a dewalt drill. Once parked it took about 2 minutes to set up and begin high power long distance beaming of our signal. Heavy duty alternator and marine batteries allowd for high power amps on all bands. This video was recorded by Ev W2EV and was a snow coverd hilltop in western NY.
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