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<font face="Arial">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.<br>
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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.......<br>
<br>
Thanks for posting the ad. <br>
<br>
73 Marshall K5QE<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/29/2013 8:23 AM, Scott Dickson,
W5WZ wrote:<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Marshall-K5QE
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:13 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [LCC] Decommissioning two 8 band rovers....<br>
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<font face="Arial">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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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== <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://kcvhfgridbandits.com/kc_vhf_grid_bandits_042.htm">http://kcvhfgridbandits.com/kc_vhf_grid_bandits_042.htm</a>.
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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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. <br>
<br>
73 Marshall K5QE<br>
Phone is 409-787-3830<br>
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