[LCC] FW: Decommissioning two 8 band rovers....

[Marshall-K5QE]

Hello to the LCC....The response to this post was amazing!!  I had 
advertised these vans two or three times last year and got no interest 
at all....NONE.  This time, I have a list of 9 guys that really want 
one.  Makes no sense, but I could sell a dozen of these if I had 
them....So, I would say that the vans are already spoken for.

We will have a lot of the gear available that was used in the rovers.  
We will have transverters, amplifiers, antennas, and other such stuff.  
Of course, it is VHF stuff, not HF stuff.  But maybe some of the LCC 
guys will get interested in VHF someday.......

Thanks for posting the ad.

73 Marshall K5QE

On 3/29/2013 8:23 AM, Scott Dickson, W5WZ wrote:
>
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> *From:* Marshall-K5QE [mailto:k5qe at k5qe.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:13 PM
> *To:* undisclosed-recipients:
> *Subject:* [LCC] Decommissioning two 8 band rovers....
>
> Hello everyone interested in VHF/UHF roving.  I have decided to 
> decommission two of my 8 band rovers.  This means that I will have a 
> lot of "stuff" available for those that might be interested.  I don't 
> have a complete list of all the transverters, amps, preamps, relays, 
> and other stuff at this time, but I will try to get that soon.
>
> I want to start by offering for sale one of my TV vans that we used 
> for two of the K5N grid DXpeditions.  This is a TV van with the 40ft 
> Wil-Burt pneumatic mast, the air compressor for the mast, and a 6KW 
> Onan generator.  The van is a Ford F350 with the big gasoline engine.  
> Mileage is high, as you might expect, because the TV station did not 
> let these go until they were "well used".  We put this vehicle into 
> the shop and "cleaned up, fixed up, and painted up" anything that 
> needed repair.  The van runs very well and the Onan does too.  
> Currently, the Onan is 110VAC only, but can be rewired to be 240VAC if 
> you wish.  Any competent Onan shop can do this for you or you can try 
> it yourself.  In any case, there is plenty of power there.
>
> I put new oversize Michelin truck tires on the van in 2010 and those 
> tires have only had about 5K miles on them since new(the two 
> DXpeditions below).  We have cleaned all the TV station "junk" out of 
> the van and built a small operating table into the cabin behind the 
> two front captain's chairs.  The cabin has 3 19" rack panels and a 
> power distribution panel.  You can put a TON of really good gear into 
> the racks.  What comes to mind are 4 rack panel Lunar-Link amps for 6M 
> thru 432.  That would be a killer rover / portable station!!  We have 
> put two Type N bulkhead feedthroughs in the roof where the old TV 
> microwave cables entered.  There is also a 2M FM cable that runs to an 
> NMO mount and 2M FM vertical on the top of the truck.  I will let the 
> 2M FM antenna go with the truck(I want everyone to know how big a 
> sacrifice that is....HI).
>
> On the Grid Bandits web pages(created and maintained by JD-N0IRS), 
> there are numerous pictures of the first K5N DXpedition trying to get 
> to DL88.  We could not get there, because the road in the Big Bend 
> National park was washed out in 3 places, so we did DL79 and 
> DL89....but anyway follow this link== 
> http://kcvhfgridbandits.com/kc_vhf_grid_bandits_042.htm. Then on the 
> left hand side, click on K5N DL79/89 2010 purple button.  When that 
> page loads, there is a bright yellow strip on the right with picture 
> albums.  The TV van is in many of those pictures.
>
> In 2011, we took the TV van on the Great Winter DXpedition of 2011 to 
> the DL99/DM90 grid line.  If you click the blue button on the left, 
> you will see the web pages for that expedition. Again, on the right is 
> a bright yellow strip with three photo albums of pics from that 
> DXpedition.  There are several pictures of the van, now sporting a 2 x 
> 6M5X antenna with full AZ / EL(you DON'T get that).  There are good 
> pictures there of the inside of the van and the operating table.
>
> Bill-N5YA milled out a special rotor fitting that mounts on the top of 
> the mast.  That will allow you to mount a Ham 4 or TailTwister rotor.  
> I think that he also drilled it for the M2 Orion 2800 rotor, but I am 
> not sure about that.  The special rotor mount goes with the van.  It 
> would cost you a lot of $$ to get this made at some local shop.  You 
> can see that in some of the pictures.
>
> A club or a rover group could make a serious rover out of this TV 
> van.  We have proved here that elevating the antennas 40ft, makes a 
> HUGE difference in the number of QSOs made--especially on the higher 
> microwave bands.  With the pneumatic mast, you would just arrive at a 
> new grid, pump up the mast, run your scheds, lower the mast(try to 
> remember this part), and drive to the next grid.  Total setup time 
> would be a minute or two to pump up the mast.  This is the ultimate in 
> rover vehicles.
>
> Now, what is the bad news??  I want $2500 for the TV van, with mast, 
> air pump, and Onan.  I am willing to make arrangements to deliver the 
> van.  If you want to come over here and check the unit out, that will 
> be fine too.  We can put you up here at the K5QE contest station or 
> the N5YA contest station and save the motel bills.  If you want to 
> talk about this van, please call me and we can "cuss and discuss" it.
>
> 73 Marshall K5QE
> Phone is 409-787-3830
>
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